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Greenhouse Gas Inventory: overview and workshop objectives

Greenhouse Gas Inventory: overview and workshop objectives. Brian Fath Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University. Climate Science in brief. EM radiation from sun and earth are different due to temperature differences

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Greenhouse Gas Inventory: overview and workshop objectives

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  1. Greenhouse Gas Inventory:overview and workshop objectives Brian Fath Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University

  2. Climate Science in brief • EM radiation from sun and earth are different due to temperature differences • Some gases in the atmosphere respond to the differences – passing sunshine, absorbing earthshine • These gases are increasing in concentration Inventories can tell us where the gases originate

  3. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientists sound the alarm • Evidence in the 1960s and '70s that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were increasing first led climatologists and others to press for action. It took years before the international community responded. • In 1988, the IPCC was created by the World Meteorological Organization and the UN Environment Programme. • This group issued a first report in 1990 reflecting views of 400 scientists stating that global warming was real and urged that something be done about it. • The Panel's findings spurred governments to create the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It was ready for signature at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development -- the "Earth Summit" -- in Rio de Janeiro. • IPCC reports played a major role in the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 a second, more far-reaching international treaty on climate change.

  4. Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Ohio 1990 Prepared by: Craig A. McDonald Brian D. Fath Robert Garrick Ohio Department of Development Office of Energy Efficiency 77 South High St. Columbus, Ohio 43266

  5. Equivalent Emissions of CO2 for Ohio, 1990

  6. THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER THE UNFCCC at RIO • The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16th February 2005 !! • Lack of U.S. national leadership prompted much local action Kyoto signatures and ratifiers

  7. U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement 685 as of 9/28/2007

  8. Maryland Greenhouse gas inventory And climate action Plan http://www.mde.state.md.us/air/climatechange/index.asp

  9. Baltimore County GHG inventory

  10. PANEL ICompleted inventories/getting started • Issues in completing the inventory • how did you handle scope issues? • data difficulties? • what would you do differently? • is this an overestimation/underestimation? • Institutionalizing the process, etc

  11. PANEL IIImplementing the Knowledge • Campus action plans • Mitigation strategies • Meeting ACUPCC goals • Networking with others in the process

  12. Long term Goals • Reaching climate neutrality/sustainability • Changing campus culture/ curriculum change • Co-op for purchasing green energy • … • Other?

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