NextGenCarbon
Project overview
Participants
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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
Partners:
Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE)
Wageningen University
University of Florence
Helmholtz Geo-Research Center Potsdam
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Exeter
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Science Partners
Leipzig University
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
University of Antwerp
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gamma Remote Sensing
ETH Zurich
University of Zurich
University of Bologna
