Climate services

As a group we are able to offer end-to-end capability from design, manufacture and satellite launch to data analytics and integration of climate information into decision support services.

As defined by the Global Framework for Climate Services: “Climate services provide climate information to help individuals and organisations make climate smart decisions… They equip decision-makers in climate-sensitive sectors with better information to help society adapt to climate variability and change.”

Reducing methane is the strategic measure we can take now to keep global warming in-check and deliver a cleaner future for all. At Space4Climate member GHGSat, it’s in their DNA to take an active role in the challenge of climate change, to deliver the timely and objective data needed to identify and curb the sources of emissions globally.

UK analysis of data from the Japanese GOSAT satellite over many years is revealing detailed regional patterns in methane emissions. Predictions of future climate change need to understand and model global distributions of greenhouse gases, and the different processes that control their behaviour.

The Space4Climate community has worked with a leading peatland scientist to create an online observatory using data from space to monitor peatlands in the UK. 

An insight into Space4Climate members’ expertise supporting climate adaptation innovations for global food security, including the new Essential Agricultural Variables to be announced in the next year and an agricultural monitoring system for South Africa.

Space4Climate worked with the London Climate Change Partnership to start a conversation about the potential to obtain and use data to create a heat vulnerability index for UK cities, or a similar information product, to support implementation, measuring progress, and monitoring heat risk across a range of different needs and sectors.