Third General Assembly of VERIFY: Virtual meeting over two days to present all achievements made in the VERIFY project and discuss the design of the greenhouse gaz monitoring and verification support system to be completed in the final year.
VERIFY’S GA 2021 has gathered almost 80 participants at each session. The meeting was organized over two days with 2 sessions per day. The first day focused on the recent progresses made in each work packages of VERIFY and the second day on scientific challenges linked to the construction of a monitoring and verification system for GHG fluxes and the international context.
You can access to the recorded sessions by clicking on the following links :
- VERIFY GHG flux estimates : https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/da5XGU9tu3ZweqB
- VERIFY synthesis and inputs to international programs :https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/5JC0QjfkEhhLZRG
- Science talks linked observation-based GHG flux estimates : https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/0F9rKNfKu48z6T3
- Prospects, and international context : https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/r9PRjNGaP2bWtrK and https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/51ReXU0ndmmS31i
The detailed agenda and the presentations are also available online.
During the third session, we had a time slot on “Forest biomass & harvest”, linked to the Ceccherini et al. (2020) paper on Abrupt increase in harvested forest area in Europe. A debate was organized around the robustness of the key messages presented in that paper with critics provided by Gert-Jan Naaburr and rebuttal by Alessandro Cescatti and Giacomo Grassi.
You can find Ceccherini et al. paper here, the published critics : Palahí, M. et al. (Concerns about reported harvests in European forests) and Wernick, I. K. et al. et al. (Quantifying forest change in the European Union), as well as the replies by Ceccherini et al. (Reply to Wernick, I. K. et al.; Palahi, M. et al.).
