IG3IS Webinar Series (Q1-Q2, 2025): Supporting the city of Zurich on its way to carbon neutrality with observation-based CO2 emission estimates.

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(Europe/Zurich: 28 January 2025, 14:00 - 15:30)
Past event

Prof. Dr. Dominik Brunner is a group leader at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and adjunct professor at the Department for Environmental System Science at ETH Zurich. His group for Atmospheric Modelling and Remote Sensing at Empa is specialized in air quality modelling, inverse estimation of greenhouse gas emissions, trace gas remote sensing, and studies of urban air quality and climate. The group is developing and applying a range of advanced atmospheric models focusing on regional to urban scales using both Eulerian and Lagrangian techniques.

The city of Zurich has set itself the ambitious target of achieving climate neutrality by 2040, as determined by a recent public vote on the 'Net Zero 2040 Climate Protection Target'. In order to monitor progress towards this objective, the city administration is considering the implementation of a system to monitor CO2 emissions. Three such systems have been established within the European project ICOS-Cities, based on different combinations of observations and atmospheric transport modelling. The evaluation of these systems is currently ongoing, with a focus on their capability to quantify the CO2 emissions of the city, the contributions of individual sectors, and the complexity and costs of operating the measurement and modelling infrastructure over a prolonged period. In this presentation, an overview of the three systems established within ICOS-Cities will be provided, along with insights into the discussions with the city and the potential complementarity of such an emission monitoring system to their climate action plan. 

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