Projet MEMO2 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Mitigation of climate change is a key scientific and societal challenge and also a headline target of the EU2020 strategy. Strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary to reach the global warming target agreed on at the 2015 United Nations Convention of Parties in Paris. Such emission reductions can only be achieved if sources are properly quantified and mitigation efforts are verified, but there are large discrepancies between official emission inventories and estimates derived from direct measurement of the air. MEMO2 will contribute to the EU2020 targets with a focus on methane (CH4), the second most important greenhouse gas after CO2 and one of Europe’s most important energy sources. CH4 emissions are a major contributor to Europe's global warming impact, but they are also a good target for climate change mitigation because of a rather short lifetime of 10 years (policy-maker compatible) and several sources offering possibilities of “no-regret” emission reduction (landfills, gas leaks, manure). However CH4 emissions are not well quantified yet. MEMO2 will bridge the gap between large-scale scientific estimates from in situ monitoring programs and the 'bottom-up' estimates of emissions from local sources that are used in the national reporting. MEMO2 will identify and evaluate CH4 emissions and support mitigation measures by I) developing new and advanced mobile methane measurements tools and networks, isotopic source identification, and modelling at different scales, and II) educating a new generation of “cross–thinking” scientists, which are able to effectively implement novel measurement and modelling tools in an interdisciplinary and intersectoral context. The 9 beneficiaries and 13 non-academic partners of MEMO2 offer a well–structured intersectoral training programme to equip young researchers with strong scientific and personal competencies, which will enhance their employability as well as European innovation capacity in the future.

Mots clés : methane, emission verification, mobile measurements, isotope measurements, atmospheric modeling

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 530453.52 €
- Picarro sarl (Suisse) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 525751.2 €
- University of Groningen (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255374.28 €
- Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 510748.56 €
- Shell (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Viridor waste management limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Heidelberg University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 249216.48 €
- AGH University of Krakow (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224137.44 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255374.28 €
- Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Afvalzorg deponie bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Whiffle weather finecasting b.v (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 546575.76 €
- National Physical Laboratory (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Isoprime ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Lund University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263659.32 €
- Oonkey (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- German Federal Environment Agency (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Avfall sverige (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Polish Geological Institute (Pologne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €