Big questions for air/energy?
Here are some big questions that Peter outlined. The sub-group cannot do all of these, so we'll have to pick a few that are the most important. Which ones make a compelling paper that synthesizes data in a new and interesting way? Please comment...
- What is the global contribution of GHG emissions by urban areas?
- What is the global level of carbon equivalent emissions produced in urban areas and what is the urban share of total anthropogenic emissions?
- What is the urban share by nation?
- What are the (end use) sectors responsible for these emissions, globally and nationally?
- What is the global contribution of low-level emissions (e.g. CO, O3 VOC, NOX) by urban areas?
- What is the level of these emission produced in urban areas and what is the urban share of total anthropogenic emissions?
- What is the urban share by nation?
- What are the (end use) sectors responsible for these emissions, globally and nationally?
- What are the air-regulatory services provided by cities?
- What are the ecosystem offsets (trees, shrubs, soil)?
- What are the social system offsets (management practices, wastewater, landfills, etc)
- What mitigation and adaptation strategies that should we prioritize?
- What is the future trend for cities and air regulatory services? What are cities projected to contribute globally to both low-level and global emissions by 2025 (or some other date in the future)?
- What are future trends; how large will the increase in production (and share) of emissions going to be?
- What are the drivers of these trends?
- What proportion of cities is projected to have “high” production of low-level, health-related emissions?
- What are the trends in offsets and adaptation/mitigation strategies?
- What are the caveats to these analyses and what have we learned about current data and knowledge gaps that prohibit accurate calculation of any of the above?
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