The Horizon-Europe 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. EU-funded research project under the Horizon Europe program.
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The IM4CA project will develop methods and deliver scientific knowledge and data on the regional and global sources and sinks of atmospheric methane in the past, present, and future.
IM4CA will provide recommendations on effective measures to mitigate the adverse climate impacts of atmospheric methane as required by the Paris agreement and the Global Methane Pledge.
Objective 1: Strengthen methane mitigation policy world-wide with actionable information on local methane emissions and key driving processes.
Objective 2: Provide the EU with the measurement and modelling capacity needed to monitor its methane emissions and assess the progress towards its emission reduction targets.
Objective 3: Explore and understand climate feedbacks on natural methane sources and sinks.
Objective 4: Elucidate the role of changing atmospheric methane sinks in observed growth rate variations.
Objective 5: Improve the accuracy of climate scenarios by resolving the controversy about the causes for the recent growth rate variations in global methane.
To achieve these objectives we address a selection of key uncertainties that have thus far limited the progress towards these goals by:
i) building up critical new infrastructure for monitoring methane emissions in Europe and Tropical Africa,
ii) developing methodology for efficient use of existing and upcoming satellites for measuring methane and the land surface properties needed for characterizing and attributing its emissions,
iii) translating the knowledge obtained into reliable projections of future methane and efficient emission mitigation scenarios.
In doing so, the IM4CA project will enable a breakthrough in meeting the work program challenge of enhancing the quantification and understanding of natural and anthropogenic methane emissions and sinks. It will provide enhanced European assessment capacity of short- and long-term changes in methane sources and sinks integrating information from multi platforms and novel observations and transfer that capacity into actionable information needed to combat climate change.
The IM4CA activities are organized in 7 scientific Work Packages (WP’s) that are carried out in parallel under coordination of WP8:
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IM4CA Deliverables
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Deliverable 8.1: Risk and Quality Management Plan
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European Commission, EUROPEAN CLIMATE, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT EXECUTIVE AGENCY (CINEA), Project 101183460.