Project description
Tackling methane to combat climate change
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere much more effectively than CO2. Its emissions come from various sources, including agriculture, waste and fossil fuels, making it difficult to track and control. In recent years, methane levels have been rising faster than expected. While reducing methane emissions is key to slowing climate change, accurately measuring and managing them remain a challenge. With this in mind, the EU-funded IM4CA project brings together Europe’s leading methane scientists to tackle this issue. By building new monitoring infrastructure and using satellite data, IM4CA will improve methane tracking and clarify the causes behind its rapid rise. The project aims to provide reliable data to guide methane reduction policies.
Objective
The IM4CA proposal unites leading European methane experts in a concerted effort to establish the scientific fundament needed to bring the climate forcing of methane under control. Specific objectives are to: 1) Strengthen methane mitigation policy world-wide with actionable information on local methane emissions and key driving processes, 2) Provide the EU with the measurement and modeling capacity needed to monitor its methane emissions and assess its progress towards the 30% emission reduction target of the European methane strategy and the global methane pledge, 3) Explore and understand climate feedbacks on natural methane sources and sinks, and 4) Improve the accuracy of climate scenarios by resolving the controversy about the causes for the recent growth rate variations in global methane.
To achieve these objectives we address a selection of key uncertainties that have thus far limited the progress towards these goals by: i) building up critical new infrastructure for monitoring methane emissions in Europe and Tropical Africa, ii) developing methodology for efficient use of existing and upcoming satellites for measuring methane and the land surface properties needed for characterizing and attributing its emissions, and iii) translating the knowledge obtained into reliable projections of future methane and efficient emission mitigation scenarios. In doing so, the IM4CA project will enable a breakthrough in meeting the work program challenge of enhancing the quantification and understanding of natural and anthropogenic methane emissions and sinks. It will provide enhanced European assessment capacity of short- and long-term changes in methane sources and sinks integrating information from multi platforms and novel observations and transfer that capacity into actionable information needed to combat climate change.
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- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
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1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Participants (23)
3584 CS Utrecht
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30-059 Krakow
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1180 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75015 PARIS 15
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2121 Nicosia
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RG2 9AX Reading
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11523 Athina
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00560 Helsinki
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14473 POTSDAM
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2361 Laxenburg
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061126 Bucuresti
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RO77125 Magurele
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80539 Munchen
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2027 Kjeller
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7491 Trondheim
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75010 Paris
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3526 KV Utrecht
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2595 DA Den Haag
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28359 Bremen
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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22100 Lund
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1010 Wien
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78035 VERSAILLES
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8600 Dubendorf
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