Presentation of the Climate TRACE initiative at COP27 in Sharm el Sheik
The climate crisis is underway and its impacts are increasingly incisive. The Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement have defined the context for the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and reduction commitments of the 198 countries of the United Nations. Estimates of emissions are very accurate in countries that have data and funds available for monitoring; among these, those estimated for Italy by ISPRA.
Climate TRACE provides estimates of country-level emissions by sector and by greenhouse gas from 2015 to 2021, even for those countries that do not have the economic means to monitor greenhouse gas emissions. Climate TRACE emissions data are free and available for download for each industrial plant and can be a valid support for the assessment process verification activities in the most advanced countries.
The Italian Space Economy initiative is part of the same line, which includes the Mirror Copernicus program, aimed at developing an open system that provides products and services based on data from monitoring networks, satellite data and modeling applications. ISPRA is fully involved in these activities, and in the coordination and support of the national tables of climatology, geology and operational hydrology, as well as of the consultation tables of the Copernicus User Forum.