UK projects using satellite Earth Observation data to progress pre-commercial climate services, will be able to bid for a new UK Space Agency grant
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The first Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC2023) gets underway on May 23rd with an impressive list of presentations and activities from the UK climate data from space community. The UK, as current Chair of the of the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters, is one of the sponsors. Space4Climate has joined their stand … Continue reading “UK activities at GLOC2023”
Leading emissions scientists and climate satellite experts from the UK have met to see the French-UK MicroCarb satellite undergo testing. While the ground-breaking measuring and monitoring instrument and its satellite are being put through their paces at RAL Space on the Harwell Space Campus in Oxfordshire, the French-UK team behind the mission discussed the ‘data … Continue reading “First face-to-face meeting for UK and French MicroCarb mission teams”
PRESS RELEASE: From Aberdeen to Exeter, nine exciting ideas for climate services have received development funding from the UK Space Agency. Supported by Space4Climate, the UK Space Agency funded the £85,000 call.
Here’s our round-up of key 2023 events published so far for the Earth Observation community.
Supported by Space4Climate, UK Space Agency has launched a new call for grants of up to £10,000 each to develop UK business-viable ideas that use space data in a climate-related application.
Space4Climate Chair Beth Greenaway, Head of Earth Observation and Climate at the UK Space Agency, is due to attend the launch of the SWOT climate satellite on Thursday (December 15th, 2022) in California.
Space4Climate welcomes the announcements of significant new investment from the UK Government in the Earth Observation sector through both national projects and those via the European Space Agency (ESA) Council of Ministers.
A new report on global space-related climate action efforts has been published today (November 9th 2022) to coincide with Earth Information Day at COP27.
COP27 in Egypt may be more remote than COP26 held in Glasgow last November but nevertheless a cohort of our experts are highlighting UK scientific research and emerging technology at the world’s most influential climate summit
The European Space Agency has announced that TRUTHS has been approved as part of the Earth Observation programme that will be proposed to the Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (C-Min) which takes place in Paris on November 22nd-23rd.
How can climate data from space support innovative climate products and climate action for the energy sector? From net zero to transitioning from fossil fuels, the UK’s Earth Observation community leads the way.