LEADER 04440nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910791477603321 005 20230725015535.0 010 $a0-309-15757-9 010 $a1-282-78744-6 010 $a9786612787447 010 $a0-309-15212-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015978 035 $a(EBL)3378646 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430545 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430545 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453243 035 $a(PQKB)11188359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3378646 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3378646 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10405111 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278744 035 $a(OCoLC)923282033 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015978 100 $a20100506d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVerifying greenhouse gas emissions$b[electronic resource] $emethods to support international climate agreements /$fCommittee on Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emiisions ; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate ; Division on Earth and Life Studies ; National Research Council 210 $aWashington $cNational Academies Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (124 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-309-15211-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Front Matter""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 National Inventories of Greenhouse Gas Emissions""; ""3 Measuring Fluxes from Land-Use Sources and Sinks""; ""4 Emissions Estimated from Atmospheric and Oceanic Measurements""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: UNFCCC Inventories of Industrial Processes and Waste""; ""Appendix B: Estimates of Signals Created in the Atmosphere by Emissions""; ""Appendix C: Current Sources of Atmospheric and Oceanic Greenhouse Gas Data"" 327 $a""Appendix D: Technologies for Measuring Emissions by Large Local Sources""""Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations"" 330 3 $a"The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit future greenhouse gas emissions. With such agreements will come the need for all nations to make accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor changes over time. In this context, the present book focuses on the greenhouse gases that result from human activities, have long lifetimes in the atmosphere and thus will change global climate for decades to millennia or more, and are currently included in international agreements. The book devotes considerably more space to CO2 than to the other gases because CO2 is the largest single contributor to global climate change and is thus the focus of many mitigation efforts. Only data in the public domain were considered because public access and transparency are necessary to build trust in a climate treaty. The book concludes that each country could estimate fossil-fuel CO2 emissions accurately enough to support monitoring of a climate treaty. However, current methods are not sufficiently accurate to check these self-reported estimates against independent data or to estimate other greenhouse gas emissions. Strategic investments would, within 5 years, improve reporting of emissions by countries and yield a useful capability for independent verification of greenhouse gas emissions reported by countries."--Publisher's web site. 606 $aGreenhouse gases$xResearch 606 $aGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric 606 $aAtmospheric carbon dioxide 606 $aGreenhouse gases$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aGreenhouse gases$xResearch. 615 0$aGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric. 615 0$aAtmospheric carbon dioxide. 615 0$aGreenhouse gases$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a363.738742 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bCommittee on Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions. 712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bBoard on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. 712 02$aNational Academies Press (U.S.) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791477603321 996 $aVerifying greenhouse gas emissions$93719244 997 $aUNINA