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ArticleAmbio2020

Refining national greenhouse gas inventories.

Leehi Yona, Benjamin Cashore, Robert B Jackson, Jean Ometto, Mark A Bradford

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Article in Ambio, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Leehi YonaSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. leehi@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-7313
Benjamin CashoreLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 259772, Singapore.
Robert B JacksonDepartment of Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Room 140, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-7147
Jean OmettoCenter for Earth Systems Science, National Institute for Space Research, CCST/INPEAv dos Astronautas, 1.758, São José dos Campos, SP, CEP 12227-010, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4221-1039
Mark A BradfordSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of greenhouse gas inventories cannot be overstated: the process of producing inventories informs strategies that governments will use to meet emissions reduction targets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leads an effort to develop and refine internationally agreed upon methodologies for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals. We argue that these guidelines are not equipped to handle the task of developing national greenhouse gas inventories for most countries. Inventory guidelines are vital to implementing climate action, and we highlight opportunities to improve their timeliness and accuracy. Such reforms should provide the means to better understand and advance the progress countries are making toward their Paris commitments. Now is the time to consider challenges posed by the current process to develop the guidelines, and to avail the policy community of recent major advances in quantitative and expert synthesis to overhaul the process and thereby better equip multi-national efforts to limit climate change.

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Greenhouse GasesClimate ChangeGreenhouse EffectGreenhouse GasesClimate changeForest soil carbonGlobal carbon cycleGreenhouse gas emissions inventoriesIntergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeUnited Nations Paris Agreement

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PMID31981086
PMCPMC7413961

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