Description
I. Background 1. Balancing Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks: from global budgets to climate policies II. Methods 2. CO2 emissions from energy systems and industrial processes: Inventories from data- and proxy-driven approaches 3. Bottom-up approaches for estimating terrestrial GHG budgets: Bookkeeping, process-based modeling, and data-driven methods 4. Top-Down Approaches III. Case Studies 5. Arctic Ecosystems 6. Boreal Forests 7. Temperate forests and grasslands 8. Tropical Ecosystem Greenhouse Gas Accounting 9. Semi-arid Ecosystems 10. Urban Environments and Trans-boundary Linkages 11. Ocean systems 12. Greenhouse gas balances in coastal ecosystems: Current challenges in “blue carbon” estimation and significance to national greenhouse gas inventories 13. Agricultural Systems IV. Forward Looking 14. Applications of top-down methods to anthropogenic GHG emission estimation 15. Earth System Perspective