CORDIS Archive

FP5 Projects

• 2.1. To understand, detect, assess and predict global change processes

• 2.1.1. Atmospheric composition change
• 2.1.2. Stratospheric ozone depletion
• 2.1.3. Climate change prediction and scenarios
• 2.1.4. Climate variability and abrupt climate changes

• 2.2. To foster better understanding of terrestrial (including freshwater) and marine ecosystems and their interactions

• 2.2.1. Ecosystem vulnerability
• 2.2.2. Interactions between ecosystems and the carbon and nitrogen cycles
• 2.2.3. Assessing and conserving biodiversity

• 2.3. Scenarios and strategies for responding to global issues

• 2.3.1. Mitigation and adaptation to global change
• 2.3.2. Reconcilling the conservation of biodiversity with economic development
• 2.3.3. Fighting land degradation and desertification
• 2.3.4. Compatibility between EU and international environmental policies and links with trade

• 2.4. European component of the global observing systems

• 2.4.1. Better exploitation of existing data and adaptation of existing observing systems
• RTD activities of a generic nature
  

1. The fight against major natural and technological hazards
2. The development of generic Earth observation satellite technologies
3. Socio-economic aspects of environmental change in the perspective of sustainable development