Why space-based satellites are crucial to achieve climate change goals
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A new report, led by researchers at the University of Bristol, outlines the importance of space-based Earth Observation satellites in monitoring the causes, effects and management of global warming. The report aims to drive useful policy change at the 26th ‘conference of the parties’ (COP26) meeting to be hosted this November, in Glasgow.
Countries around the globe initially met to discuss the threat of global warming at the first COP meeting in 1995, agreeing on a need to limit greenhouse gas emissions to prevent harmful human-induced climate change. Two decades later, the outcome of the 21st COP meeting was the landmark Paris Agreement, signed by 190 countries, which came into force in 2016.