ongoing projects
AVENGERS – Attributing and verifying european and national greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions and reconciliation with statistical bottom up estimates
Lund University, Thomas Herbert Kaminski, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Heidelberg University, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, Netherlands), Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS), German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Hauge), Stichting VU, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
AVENGERS is a Research and Innovation project funded under the Horizon Europe program of the European Union with the overall objective to reconcile reported GHG emissions with independent information from atmospheric observations using top-down methods and process-based models, and thereby reduce the most important uncertainties of national emission inventories.
EYE-CLIMA - verifying emissions of climate forcers
NILU, Vienna University, LSCE, University of Bremen, FMI, IIASA, KIT, cicero, Science Partners, CiTEPA, University of Crete, Thünen Institute, ICOS, ECMWF, Empa, ETH Zürich
EYE-CLIMA develops observation-based methods to independently verify national greenhouse gas inventories. It advances atmospheric inversion techniques, creates guidelines, and collaborates with inventory compilers through pilot projects. The project improves CO₂ flux estimates, detects major methane emissions using satellite data, and supports EU climate policy with accurate greenhouse gas and black carbon data. Organized into six work packages—data collection, bottom-up and inverse modeling, emission attribution, outreach, and coordination—it integrates satellite observations, machine learning, and modeling to reduce uncertainties and reconcile top-down and bottom-up estimates, strengthening climate monitoring and policy implementation across Europe.
ForestPaths – Co-designing Holistic Forest-based Policy Pathways for Climate Change Mitigation
European Forest Institute (EFI), Lund University, TU Munich, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, LUKE, Wageningen University, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Öko-Institut, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Prospex Institute, Transilvania University of Brasov, Pensoft, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, University of Edinburgh, Teesside University
ForestPaths aims to co-design and evaluate forest-based policy pathways that support EU climate neutrality and biodiversity goals. It focuses on developing climate- and biodiversity-smart forest management strategies, improving models and data for assessing forest impacts, and engaging stakeholders to create actionable policies and tools for sustainable forest governance. ForestPaths receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme (ID No 101056755), as well as from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Council (UKRI).
FOREST VISIONS – envisioning forest management practices for a fossil free society in the face of goal conflicts and uncertainties
Lund University
The forest contribute to human well-being in many ways. To avoid overuse and unintentional ecosystem changes, this multi-functionality has to be addressed when developing forest management strategies and policies. The aim of this transdisciplinary project is to quantify and visualize the contribution of different adaptive management strategies to climate solutions and fulfillment of environmental objectives during the transition towards a fossil-free society.
IM4CA – Investigating Methane for Climate Action
Stichting VU, Utrecht University, AGH University of Science and Technology, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), The Cyprus Institute, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, E3-Modelling, Finnish Meteorological Institute, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Incas – National Institute For Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics, Max Planck Society, Stiftelsen NILU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Science Partners, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Hauge), Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (Hague), University of Bremen, University of Leeds, University of Vienna, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
The IM4CA project unites leading European methane experts in a concerted effort to establish the scientific fundament needed to bring the climate forcing of methane under control. Specific objectives are to: 1) Strengthen methane mitigation policy world-wide with actionable information on local methane emissions and key driving processes, 2) Provide the EU with the measurement and modeling capacity needed to monitor its methane emissions and assess its progress towards the 30% emission reduction target of the European methane strategy and the global methane pledge, 3) Explore and understand climate feedbacks on natural methane sources and sinks, and 4) Improve the accuracy of climate scenarios by resolving the controversy about the causes for the recent growth rate variations in global methane.
PARIS – Process Attribution of Regional Emissions
Utrecht University/NL, University of Bristol/UK, Wageningen University/NL, Met Office/UK, Goethe University Frankfurt/GER, Norwegian Institute for Air Research/NOR, University of Urbino Carlo Bo/IT, Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI)/HUN, University of Edinburgh/GB, Deutscher Wetterdienst/GER
PARIS is a Horizon Europe project designed to improve understanding of greenhouse gas emissions through advanced scientific methods and collaborative data use. Seventeen European partners focus on major gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. For complex sources such as methane and CO₂, the project enhances isotopologue measurements and tracer-based analyses to refine source attribution. Nitrous oxide estimates will be improved using process-level models validated against isotopic data. For aerosols and black carbon, PARIS develops source apportionment techniques to enable robust top-down emission inference. To maximize impact, findings will be integrated into draft Annexes for National Inventory Reports in eight countries, fostering collaboration between inventory teams and researchers. This approach combines top-down and bottom-up methods to reduce uncertainties and strengthen European greenhouse gas reporting.
WiSdoM - Water stress in Swedish forests: identifying risk areas to target management action
Lund University, SMHI, Stockholm University, MERGE
WiSdoM aims to develop a decision-support system to identify when and where Swedish forests are most vulnerable to water stress. The project will integrate and enhance a process-based forest ecosystem model with advanced tree water stress responses, generate a unique observational dataset on water stress impacts in Swedish forests to calibrate and validate the model adapt the model for operational use in Sweden through collaboration with industry and regulatory stakeholders and produce vulnerability maps and management strategies to support targeted, cost-effective forest interventions.