UN/Austria Symposium 2022 | Space for climate action training
Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 Budgets to Support the Global Stocktake
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Training provider: NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Programme (ARSET)
Description: This three-part webinar series will introduce bottom-up and top-down methods for tracking emissions and removals of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from the atmosphere.
Part 1: Tracking Greenhouse Gases
Part 2: Creating Top-Down Atmospheric Budgets of CO2 and CH4 on Policy-Relevant Scales
Part 3: Top-Down Budgets and Bottom-Up Inventories to Support the Global Stocktake
This training will explore how to combine this information to produce a more complete and transparent global stocktake, and support efforts to reduce net emissions and mitigate their impact on the climate.
Demonstrations will be provided on how top-down atmospheric budgets of CO2 and CH4 can be derived from atmospheric measurements and inverse models to produce a transparent description of their emissions and removals. Participants will also be introduced to pilot products and how information contained in these top-down atmospheric products can supplement bottom-up inventory products to assess the accuracy and completeness of emissions reports on regional, national, and local scales.
Objective: By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
- Recognize the need to monitor CO2, CH4, and other greenhouse gases to support efforts to reduce net emissions and mitigate their impact on climate
- Describe how top-down CO2 and CH4 budgets can be derived using atmospheric measurements and inverse models
- Relate how the products and methods described can be combined with bottom-up inventories to identify opportunities for improving greenhouse gases (GHG) inventories to support future Global Stocktakes.
Format: Participants are required to watch each video/recording of the 3-part training. Participants have the opportunity to submit questions to the trainers via a Google Form and attend one of the live Question and Answer sessions. The videos and Google Form can be found on the ARSET webpage.
Date and time: There will be two rounds of live Question and Answer sessions with the trainer on Tuesday 4 October 2022 to accommodate participants from different time zones. The first session (A) will be 15:00 to 16:00 UTC (11:00 - 12:00 EDT) and the second session (B) will be 21:00 - 22:00 UTC (17:00 - 18:00 EDT).
Target audience: This webinar series is intended for stakeholders at local, regional, and national levels who are interested in managing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement, national inventory developers, and researchers who are interested in developing top-down atmospheric greenhouse gas budgets and working with the inventory development and assessment communities to support the global stocktake process.
Prerequisites: Participants with no experience in remote sensing are encouraged to view these courses prior to the training
Language: English.
Registration: Registration closed on Tuesday, 4 October 2022.
Resources: For more information about the course, please visit the ARSET webpage.
Contact: For additional information, please contact unoosa-events@un.org
