(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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