Geneva, March 6 (AFP\/APP): The United Nations announced on Monday that it had taken a step towards filling a key gap in the fight against climate change, with plans for standardised, real-time tracking of global greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has come up with a new Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure that aims to provide better ways of measuring planet-warming pollution in order to help inform policy choices.<\/p>\n
The WMO’s new platform will integrate space-based and surface-based observing systems, and seek to clarify uncertainties about where greenhouse gas emissions end up.<\/p>\n
It should result in far faster and sharper data than ever before on how the planet’s atmosphere is changing.<\/p>\n
“The goal is to have a fully operational capability in five years,” said Lars Peter Riishojgaard, deputy director of the WMO’s infrastructure department.<\/p>\n
The system “will be able to show you on a map: this is where it (greenhouse gas) came in, this is where it came out. So you can see, grid cell by grid cell on a global scale, where that actually happened.<\/p>\n
“We can do this in near real time,” he told a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geneva, March 6 (AFP\/APP): The United Nations announced on Monday that it had taken a step towards filling a key gap in the fight against climate change, with plans for standardised, real-time tracking of global greenhouse gases. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has come up […]<\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-environment-news"],"yoast_head":"\n