Date

20 Dec 2023

Attendees

• SC Susanna Castillo Susana.Castillo@barclayswealth.com, Barclays Wealth
• JD Jean-Damien Marie, Jean-Damien.Marie@barclayswealth.com, Barclays Wealth
• NV Nikola Vasiljevic, Nikola.Vasiljevic@barclayswealth.com Barclays Wealth
• DB David Brown david.f.brown@barclays.com, Barclays

• LM Liam McNamara Liam.McNamara@barclays.com, Barclays

• JP Joseph Pigott, Joseph.Pigott@barclays.com, Barclays
• DK Daniel Kull, dkull@wmo.int, Partnership-director at WMO
• LP Lars Peter Riishojgaard, lriishojgaard@wmo.int, G3W-director, incoming G3W-board
• GP Gianpaolo Balsamo, gianpaolo.balsamo@ecmwf.int, ECMWF-scientist, incoming G3W-director

Goals

• Introdution to WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch
• Sustainability & Win-Win scenarios

Useful links

• The governance (UN-leverage & WMO linking role)
• The science case (NASA CMS & European-Space-Week)
• The business case (COP28 outcomes & Just-green-transition)
• The financial case (G3W trust fund, BW-ESG-Portfolio & UN-SOFF)

Discussion items

Further readings

• The systematic carbon observations and the needs for policy-relevant carbon monitoring (Ciais et al. 2014)
• The satellite and insitu observations for advancing Earth surface modelling: A review (Balsamo et al. 2018)
• The first steps towards an operational predictions capacity of the near-term climate (Kushnir et al. 2019)
• The European vision for a CO2MVS - CO2 Monitoring & Verification Support (Janssens-Maenhout et al. 2020)
• The quantification of CO2 - Carbon dioxide emissions reduction during the COVID-19 (Le Queré et al. 2021)
• The CHE - CO2 Human Emissions: First steps towards European operational capacity (Balsamo et al. 2021)
• The quantification of CH4 - Methane emissions from hotspots and during COVID-19 (McNorton et al. 2022)
• The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service European GHGs reanalysis (Agusti-Panareda et al. 2023)
• The European synthesis of CH4 & N2O emissions for EU27 and UK: 1990–2019 (Petrescu et al., 2023)
• The European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for EU27 and UK: 1990–2020 (McGrath et al. 2023)

Action items

• Share a draft agenda by 18 Dec 2023 
• Share a draft presentation by 18 Dec 2023 
• Share further readings by 22 Dec 2023