In the race to carbon neutrality it is paramount to ensure that mitigation policies and investment are performing efficiently and abating emissions in the most effective manner, thus, monitoring of such performance will be an indispensable step to guarantee not only successful mitigation actions, but also assertive climate finance flows.
IG3IS combines atmospheric GHG concentration measurements with human-activity data in a modelling and analysis framework to help decision-makers take better informed action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants that reduce air quality. As a user oriented initiative, IG3IS will keep consulting with critical stakeholders the path forward to tailor its capabilities to their needs.
This is the first episode of a series of consultations that will bring together users, scientists and civil society to discuss on how to upscale IG3IS activities across countries, regions, cities and sectors and will reflect on examples where observation-based information was successfully utilized to guide climate action.
26th October 16:00 CET - Cities
WMO tools for Climate Action - IG3IS
- Oksana Tarasova - WMO, Science and Innovation Department
- Phil DeCola - IG3IS Steering Committee Co-Chair
Understanding the information needs for city managers in response to climate change & air quality challenges
- Yann Francoise – City of Paris, Climate Action Plan Manager
- Fouzi Benkhelifa – City Climate Action Expert
- Cesar Dugast – Carbonne4, Business & Cities commitments to Net Zero
- Alessandra Souroujon & Edoardo Bertin - ClimateSeed, Carbon finance
New science-based tools for climate action
- Philippe Ciais - LSCE, What is climate Science based data at city level
- Thomas Lauvaux - LSCE, The Influx Project / A full scale combination of climate science and data techniques
Understanding the landscape
- Cesar Carreño - ICLEI,The existing tools and role of City Networks
The recording of this consultation is now available here
27th October 16:00 CET - Anthropogenic & Natural Methane emissions
WMO tools for Climate Action - IG3IS
- Oksana Tarasova - WMO, Science and Innovation Department
- Phil DeCola - IG3IS Steering Committee Co-Chair
Understanding the information needs for managers in response to climate change & air quality challenges
- Jorn Herner – CARB, Climate Action Plan Manager
- Daniel Palmer – OGCI,Industry response to climate change
Linking science-based monitoring tools to mitigation decision-making
- Stephanie Saunier – Carbon Limits, Making a difference to climate change mitigation
International methane emissions: reducing uncertainties, consolidating data
- Daniel Zavala-Araiza – Environmental Defense Fund
- Manfredi Caltagirone – UN Environment
Civil Society perspective
- David McNeill: Baldwin Hills Conservancy
The recording of this consultation is now available here
The Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS), spearheaded by the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Atmosphere Watch programme, is moving towards a broader implementation, following the approval of its Science Implementation Plan by the WMO Executive Council in June 2018, and building on the outcomes of its first Symposium and User Summit in November 2018.
The IG3IS science implementation plan supports the development and use of inverse modelling for emission estimates and to ensure that these estimates are reliable and consistent representations of what is observed in the atmosphere. Such consistency will be established through the series of the benchmarking exercise following the recommendations of the first workshop in Lund, Sweden, and the second second scientific symposium of the WMO IG3IS held in Paris, France during last October 2019.