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Add non-greenhouse gas emission species
While working on some sanity-checks for the new IAMC project templates, I realized that several emissions species are relevant for IAM reporting but are not included in the list of emissions - because they are not greenhouse gases.
I suggest to add them anyway here so that pyam and a unit-validation-schema can directly build on ism-units (instead of requiring a separate solution).
I was trying to use the following line to check whether a unit like "Mt BC/yr" is valid.
iam_units.emissions.pattern.split(unit)
This fails for the following emissions species: BC, CO, NH3, NO2, OC, SO2, VOC, HFC43-10
Of course, trying to convert them using GWP should (continue to) fail.
Any objections @khaeru @phackstock?