The World Meteorological Congress has approved a new greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring initiative named “Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (GGGW)”. The World Meteorological Congress is a body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Key points
- GGGW supports urgent action to reduce heat-trapping gases, which are fuelling temperature increases.
- GGGW will fill critical information gaps and provide an integrated and operational framework. The framework will bring all space-based and surface-based observing systems, as well as modelling and data assimilation capabilities, under one roof.
- The Congress resolution endorsing the establishment of the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch received unanimous support from WMO’s 193 members.
- It will build on WMO’s experience in coordinating international collaboration in weather prediction and climate analysis and on long-standing activities in greenhouse gas monitoring and research under the auspices of the Global Atmosphere Watch established in 1989 and its Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System.
