AVENGERS: ATTRIBUTING AND VERIFYING EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS AND AEROSOL EMISSIONS AND RECONCILIATION WITH STATISTICAL BOTTOM UP ESTIMATES
It is well-established that the Mediterranean is a climate change hot spot that warms faster than other regions of the world. The Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse gas and aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical bottom-up estimates (AVENGERS consortium) unites a diverse group of experts “to establish how top-down techniques can support the verification of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and other regulated estimates of emissions and removals, in order to improve or supplement the methods/approaches currently used”.
In recognition of the need for a truly multi-actor approach the team represents experts in atmospheric inverse modelling and data assimilation, remote sensing, environmental monitoring and observation, terrestrial ecosystem modelling, policy and stakeholder interaction together with national inventory compilers. AVENGERS builds upon the heritage of previous EU projects, in particular CHE, CoCO2 and VERIFY and will advance the top-down approach for quantifying GHG and aerosol emissions, as well as reconcile and integrate approaches into a joint bottom-up and top-down framework. Based on the reconciliation AVENGERS will prepare good-practice guidelines for use of atmospheric inverse models as well as develop a Flexible Inversion Tool for Inventory Compilers (FIT-IC).
Knowledge and outcomes are provided of use for policy and societal stakeholders and replicable outside of our chosen target area (Europe with a focus on Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and The Netherlands). The uniqueness of the consortium lies in the combination of the required scientific expertise with full partner presence of official reporting agencies from exemplary EU countries (Germany, Italy, Sweden, and The Netherlands) facilitating the transfer of knowledge to key international organizations (such as UNFCCC, WMO) in the field.
CARE-C scientists will contribute to this effort with dedicated studies focused on Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region to complement and stretch the potential of the AVENGERS approach to challenging areas with few validation and verification datasets and tools.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Research and Innovation Actions, under grant agreement No 101081322
EUROPEAN CLIMATE, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT EXECUTIVE AGENCY (CINEA)
Funding: €5.500.000
Start date: 1 January 2023
End date: 30 June 2026
Partners
- Lunds Universitet – Sweden
- Kaminski Thomas Herbert – The Inversion Lab Thomas Kaminski Consulting- Germany
- Istituto Superiore Per La Protezione E La Ricerca Ambientale – Italian Institute For Environmental Protection And Research – Italy
- Rijksinstituut Voor Volksgezondheid En Milieu – Rivm- Netherlands
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg – Uhei- Germany
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneosui Cambiamenti Climatici – Fondazione Cmcc- Italy
- Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno – Netherlands Organisation Forapplied Scientific Research- Netherlands
- Integrated Carbon Observation System European Research Infrastructureconsortium – Icos Eric- Finland
- Umweltbundesamt – Uba -Germany
- Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet – Swedish University Of Agricultural Sciences- Sweden
- Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten – Nwo-I – Netherlands
- Stichting Vu – Netherlands
- Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola Ab – Sweden
- The Cyprus Institute – Cyprus
