Organization:Climate TRACE
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Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions)[1] is an independent group which monitors and publishes greenhouse gas emissions within weeks.[2] It launched in 2021 before COP26,[3] and improves monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of both carbon dioxide and methane.[4][5] The group monitors sources such as coal mines and power station smokestacks worldwide,[6] with satellite data (but not their own satellites) and artificial intelligence.[7][8]
Time (magazine) named it as one of the hundred best inventions of 2020.[9] Their emissions map is the largest global inventory and interactive map of greenhouse gas emission sources.[10][11][12] According to Kelly Sims Gallagher it could influence the politics of climate change by reducing MRV disputes, and lead to more ambitious climate pledges.[4]
Developed countries' annual reports to the UNFCCC are submitted over a year after the end of the monitored year.[13] Developing countries in the Paris Agreement will submit every two years.[14][15] Some large emitters, such as Iran which has not ratified the agreement, have not submitted a greenhouse gas inventory in the 2020s.[16]
New data was released around the time of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[17]
Methods
Power plant emissions are tracked by training software with supervised learning to combine satellite imagery with other open data, such as government datasets, OpenStreetMap,[18] and company reports.[19] Similarly large ships will be tracked to better understand emissions from international shipping.[20]
Members
(As of 2023) the coalition consists of:[21]
- Nonprofits: CarbonPlan, Earthrise Alliance, Global Energy Monitor, Hudson Carbon, OceanMind, Rocky Mountain Institute, TransitionZero, and WattTime
- Companies: Blue Sky Analytics and Hypervine
- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
See also
References
- ↑ Gore, Al (December 12, 2020). "Opinion | Al Gore: Where I Find Hope". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/opinion/sunday/biden-climate-change-al-gore.html.
- ↑ "Climate TRACE to track real-time global carbon emissions". Yale Climate Connections. August 17, 2020. http://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/climate-trace-to-track-real-time-global-carbon-emissions/.
- ↑ Freedman, Andrew. "Al Gore's Climate TRACE tracking group finds vast undercounts of emissions" (in en). https://www.axios.com/global-carbon-emissions-inventory-surprises-cb7f220a-6dfd-4f88-9349-5c9ffa0817e9.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roberts, David (July 16, 2020). "The entire world's carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time". https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/16/21324662/climate-change-air-pollution-tracking-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trace-coalition.
- ↑ "Methane: A Threat to People and Planet". Rocky Mountain Institute. July 7, 2021. https://rmi.org/methane-a-threat-to-people-and-planet/.
- ↑ "Transcript: The Path Forward: Al Gore on Climate and the Economy". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/04/22/transcript-path-forward-al-gore-climate-economy/.
- ↑ Puko, Timothy (April 13, 2021). "John Kerry Says U.S. Will Hold China to Account on Climate Pledges". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/kerry-says-u-s-will-hold-beijing-to-account-on-climate-pledges-11618338675.
- ↑ Peters, Adele (July 15, 2020). "This Al Gore-supported project uses AI to track the world's emissions in near real time". https://www.fastcompany.com/90527328/this-al-gore-supported-project-uses-ai-to-track-the-worlds-emissions-in-near-real-time.
- ↑ "The 100 Best Inventions of 2020". https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/.
- ↑ Cockburn, Harry (9 November 2022). "Global oil and gas emissions ‘up to three times higher than companies claim’" (in en). The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/global-gas-oil-emissions-rise-b2221249.html.
- ↑ "Emissions Map - Climate TRACE" (in en). https://climatetrace.org/map.
- ↑ "News - Climate TRACE" (in en). https://climatetrace.org/news/more-than-70000-of-the-highest-emitting-greenhouse-gas.
- ↑ "4. Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Inventories in the Enhanced Transparency Framework". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. https://unfccc.int/enhanced-transparency-framework#eq-4.
- ↑ "Reporting and Review under the Paris Agreement". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/transparency-and-reporting/reporting-and-review-under-the-paris-agreement. "Parties under the Paris Agreement are required to submit their first biennial transparency report (BTR1) and national inventory report, if submitted as a stand-alone report, in accordance with the MPGs, at the latest by 31 December 2024"
- ↑ Anna Schulz, Fernanda Alcobé. "Implementing the Paris Agreement: LDC gaps and needs in greenhouse gas inventory reporting". Publications Library. https://pubs.iied.org/20086iied. "Developing countries update their GHG inventories, mitigation actions, needs and support received within their BUR"
- ↑ "Documents and decisions: Iran". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. p. 2. https://unfccc.int/documents?search2=&search3=&f%5B0%5D=country:938.
- ↑ Ma, Michelle (2022-07-22). "This Al Gore-backed coalition is trying to hold climate polluters accountable" (in en). https://www.protocol.com/climate/climate-trace-al-gore-emissions.
- ↑ "Organised Editing/Activities/Climate TRACE – OpenStreetMap Wiki". OpenStreetMap. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Climate_TRACE.
- ↑ "Satellites – Watttime". https://www.watttime.org/solutions/satellite-solutions/.
- ↑ "Al Gore spearheads new initiative to track and publish every ship's carbon footprint". Splash247. July 17, 2020. https://splash247.com/al-gore-spearheads-new-initiative-to-track-and-publish-every-ships-carbon-footprint/.
- ↑ "Home". Climate Trace. https://www.climatetrace.org/.
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