Saturday 8 October 2011

Track your Carbon Emissions


With the rising levels of carbon emissions and increasing demand for energy it becomes necessary to mark its generation. Attention to secure practical benefits for humankind plays an equal role with the quest to acquire new knowledge about the Earth system. One of the fundamental quest (climate change issue) is where CO2 generated by human activities is coming from and going to? Carbon tracking systems have been developed to answer this quest. The vision is to mark the "advances in fundamental understanding of the carbon cycle and increased application of this understanding to serve the nation and the people of the world". Carbon Tracker as a scientific tool will, together with long-term monitoring of atmospheric CO2, help improve our understanding of the present state and future behavior of the global carbon cycle, particularly the factors that control levels of atmospheric CO2 and feedbacks to climate. Carbon Tracker can become a policy support tool too. Efforts to control climate change require the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This can only be achieved through a drastic reduction of global CO2 emissions. Therefore the accurate, reliable and independent system is needed for monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of emission reduction activities on atmospheric CO2 levels.

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