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Moorbrand in Indonesien — Emissions from pastures and peatlands are often absent from greenhouse gas assessments: Fires in Indonesia.

Effective climate action also suffers from unreliable greenhouse gas emissions data. In many emerging countries, there is often hardly any usable information. Now, the WMO presents a plan to improve data quality significantly.

In Bonn and beyond, the global stocktake will be a politically fiercely debated assessment of global climate action. But the process faces a problem that has hardly been considered so far: Reliable data on greenhouse gas emissions, which are supposed to form the foundation of the debates, are often in short supply, as Table.Media has recently shown with China as an example.

WMO plans to revolutionize measurement of global emissions data

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