International Project Office for the Global Carbon Project

气候系统的变暖是明确的，很可能是由于大气中二氧化碳和其他温室气体的增加。二氧化碳是最重要和增长最快的温室气体。它主要通过人类活动燃烧化石燃料和砍伐森林而释放到大气中。世界各国政府承诺将全球变暖限制在比工业化前水平高2摄氏度的范围内。根据现有的知识，这一承诺要求全球二氧化碳排放量最迟在2015年至2020年达到峰值，此后大幅减少。制定限制全球变暖的国际协议的政治讨论是以国际社会提供的科学知识为基础的。这些讨论的关键是提供最新的最新信息，以及科学辩论和信息的透明度。全球碳项目（GCP）成立于2001年，负责协调碳循环的国际研究。自2004年以来，GCP在社区的支持下汇编、分析和公布了关于“全球CO2预算”的信息，包括CO2排放量及其在大气、海洋和陆地储存库中的分配。这项工作提供了大量信息，有助于政策制定过程和公众了解控制大气中二氧化碳浓度的人为和自然因素。年度CO2预算的增长超出了GCP的能力。与此同时，对更多和更好的信息、更多的背景支持材料、方法和过程的更大透明度以及信息的可追溯性的需求也在增长。社区正在努力进一步组织起来，以支持这一重要努力。该提案旨在在东安格利亚大学的廷德尔气候变化研究中心建立一个GCP办公室。这个地点将是理想的支持年度二氧化碳预算的出版，因为它已经建立了关于碳循环的研究，在其现有计划中所做的优势和补充工作，以及其为英国和国际政策制定者提供高质量政策相关科学的无与伦比的记录。英国GCP办公室将为年度二氧化碳预算提供关键支持，并进一步提高其可信度和可见度。科学家们已经开始思考如何提供碳信息服务，以帮助向低碳经济的必要过渡。GCP提出的一种方法是通过建立国际碳办公室，将GCP活动中更具操作性的方面制度化，例如公布二氧化碳预算。制定这样一个雄心勃勃的项目需要利益攸关方的认真思考和坚定承诺。英国GCP办公室将与现有组织合作，建立ICO的结构基础，并确定其长期潜力和可行性。

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and very likely due to the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. CO2 is the most important and fastest-growing greenhouse gas. It is released to the atmosphere mainly by the burning of fossil fuel from human activities and by deforestation. Governments around the world have pledged to limit global warming to 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. According to current knowledge, such a commitment requires that the global emissions of CO2 peak at the latest between 2015 and 2020, and decrease sharply afterwards.The political discussions to develop an international agreement that would limit global warming are based on scientific knowledge provided by the international community. Key to those discussions is the provision of the latest up to date information, and the transparency of the scientific debate and information. The Global Carbon Project (GCP), established in 2001, coordinates international research on the carbon cycle. Since 2004, the GCP with the support of the community has compiled, analysed and published information on the "global CO2 budget", including the CO2 emissions and their partitioning among the atmosphere, ocean and land reservoirs. This effort has provided tremendous information to help the policy process and the public understand the human and natural factors that control the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The annual CO2 budget has growth beyond the capacity of the GCP. At the same time, the demand is growing for more and better information, more background supporting material, more transparency in the methods and process, and traceability of the information. The community is trying to organise itself further to support this important effort. This proposal aims to establish an office of the GCP in at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research of the University of East Anglia. This location would be ideal to support the publication of the annual CO2 budget because of its already well-established research on the carbon cycle, the strength and complementary work done in its existing programmes, and its unparallelled record of providing high quality policy-relevant science to UK and international policymakers. The UK GCP office would provide key support, and further credibility and visibility to the annual CO2 budget.Scientists have begun to think about how to produce carbon information services to assist in the necessary transition towards a low-carbon economy. One way proposed by the GCP is to institutionalise the more operational aspects of the GCP activities, such as the publication of CO2 budgets, through the establishment of an International Carbon Office. The development of such an ambitious project needs careful thinking and strong commitment from stakeholders. The UK GCP office would work with existing organisations to establish the structural basis of an ICO and determine its potential and viability in the long term.