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At the beginning of July the General Assembly of ICOS ERIC has approved the application of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to become member of ICOS ERIC.

I cordially welcome our UK colleagues. UK is the twelfth country cooperating within ICOS. Scientists from the…

With the inauguration of ICOS ERIC in November 2015 the official station labeling process of the ICOS stations has been initiated and site Principal Investigator for CH-DAV Lukas Hörtnagl was the first ecosystem station PI who applied to become an official ICOS station.

CH-DAV is the code…

On 1 January 2014 the Integrated Carbon Observation System research infrastructure’s Carbon Portal (ICOS CP) entered into its construction & implementation stage. This document reports on the progress in the years 2014 and 2015. Until the end of 2015 the Swedish part of the ICOS CP was…

Director of the carbon Portal Alex Vermeulen will participate in th 9th GEO European Projects Workshop. Director of the carbon Portal Alex Vermeulen will participate in th 9th GEO European Projects Workshop - GEPW-9, 15-16 June, with the presentation "The Integrated Carbon Observing System ICOS…

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…