NextGenCarbon
KEY POINTS- Coordinated by SLU
- Greenhouse Gas Budgeting
Project overview
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Global goals
- 11. Sustainable cities and communities
- 13. Climate action
Short summary
A new EU-funded project aims to provide a better understanding of the EU’s greenhouse gas budget through modeling of the terrestrial carbon cycle, to support policy decisions on land use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
An important contribution to the EU’s future climate change adaptation strategies
The EU has set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and an important component is terrestrial carbon sources and sinks. To achieve these targets, monitor progress, and develop new measures, policymakers need more reliable data from various types of landscapes, and this data must be updated frequently.
Over the next five years, a new EU project will address these needs by combining Earth observation data from remote sensors and integrating it into various carbon cycle modeling approaches. It will also leverage expertise from 21 European partners. The project, NextGenCarbon, led by Professor Rubén Valbuena from SLU, has a budget of 12 million euros over five years and involves 22 European partners. The project is funded by Horizon Europe, the EU’s framework program for research and innovation.
NextGenCarbon - Monitoring Earth's Carbon Balance
