EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
EUMETSAT
climate
statement
On 19 October 2022, the final day
of the Global Climate Observing
System conference in Darmstadt,
Germany, EUMETSAT issued a
statement on its commitment
to climate monitoring. The
statement highlighted four key
ways EUMETSAT works with
global partners to monitor
climate change and its impacts.
Read the rest of the
statement on how the
organisation contributes
to climate action on the
EUMETSAT website.
www.eumetsat.int/statement-climate-action
The Earth is facing a threat.
The concentration of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere is rising, fuelled by increased emissions.
This is causing a substantial rise in temperature
across the globe.
Take the Arctic, currently warming more than two
times faster than the global average. Or consider
Greenland where, since 2000, temperatures in
certain regions have surged to more than 8°C above
the monthly average, according to the Copernicus
Climate Change Service. And looking back still
further reveals that, over the past 40 years, marine
heatwaves in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have
become considerably more frequent.
The steps we take today matter.
As Europe’s operational satellite agency, EUMETSAT
is committed to taking the necessary steps to
address climate change and its consequences
through cooperative action. In fact, this commitment
is built into EUMETSAT’s core. Both its founding
convention and mission statement put forth the
operational monitoring of the climate and the
detection of global climatic changes as one of the
agency’s fundamental objectives. The climate data
EUMETSAT collects and processes enable experts to
better understand climate change and policymakers
to mitigate further damage to the planet.
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