Project description
Greenhouse gas monitoring and observations for EU climate efforts
Despite consistent efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainability across the EU, a range of challenges such as the inherent difficulty of monitoring ecosystem greenhouse gas (GHG) exchanges accurately and quickly have made achieving EU climate and sustainability targets more difficult than anticipated. The EU-funded NextGenCarbon project will develop a crucial framework to better understand the European GHG budget, assess our capabilities and provide vital information on the impact of our efforts. To achieve this, the project will improve current ecosystem measurements, develop novel, accurate scenario prediction systems, use innovative modelling frameworks and deliver this data along with guidance to policymakers.
Objective
The ability to evaluate EU's climate and sustainability targets is currently limited by challenges in monitoring ecosystem greenhouse gas (GHG) exchanges and other services in an accurate and timely manner. Important knowledge gaps concerning processes and drivers of GHG exchanges persist, that further hamper our predictive capabilities. The absence of coherent approaches to collect, interpret and integrate data on terrestrial GHG stocks and processes into predictive models limits the EU’s ability to monitor ecosystem services and thus to reach its climate ambitions, including the Paris Agreement of Climate Convention and European Green Deal.
NextGenCarbon aims to develop a novel framework for advancing our understanding of the European GHG budget. To reach this goal, we will: 1) improve and enrich existing measurements on ecosystems; 2) assimilate these data into state-of-the-art modelling frameworks; 3) create seamless scenario prediction systems; and 4) provide guidance to policymakers on the magnitude, evolution of and future risks to GHG fluxes.
Our exceptional multidisciplinary consortium links leading experts developing the next generation of ground and EO-driven observations, with several groups at the cutting edge of carbon cycle and land surface modelling, plus teams pushing the boundaries of data assimilation, complex system modelling, forest management and disturbance monitoring, land-use and GHG inventories, and communications. It also involves active engagement with diverse stakeholders, including landowners and managers, GHG exchange modelling community, international community related to environmental monitoring, climate policy support and GHG inventory experts, and policymakers. In doing so, NextGenCarbon will pave the way for high-accuracy and seamless estimates of national to continental and global GHG budgets from the recent past into the coming decades, making a vital contribution to EU's climate mitigation strategies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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750 07 Uppsala
Sweden
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Participants (17)
78035 VERSAILLES
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6708 PB Wageningen
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6708 PB Wageningen
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50121 Florence
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14473 POTSDAM
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80539 Munchen
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00790 Helsinki
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0349 Oslo
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80539 MUNCHEN
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76131 Karlsruhe
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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2361 Laxenburg
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75010 Paris
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04109 Leipzig
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73100 Lecce
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2000 Antwerpen
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14473 Potsdam
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Partners (4)
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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3073 Gumligen
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8092 Zuerich
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8006 Zurich
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