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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2021) | Viewed by 6616

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Dr. Emma Yates

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Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Interests: air quality; greenhouse gases; tropospheric composition; long range transport; wildfires; ground-based and airborne measurements
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Dear Colleagues,

The present-day atmospheric levels of major greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons, are unprecedented in the last 800,000 years. Understanding the GHG budgets and trends is an important pathway to mitigate climate change. A better knowledge of the spatial and temporal distribution of GHGs at global, regional, and local scales is essential to accurately estimate the budgets and trends and how they link up to the global growth rates.

We are pleased to announce that this Special Issue of Atmosphere will focus on the broad topic of GHG emission measurement. We invite researchers to submit original research manuscripts in the area of this topic, which may include GHG measurements from observational platforms such as monitoring networks and aircraft campaigns, and active and passive remote sensing. We invite contributions that address the quantification of local emission sources, regional GHG budgets and their verification, GHG trends and variability, and the drivers of major GHG emissions.

Dr. Emma Yates
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • GHG monitoring networks
  • GHG field campaigns
  • GHG emission quantification
  • GHG source characterization
  • innovative GHG measurement techniques

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Innovative Carbon Mitigation Techniques to Achieve Environmental Sustainability Agenda: Evidence from a Panel of 21 Selected R&D Economies
by Muhammad Khalid Anser, Shujaat Abbas, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Mohamed Haffar, Khalid Zaman and Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro
Atmosphere 2021, 12(11), 1514; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111514 - 16 Nov 2021
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Technological innovation in the energy sector is highly needed to reduce carbon emission costs, which requires knowledge spillovers, financial development, and carbon pricing to achieve a green developmental agenda. The current study examines the role of knowledge innovations in achieving the environmental sustainability [...] Read more.
Technological innovation in the energy sector is highly needed to reduce carbon emission costs, which requires knowledge spillovers, financial development, and carbon pricing to achieve a green developmental agenda. The current study examines the role of knowledge innovations in achieving the environmental sustainability agenda under financial development and carbon pricing in a panel of 21 selected R&D economies from 1990 to 2018. The study constructed a composite index of financial development and knowledge innovation in the carbon pricing model. The results show that carbon pricing, a financial development index, innovation index, and energy demand fail to achieve stringent carbon reduction targets. A U-shaped relationship is found between carbon emissions and per capita income in the absence of a financial development index and trade openness. At the same time, this study shows the monotonic decreasing function in the presence of all factors. The causality estimates confirmed the feedback relationship between carbon pricing and carbon emissions, carbon pricing and the financial index, and the financial development index and innovation index. Further, the causality results established the carbon-led financial development and innovation, growth-led carbon emissions, and trade-led emissions, pricing, and financial development in a panel of selected countries. The estimates of the innovation accounting matrix (forecasting mechanism) confirmed the viability of the environmental sustainability agenda through carbon pricing, knowledge innovation, and financial development over a time horizon. However, these factors are not achievable carbon reduction targets in a given period. The study concludes that carbon pricing may provide a basis for achieving an environmental sustainability agenda through market-based innovations, green financing options, and improved energy resources. This would ultimately help desensitize carbon emissions across countries. Full article
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Trend Analysis of Taiwan’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Energy Sector and Its Mitigation Strategies and Promotion Actions
by Wen-Tien Tsai
Atmosphere 2021, 12(7), 859; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12070859 - 01 Jul 2021
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The mitigation strategies and actions for mitigating the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG) from the energy sector become more important and urgent. The main aim of this paper was to present a trend analysis of the emissions of GHG from the Taiwan’s energy [...] Read more.
The mitigation strategies and actions for mitigating the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG) from the energy sector become more important and urgent. The main aim of this paper was to present a trend analysis of the emissions of GHG from the Taiwan’s energy sector, which was issued by the central competent authority through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology. The data also complied with the procedures of measurement, reporting and verification. Based on the official database, the statistics on energy supply, energy consumption and GHG emissions will be connected to analyze the trends of environmental and energy sustainability indicators over the past decades. It showed that the trends of the relevant sustainability indicators based on GHG emissions from the energy sector indicated two development stages: the growth period (annually 5.6%) of 1990–2005, and the decoupling period (annually 0.5%) of 2005–2018. This result could be ascribed to the Taiwan government by promulgating some regulatory measures on energy saving improvement and renewable energy supply during this period. It was worthy to note that the installed capacities of photovoltaic (PV) power increased from 888 megawatt (MW) in 2015 to 5817 MW in 2020. These technological, behavioral, managerial and policy advancements are in accordance with global mitigation strategies. Under the authorization of the energy-related regulations, some promotional actions or programs for efficient energy use and renewable electricity supply were also announced to reach the targets of GHG emissions reduction in the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Full article
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