Countries around the world are pledging to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and decision makers at all levels of government are developing policies to mitigate emissions and adapt to their impacts. Reliable means of monitoring GHG sources and sinks globally are necessary to better understand their locations, amounts, and rates, in order to support verification of international claims and to evaluate the effectiveness of policy actions. This is not a simple matter, as forests, oceans, agriculture, power plants, and other factors all affect the flux of GHGs in the atmosphere. This briefing will look at current assets and future needs for assessing greenhouse gas emissions to evaluate policy tools and reduction claims.
Contact Science & the Congress Briefing Series
ACS Science & the Congress Project
The Senate Science & Technology Caucus
Co-chairs:
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Madeleine Jacobs, Executive Director, ACS
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Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
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Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
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Jane Leggett Congressional Research Service Presentation Slides Bio │Email | |
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Dennis Tirpak World Resources Institute Remarks Bio │Email | http://acswebcontent.acs.org/flv/SC_Briefings/Mar_4_2010/Tirpak01.flv |
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Bill Irving U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Presentation Slides Bio │Email | |
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Riley Duren NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Presentation Slides Bio │Email |
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