Capabilities Exist To Monitor Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions for Climate Treaty; More Data Could Improve Independent Verification
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March 19, 2010 -- Countries can inventory their carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use accurately enough to support monitoring of an international climate change treaty, but currently there is no sufficiently accurate way to verify countries' self-reported estimates using independent data, says a new report from the National Research Council. Strategic investments could, within five years, improve countries' self-reported emissions estimates and yield the capability to verify them.
