Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation

Satellites have a really important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is the only instrument that maps global...

Monitoring anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) and its emissions is a challenging but vital task to mitigate global warming. The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and Carbon...

Comprehensive global monitoring of greenhouse gas concentrations and fluxes is needed to fully understand the dynamics of climate change and to support mitigation actions. Two workshops held in September...

The Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is the only satellite instrument that produces a global map of methane concentrations every day. The satellite measures methane by observing...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC elections took place at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya, from 25 to 28 July and marked the end of the sixth...

Earth System Science Data, part of the Copernicus Publications family of journals, has published an update to IPCC’s most recent assessment of the physical basis of climate change...

The 4 th Carbon from Space Workshop took place in 2022 to review this progress and identify priorities in understanding the terrestrial carbon cycle for the next five year period...

While the EU Space Programme and the data and services it provides are important assets to supporting the implementation of the Green Deal, businesses stand to benefit too. Copernicus...

The governing body of the World Meteorological Organization, the World Meteorological Congress, has unanimously approved the new “Global Greenhouse Gas Watch” that the Copernicus Monitoring Service (CAMS)...

The Arctic, once again at the forefront of climate change, is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases triggering a series of cascading effects known as Arctic amplification. Satellites developed...