Scalable Tracking of CO2 Emissions A Global Analysis with Satellite Data

This paper extends recent research on satellite-based carbon dioxide measurement to an easily updated template for tracking changes in carbon dioxide concentrations at local and regional scales. Using data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 sa...

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Main Author: Dasgupta, Susmita
Other Authors: Wheeler, David, Lall, Somik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2023
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a This paper extends recent research on satellite-based carbon dioxide measurement to an easily updated template for tracking changes in carbon dioxide concentrations at local and regional scales. Using data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite platform and a large sample of urban areas, a comparison of trend estimation models suggests that the template can use a simple model that estimates trends directly from satellite data pre-filtered to isolate local concentration anomalies. Illustrative applications are developed for a long-period trend model and a short-period model focused on change in the most recent year. In addition, the paper estimates carbon dioxide emissions for thousands of urban areas and identifies cities whose emissions performance is above or below expectation. Although the tracking model is "simple," it requires software and hardware that are beyond the means of many interested stakeholders. For this reason, the World Bank's Development Economics Vice Presidency has established an open web facility that pre-filters data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2satellite and publishes monthly mean concentration anomalies for all terrestrial cells of a 25-kilometer global grid. The website will also publish annual carbon dioxide tracking reports for urban areas and provide information that links the 25-kilometer global grid cell IDs to IDs for urban areas and national administrative units (levels 0, 1, and 2)