CEOS Development Environment

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)

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Article 14 of the Paris Climate Agreement sets out the concept of the Global Stocktake (GST) as a means to evaluate global progress towards the goals of the Agreement. Earth observations naturally play a key role in this process, and CEOS & CEOS Agencies have been working hard in the years leading up to the first GST, to be […]

CEOS Support to IMEO MARS Project

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Over the past 3 years, the previous Australian SIT Chair Team and current ESA SIT Chair team have been exploring avenues of collaboration between CEOS and UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO). As anticipated at the recent SIT Technical Workshop, IMEO has today launched its ground-breaking Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) at COP 27, with […]

ARSET Webinar Series: Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 Budgets to Support the Global Stocktake

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Recognising that the rapid build up of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and other anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the primary driver of climate change, Parties to the Paris Agreement have resolved to rapidly reduce their emissions. To track progress toward this goal, Parties are compiling inventories of anthropogenic GHG emissions and removals, which are […]

The New Global Stocktake Data Portal

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Systematic observations of the Earth’s atmosphere and surface from ground-based, airborne, and space-based sensors are absolutely crucial for the characterization of Earth’s climate. They are what make the work of the UNFCCC, the IPCC and the Paris Agreement possible, and more than half of the 60 or so Essential Climate Variables – the physical, chemical, […]