World To Have More Greenhouse Gas Emission Data In Next Years - Environmental Defense Fund

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 4. The world will have more data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than ever before in the next two years, Chief Scientist, Senior Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Steve Hamburg said, Trend reports.

He made the remark during panel discussions on“Revolution in our understanding of GHG - role of empirical data, AI and advanced analytics” within the final day of the international conference within "Climate Action Week" dedicated to COP29 in Baku (BCAW24).

"We currently lack sufficient data on greenhouse gas emissions to drive the necessary changes. We need a sort of 'data factory' where everyone can easily access information about emissions and understand where they occur, enabling them to take economically effective measures to reduce them.

We are entering a period of true revolution. In the next two years, we'll gather more data on greenhouse gas emissions than ever before, and this data will be of high quality. We should seize this opportunity and rethink our approach to addressing the issue. Thanks to personal sensors, satellite technologies, and global innovations, we now have tools that were unimaginable just 10 years ago," he noted.

Hamburg also mentioned that a significant portion of this data remains inaccessible to the general public.

"We must make this data open," he emphasized.

The BCAW24 being held in Baku for the first time brings together key participants from different spheres: politics, finance, trade, investment, science, art, culture, civil society, and media.

The first half of the week (from September 30 through October 2) was dedicated to discussing climate solutions with government agencies, academia, and the private sector, while the second half (October 3-4) focuses on science, education, arts, culture, and other sectors.

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