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Workshop on common metrics to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks
03 - 05 Apr. 2012
01:00h - 00:59h
Bonn, Germany
Germany
UN Campus, Langer Eugen
English
0
UN events
Workshop on common metrics to calculate the CO2 equivalence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks
03 - 05 Apr. 2012
01:00h - 00:59h
Bonn, Germany
Germany
UN Campus, Langer Eugen
English

3 – 4 April 2012
UN Campus, Langer Eugen (Room 1916), Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
Bonn, Germany

workshop

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirtieth session (2009), initiated its consideration of common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks.

The SBSTA at its thirty-fourth session (2011) requested, the secretariat to organize, subject to the availability of resources, a workshop on common metrics, to be held in the first half of 2012, with a focus on four major areas: i) uncertainties; ii) new and refined areas or metrics; iii) policy goals; and iv) relationship between policy frameworks and metrics, with the purpose of providing information for further consideration of the SBSTA at its thirty-sixth session (2012).

 Documents


Workshop report

Agenda (153 kB)        

 List of participants (159 kB)  (updated)

 

Information sheet (443 kB)

 

Introduction
Javier Hanna - TC Team Lead, UNFCCC secretariat

 Presentations

 IPCC work on metrics underthe Fifth Assessment Report

Greenhouse gas metrics in the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (407 kB)  
- Thomas Stocker, IPCC WG-I Co-Chair - video conference

WG-III approach to dealing with emission metrics
- Jan Minx, IPCC WG-III TSU Head

  Topic I: Uncertainties

 Emissions metrics for multi-component climate policies: Structural and scientific uncertainties (1131 kB)
 - Jan Fuglestvedt, CICERO - Norway

Uncertainites in implementation of common metrics
- Jolene Cook, European Union

A Study on radiative forcing and global warming potentials due to CH4 and N2O
- Hua Zhang, China

Lessons from the Montreal Protcol for controlling greenhouse gas emissions
- John Daniel, NOAA - United States

Implications for common metrics of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs)
(3394 kB) - Toshihiko Takemura

 Topic II: New and refined areas or metrics

Rate of change, how can it be included in emission metrics?
- Terje Koren Berntsen, CICERO - Norway

The integrated global temperature change potential (iGTP) and relationships between emission metrics - Glen Peters, CICERO - Norway

Metrics and a stabilization of the global average surface temperature - On the Cost-Effective Temperature Potential  (CETP) - Daniel Johansson, Chalmers University - Sweden

Beyond the GWP: new interpretations and new metrics
- Keith Shine, University of Reading - United Kingdom

Carbon emission metrics and its relevance to metrics for non-CO2 GHGs
- Michio Kawamiya, Japan

Topic III: Policy goals

 Cost-effectiveness and implications of GWPs and GTPs under alternative policy goals
- Andy Reisinger, New Zealand

Policy goals and common metrics implications
- Newton Paciornik, Brazil

Policy Goals and Frameworks
- Francis McGovern, European Union

 Topic IV: Relationship between policy frameworks and metrics

Variations on the methane CO2 equivalence
- Olivier Boucher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique IPSL/CNRS, France

A conceptual framework for the economic evaluation of climate metrics
(858 kB) - Gunnar Luderer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

Factors to be considered in choosing metrics
- Shengmin Yu, China

Interactions of metrics and alternative policy settings at a country level: a case study from New Zealand and implications for policy frameworks - Andy Reisinger, New Zealand

The change in GWPs along the RCPs (Representative Concentration Paths)
- Peter van Velthoven, The Netherlands

Implication of different common metrics on mitigation policies; the case of Brazil
-Thiago De Araujo Mendes, Brazil