Carbon Mapper, a new nonprofit organization partnering with the University of Arizona, today announced a groundbreaking program to help improve understanding of and accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide emissions. The Carbon Mapper consortium also announced plans to deploy a satellite constellation to pinpoint, quantify and track methane and carbon dioxide emissions. This decade represents an all-hands-on-deck moment for humanity to make critical progress in addressing climate change, said
Riley Duren, research scientist in the UArizona Office of Research, Innovation and Impact and CEO of Carbon Mapper. Our mission is to help fill gaps in the emerging global ecosystem of methane and CO2 monitoring systems by delivering data that s timely, actionable and accessible for science-based decision making.