April 2022

Towards monitoring carbon emission reductions with satellites

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In a mere decade, satellites have revolutionised our ability to monitor the global environment, its hazards, and abrupt changes. Now this quickly evolving field is preparing to support the goals of the Paris Agreement by an independent monitoring and verification system that uses satellite observations to quantify national greenhouse gas emission reductions. The European Union’s […]

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The SCIPPER project

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SCIPPER (Shipping Contributions to Inland Pollution Push for the Enforcement of Regulations) is a European project which aims at deploying state-of-art and next-generation measurement techniques to monitor emissions of vessels under their normal operation. While vessels exhibit comparatively low fuel consumption per unit of cargo-distance, they produce high specific emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur

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World Health Day 2022: the climate crisis is also a health crisis

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Working for cleaner air and a safer climate means working for the health and well-being of societies, people and non-human nature. On April 7th, World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual World Health Day campaign draws attention to critical health-related issues around the globe. This year’s theme is ‘Our planet, our health’. According to WHO’s estimation, more

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