Africa Working Group Created in 2021
Goals
Create a network of experts on African emissions
Evaluate African-specific emission inventories
Create a regional database (fuel consumption, emission factors and inventories)
Create a continental wide African emission inventory
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES : AFE-GEIA working group
1) Create a network on emissions for Africa
with experts, international group representatives and regional decision makers (emissions for both climate & air quality communities)
2) Gather all the existing information on emissions over the continent
Determine 1 or 2 Principal Investigators/champions per country
3) Looking for funding
Submit proposals, collaborate with other programs (e.g. WASCAL, WRI)
4) Create an African emission database
Provide basic information (fuels, emission factors) at a high spatial resolution (country, city) by considering all sectors of activity (traffic, domestic and commercial fires, waste burning, agricultural fires, industries, power plant, flaring).
5) Develop and evaluate a continental wide African emission
inventory from this database, possibly with the most recent DACCIWA inventory (Keita et al. 2021) as a baseline
6) Conduct exercises on
global/regional/local emission inventory harmonisation
7) Organize training sessions in Africa on emissions
Construction of emission inventories and emission factor measurements.
8) Investigate formal links with decision makers
in order to set up emission activity data collection at each country scale
9) Develop an AFE platform to host database
on emission inventory, emission factors, fuel consumption data, publications, meeting informations, videos of training session ...
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Contact Working Group Leaders
Sekou Keita: Côte d’Ivoire, sekkeith@yahoo.fr
Mogesh Naidoo: South Africa , mogeshnaidoo@gmail.com
Cathy Liousse : France, cathy.leal-liousse@aero.obs-mip.fr