Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Dealing With Uncertainty

ISBN 10: 9400716699 / ISBN 13: 9789400716698

Published by Springer, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Dealing With Uncertainty
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400716699
• ISBN 13: 9789400716698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 15.49W x 23.37H x 2.29D centimeters 15.49 centimeters width by 23.37 centimeters height by 2.29 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.971 pounds

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Synopsis

The assessment of greenhouse gases emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on the international political and scientific agendas. Growing international concern and cooperation regarding the climate change problem have increased the need for policy-oriented solutions to the issue of uncertainty in, and related to, inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The approaches to addressing uncertainty discussed here reflect attempts to improve national inventories, not only for their own sake but also from a wider, systems analytical perspective ― a perspective that seeks to strengthen the usefulness of national inventories under a compliance and/or global monitoring and reporting framework. These approaches demonstrate the benefits of including inventory uncertainty in policy analyses. The authors of the contributed papers show that considering uncertainty helps avoid situations that can, for example, create a false sense of certainty or lead to invalid views of subsystems. This may eventually prevent related errors from showing up in analyses. However, considering uncertainty does not come for free. Proper treatment of uncertainty is costly and demanding because it forces us to make the step from “simple to complex” and only then to discuss potential simplifications. Finally, comprehensive treatment of uncertainty does not offer policymakers quick and easy solutions.

About the Author

The Editors Iain Stewart and Matthias Jonas work for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Their findings provide valuable options to policy makers to shape the future of our changing world. IIASA is independent and funded by scientific institutions in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.