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Canada: COP 28 Recommendations for Strengthening Country Climate Ambition
The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change House of Common, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca Hello...
Brazil: COP 28 Recommendations for Strengthening Country Climate Ambition
Dear Diplomat André Corrêa do Lago, seclima@itamaraty.gov.br HEAD OF THE BRAZILIAN DELEGATION TO COP28My name is Carlos Alexandre de Oliveira....
Australia: COP 28 Recommendations for Strengthening Country Climate Ambition
Dear Dr Sally Box (Head of Australian Delegation – Negotiations, sally.box@dcceew.gov.au) and Mr David Higgins (Head of Australian Delegation –...
The U.S Emissions Inventory is Comprehensive, but Information Could be Provided on a More Timely Basis
Rating BThe Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks is a critical report that helps the U.S. government and...
Turkey Produces Comprehensive GHG Inventories that Are One Year Behind Schedule
Rating: B Background: The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change that differs from the...
Spain’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Provides Useful Information but Could be More Timely
Rating B- Like many other countries, Spain maintains a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventory to monitor and report its emissions...
South Africa has a Good System for Compiling GHG Inventories, but the Structural Challenge Affects Effective Implementation
Rating C The 8th National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (NIR), which was recently published, contains the greenhouse inventory from 2000...
Saudi Arabia Produces Emissions Reports That are Out of Date and Not Reliable
RATING DThe National Inventory of Anthropogenic Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks of Greenhouse Gases can be accessed via...
Mexico’s GHG Inventory Reports Are Good But Dated
Rating: C This Post 68 reports on the status of Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory and describes the organizations responsible...
Japan’s Emissions Reports are Strong, but Effort Should be Made to Make them More Timely
Rating B Japan reports an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions annually as a public document. The document is available on...
Indonesia Produces GHG Inventory Reports but they are Dated and Limited
Rating C In 1999, Indonesia submitted an Initial National Communication (INC) document to the newly formed United Nations Framework Convention...
India Produces Emission Inventory Reports in a Timely, Comprehensive Manner
Rating: A With the world’s largest population of over 1.4 billion and the fifth largest economy with an annual gross domestic...
Germany’s National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Status
RATING A In Germany, the German Environment Agency (aka the UBA, Umwelt Bundesamt), founded in 1974, began developing a reporting...
France’s GHG Inventory Deserves a B Rating for Producing Comprehensive, Useful Reports No More Than One Year Old
B Rating France submits its national greenhouse gas inventory annually to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....
EU Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Comprehensive but Infrequent Releases of Data
Rating CAs part of the EU Climate Monitoring Mechanism, EU Member States are required to continuously improve their national inventory...
The Status of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
ACCESS TO DATA Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, Canada adopted 2005 as the base year for its greenhouse gas...
Brazil’s Climate Observatory has been Producing Reliable Estimates of Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Since 2013
RATING: AThe OC is a coalition of Brazilian civil society organizations collaborating on climate change issues. Founded in 2001, it...
Australia Produces Timely, Comprehensive, Useful Reports for the Current Year
Rating A Australia releases an inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions every quarter. This inventory is a public document that can...
Practices exist to help US farmers cope with climate change but require technical, policy and capacity-building support
Rating BThe impact of climate change on the economy varies from sector to sector. Still, as a critical user of...
UK agriculture needs a more radical transformation in the face of climate change
Rating B The UK has a temperate maritime climate. In general, this means that we have mild summers and cool,...