Source: WMO
Context: The World Meteorological Congress – the supreme decision-making body of WMO, approved (in its 19th session) a new greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring initiative – Global Greenhouse Gas Watch.
Background: In 2022, the WMO Executive Council decided to develop an architecture for a global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure to build on and expand WMO’s long-standing activities in GHG monitoring.
The Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W): It aims to establish internationally coordinated monitoring of GHG fluxes (top-down) to support the provision of actionable information to the UNFCCC Parties and other stakeholders
Need:
- Currently, most GHG monitoring undertaken globally relies heavily on research capabilities and research funding.
- The intermittent nature of research funding and the competitive processes used for its allocation makes sustained global monitoring difficult to achieve.
