وأتاح الرصد وسيلة لتقصي مستويات الانبعاثات السنوية وتقدير التقدم المحرز صوب تحقيق أهداف السياسات ومقاصدها، كأهداف الانبعاثات الوطنية والأهداف المتصلة بمصادر الطاقة المتجددة والطاقة الحرارية الكهربائية.
With few exceptions, climate change mitigation, with few exceptions, was a side effect of these policies, or a co-benefit of them An example of co-benefits for climate change is the strengthening of measures to encourage fuel switching from coal to gas reported by some Parties, with reducing air pollution being one of the policy drivers for fuel switching being reducing air pollution New policies having climate change as their primary objective, e.g. emissions trading, which will possibly bring ancillary benefits, were launched only recently.