HORIZON EUROPE IM4CA project
IM4CA
Objectives
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. Based on this information, 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 modeling 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.