Paragraph 85 of the Future We Want, Rio+20
High level political forum
(k) HLP Forum to inter alia strengthen the science-policy interface through review of documentation bringing together dispersed information and assessments, including in the form of a global sustainable development report, building on existing assessments;
Supporting Initiatives
Greenhouse Gas Bulletins GHG
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The WMO Global Atmosphere Watch monitors trace atmospheric constituents in order to understand and control the increasing influence of human activity on the global atmosphere. The annual WMO-GAW Greenhouse Gas Bulletins reports on the latest trends and atmospheric burdens of the most influential, long-lived greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) – and provides a summary of the contributions of the lesser gases. The three major gases alone contribute about 88% of the increase in radiative forcing of the atmosphere by changes in long-lived greenhouse gases occurring since the beginning of the industrial age (since 1750). The Bulletins represent the consensus of a consortium of networks operating since the mid 1980s.
In support of Rio+20 outcome paragraph
85
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(k) HLP Forum to inter alia strengthen the science-policy interface through review of documentation bringing together dispersed information and assessments, including in the form of a global sustainable development report, building on existing assessments;
