New Global Greenhouse

Gas Monitoring
Infrastructure
By- Sudarshan Gurjar
• Greenhouse
gases (also
known as GHGs)
are gases in the
earth's
atmosphere that
trap heat.
Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring
Infrastructure:
• Year= 2022
• Proposed by = WMO Executive
Council.
• Work= will establish an
internationally coordinated
approach to observing IMPLEMENTED AS:
network design--- implemented as
part of the Global
⚬ and to the acquisition,
Atmosphere Watch,
international exchange,
and use of the resulting
observations.
Global Greenhouse Gas
Monitoring Infrastructure
Aim
• Aim: To provide better ways
of measuring planet- Working:
warming pollution and help
inform policy choices. • It will be a top-down approach to
the flux evaluation.

• Builds on existing capabilities in

surface- and space-based
observations and modelling
Global Greenhouse Gas
Monitoring Infrastructure
Significance
Significance
• It will provide vital information and
• It is standardised, real- support for the implementation of
time tracking of the Paris Agreement.
greenhouse gases.
• It would improve understanding of
• Produced much faster
the carbon cycle.
and sharper data on how
the planet’s atmosphere • It reduces uncertainties in
is changing. estimates of the strength of
natural sources and sinks.
 Global Atmosphere Watch(GAW)
program

focuses on building a single

and helps to improve the
coordinated global
understanding of interactions
understanding of atmospheric between the atmosphere, the
composition, its change, oceans and the biosphere.
 Global Atmosphere Watch(GAW)
program

coordinates high-quality
• coordinate assessments of
atmospheric composition
the chemical composition of
observations across global the atmosphere on a global
scale.
 HQ of WMO: Geneva
Significance