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Tracking Greenhouse Gases: 3 Factors for Successful National Inventories

Thomas Damassa — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:08:19 -0400

This blog post was co-authored with Soffia Alarcon-Diaz, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy program.

Measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) across different…

National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Can Help Countries Curb Climate Change

Thomas Damassa — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:17:40 -0400

At WRI, we like to say that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” For managing and mitigating climate change, one of the most fundamental measurements is a periodic inventory of the problem’s root cause: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from…

Transparency and Accountability (MRV) in the Durban Climate Deal

Remi Moncel — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:11:03 -0500

The Durban climate deal reached in December 2011 marked an important milestone in the design of a system to measure, report, and verify (MRV) countries’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their actions to reduce them. The deal succeeded in making…

Ambition in the Durban Climate Deal

Kelly Levin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:36:18 -0500

The UNFCCC’s ultimate goal is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a “level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” Thus, the most compelling measure of success of the Durban…

Building the Foundation for REDD+: Recommendations for Durban on Forest Monitoring

Loretta Cheung — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:09:51 -0500

Though forests play an essential role in international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the development of systems to monitor deforestation and forest degradation has been slow. This is due to the…

Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV): The Task at Hand at COP17 Durban

Remi Moncel — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:05:15 -0500

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This is one reason it is important to track countries’ individual and aggregate progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Next week, COP17 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…

Looking to Durban: China’s Climate Change Policy Progress Since Cancun

Deborah Seligsohn — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:50:34 -0500

This post was written with Angel Hsu and originally appeared on ChinaFAQs.org.

As its negotiators…