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Building the People and Institutions needed for Greenhouse Gas Management

Thursday, January 26

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Lisa Hanle

About the Speaker

Lisa Hanle is the Director of the MRV Support Program at the GHG Management Institute (GHGMI) supporting developing countries on building the technical and institutional capacity need to implement the Paris Agreement. Lisa has been active in the reporting and review of GHG inventory information at the project, facility, national and international levels for 19 years. Previously, she served as a Programme Officer at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, where she supported the international negotiations to develop the latest guidelines for reporting and review of GHG inventories under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, for use by developed countries. On a technical level, while at the U.S. EPA, Lisa supported development of the annual U.S. GHG inventory to the UNFCCC (responsible for generating emissions estimates for industrial processes and fugitive emissions from coal, oil and natural gas). She was also a core member of the team that developed the United States’ first mandatory, facility-level GHG reporting program, and served as a lead author in the development of the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

 

About the Talk

Just as other key fields such as engineering and financial accounting rely on professionals, GHG emissions management requires a highly competent and ethical professional community to undertake measurement, reporting, verification, mitigation, and adaptation activities. The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI) develops technically rigorous GHG training curricula authored and instructed by leading experts and delivered globally via a "low carbon" e-learning portal combined with onsite workshops. With adoption and entry into force of the Paris Agreement, the need for technically competent GHG professionals across the world is at a level we have never seen before, requiring a global effort to expand capacity building efforts and train individuals using proven approaches. This talk will introduce some of GHGMI’s key programs and activities designed to train a global community of GHG professionals, focusing on strategies to enhance the effectiveness of capacity building interventions.  Recognizing the significant availability of remote sensing data, the talk hopes to initiate discussion on how remote sensing could contribute to the improvement of MRV systems in developed and developing countries to improve the accuracy of GHG inventories and the ability to track implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions and identify potential collaboration areas with NASA carbon scientists.

 


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