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The ICOS Cities project is designing new ways to observe greenhouse gas emissions in cities. Paris, Munich and Zürich are the first cities to test the measurement methodologies. As part of the project, ICOS Cities Talks is launched – a webinar series with experts discussing climate change and…

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26 and as the Glasgow Conference, represents the world’s last best chance to limit global warming to 1.5°c, to turn the Paris commitments into action and to help build a sustainable future for all. Besides the most high-profile…

Scientists, technical staff, stakeholders and guests gathered for the ICOS Germany network’s Annual Meeting in September, a year and a half after the outbreak of the corona pandemic. The hybrid meeting was hosted by colleagues from the Technical University Dresden in Tharandt, and included an…

The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing our climate to warm at an alarming rate. The consequent changes are unprecedented, and difficult to predict due to the complexity of the Earth system.  While we know that half of the carbon emissions released to the…

Dr Anna Michalak, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Chair of the ICOS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) will be honoured with the 2021 American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Joanne Simpson Medal for making “outstanding achievements and contributions by pushing forward the frontiers of…

The ICOS Science Conference aims to bring together scientists from different areas in order to gather and highlight their outstanding expertise and ideas. We welcome all scientists to submit suggestions as session proposals for the next ICOS Science Conference by Monday 25th of October, 2021.…

This autumn, three new team members have joined ICOS. Ida and Zois are now part of the Carbon Portal team in Lund, Sweden, and Charlotta has reinforced the Helsinki head office communications team. 

Research Engineer Ida Storm is not…

The ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) will participate in the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative (FSOI) via a Surface Ocean CO₂ Monitoring Network to help tackle climate crisis in the ocean and above.

The ocean currently removes 25–30% of the carbon dioxide (CO_2…

A special issue of the scientific journal ‘Progress in Oceanography’ highlights a further decade of critical long-term environmental monitoring undertaken at an ICOS Fixed Ocean Station operated by the UK, the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO). The station is operated by the…

The ICOS station at the Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, received high-level guests in June, when the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, and the President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Maria Chiara Carrozza visited the station. The guests were…