US National Academy report on Greenhouse Gas Information for Decision Making

<p>The National Academy of Sciences convened a committee to generate a report titled &#8220;Development of a Framework for Evaluating Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making&#8221;. The report:</p><p>&#160;</p><ul><li><strong> </strong>Described approaches used to develop global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories, including the use of surveys</li> <li><strong> </strong>Discussed the potential uses and limitations of these approaches</li> <li><strong> </strong>Provided a framework to evaluate emissions information and inventories</li> <li><strong> </strong>Presented several case studies to demonstrate how the framework could be applied to evaluate emissions information and inventory approaches and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement for each case study.</li> <li><strong> </strong>Identified ways to improve methodological transparency, sustainability and continuity of relevant observations, and product confidence in global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories</li> </ul><p>&#160;</p><p>To accomplish this the committee identified a series of &#8220;pillars&#8221; that were deemed ideal characteristics of GHG inventories for decisionmaking. Three dominant GHG inventory development approaches were identified from the existing work and ranked within the series of pillars. The committee made a series of recommendations for continued development of inventories to enhance their quality and utility to decisionmakers.</p><p>In this presentation I will describe the major content of the report, describing the evaluation matrix and a summary of the committee&#8217;s recommendations.</p>