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The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is a partnership to assist tropical countries with monitoring their forest and carbon resources. Through collaborative action, GFOI partners come together to share their expertise and resources to support tropical countries with creating forest monitoring systems that better inform their national decisions and international commitments, as well as track progress in climate action.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Technical Support Unit (TSU) is a key partner of the GFOI and plays an important role in helping countries to estimate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The IPCC maintains an important database that stores a wide range of emission factors (EFs) and related parameters used by countries to estimate their GHG emissions.
Do you have some data from peer-reviewed literature or reports that would make a valuable contribution to the IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB)? The GFOI is teaming up with the IPCC TSU to update the EFDB and is calling on the GFOI community to make submissions to help achieve this!
The EFDB is an ever-growing and open-access repository that relies on the regular submission of new information from partners to ensure it is updated with the latest knowledge and technology to help countries produce evermore reliable estimates of their GHG emissions. It provides essential background information by compiling data from various trusted sources, including IPCC guidelines, peer-reviewed scientific papers and other authoritative publications such as national reports. The EFDB primarily serves compilers of national GHG inventories and IPCC authors seeking to refine default values.
Submissions to the IPCC EFDB are being sorted from the “Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use” category. This data submission form has some key initial fields that will help to assess your submission for inclusion in the EFDB. Fill out the form to make your impact!
With better information, countries can better manage their forests and take action on climate change.
