2025.02.17
Support for the GOSAT side event at COP29
Image of the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite, GOSAT (JAXA)
The Ministry of the Environment and Chuo University are promoting environmental cooperation by using a Japanese-made satellite to monitor efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Asian and Caucasian countries.
On November 14, 2024, the OECC supported the COP29 side event organized by Chuo University featuring the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) titled “Transparency through GOSAT: Proposal of a New Verification Mechanism to The World”. This meeting brought together many environmental ministers and vice ministers from Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as IPCC and UNFCCC officials.
Scenes from the side event.
Mr. Matsuzawa (Director-General for Global Environmental Affairs, MOEJ) being interviewed for the NHK program “NHK Special”.
As the Paris Agreement requires each country to submit a Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), the Ministry of the Environment and Chuo University have proposed using GOSAT to support the preparation of BTRs by each government in verifying the accuracy of the BTR. In Mongolia, GHG observation data (atmospheric concentration) from GOSAT was used for on-site inventory verification, and the results were adopted in the Biennial Update Report (BUR), which publishes GHG emissions.
The initiative was compiled as a paper by a leading researcher from Chuo University and accepted by a scientific journal published by the Nature group. The paper provides a template for policy support for science and technology.
Image of the weather model (WRF) used for comparison with the local inventory (CORDEX)
Scientific Reports – Enhancing scientific transparency in national CO2 emissions reports via satellite-based a posteriori estimates
