News

A court in The Hague has ordered the Dutch government to cut its emissions by at least 25% within five years, in a landmark ruling expected to cause ripples around the world, writes The Guardian. Read more in the The Guardian article

"The Vatican has produced a timely and valuable warning on the threat of climate change that will reach a wide audience", writes Nature.com in a comment. To the article

Deal at UN climate summit later this year should be enforced through five-yearly reviews to avoid dangerous global warming, draft document shows, writes The Guardian. Read The Guardian article

Climate change is 'the biggest global health crisis of the 21st century' and will undo the last 50 years of gains in development and global health according to the study in The Lancet. Read more in Business Insider

ICOS presents itself at Paris Climate Conference ICOS ERIC has now been adopted by the European Commission on Monday 26 October 2015! After offical publication by the EU and the Finnish Government (ICOS Head-Office is in Finland) ICOS will have the special legal status of ERIC: European Research…

Maggie Hellström is working on how ICOS Carbon Portal can use services from EUDAT to set up an efficient and comprehensive data handling solution. In an interview, she shares her insights on this cooperation. ICOS is bringing together data from the atmospheric, ecosystem and oceanic greenhouse…

On November 20 2015, the ICOS ERIC has been officially established in Brussels by the European Commission, and ICOS is now among the first 12 large EU Research Infrastuctures. This will enable a comprehensive approach to map the European greenhouse gases.

On the last of July the ObsPack data product GLOBALVIEWplus V1.0 has been released. It has been prepared by Ken Masarie (NOAA) and Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx (ICOS Carbon Portal/Wageningen University). In this ObsPack data product concentration measurements of CO2 are bundled from 205…

Trust but verify: Towards a comprehensive Global Observation, Information and Verification System on Greenhouse Gases

Today COP 21 begins and we all hope that it will result accelerating action against climate change. Some people are optimistic, some pessimistic and claim that we have…

Reading it black on white is just wonderful:

“COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/2097 of 26 October 2015 on setting up the Integrated Carbon Observation System European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ICOS ERIC)”

This means that 9 European countries have united to build a…