IG3IS Webinar Series 2026: Supporting cities with the development of greenhouse gas emission inventories – practical guidelines and tools
Speaker:
Dr Ingrid Super, Scientist at TNO, the Netherlands.
About the speaker:
Dr. Ingrid Super is an environmental scientist at TNO who aims to build bridges between the (inverse) modeling and emission communities in support of emission reporting and verification. She obtained a PhD in urban fossil fuel emission quantification at Wageningen University (Netherlands). The PhD project involved using in-situ observations, high-resolution atmospheric modeling, and developing a data assimilation system, including source-sector attribution using co-emitted species. After her PhD, she started working on describing uncertainties and error correlations in the prior emission data to support data assimilation studies at different scales. Currently, she works on developing a multi-scale dynamic emission model for greenhouse gases and air pollutants, making emission predictions, and improving the timing of fossil fuel emissions.
Overview of the topic:
Climate change is a global phenomenon that severely impacts urban life. At the same time, cities are key contributors to climate change, as urban activities are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, cities play an important role in reducing climate change. To support cities with their climate action plans, TNO developed guidelines to help city/local government stakeholders create city emission inventories, with a specific focus on direct GHG emissions within city boundaries. Several options are listed, ranging from a simple downscaling approach (supported by tools) to complex bottom-up calculations, so that each party can benefit, regardless of available resources. In this webinar, we will explain the guidelines and the downscaling tool and show examples of city emission data generated by that tool.
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