NCEO COP26 Activity
During COP26 we will be contributing to various events and climate conversations to highlight the work our Climate Scientists do and how their research can help to tackle climate change.
Exhibition Space
1st -12th November 2021
Space 4 Climate
When & Where
COP26 Green Zone
1st Floor, Planetarium
Event Info
A two week long exhibition space, with Space 4 Climate and Pufferfish to showcase the work done by the Earth Observation community.
Who’s Attending
Briony Turner, Climate Services Development Manager, hosted by NCEO, University of Reading
Sally Stevens, Communications Manager, Space4Climate
Event
2nd November 2021
What Does COP26 Mean for Leicester?
When & Where
17:30-19:45
Space Park Leicester
92 Corporation Road
Leicester
LE4 5SP
Event Info
In-person event, focusing on climate change and air quality from Space Park Leicester – our new headquarters
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Who’s Presenting
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18:05 – Video update with Professor John Remedios, Director of NCEO, live from the COP26 green zone
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18:10 – Talk 1 – Dr Rob Parker “What are Earth System models and how can they help us understand climate change?”
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18:30 – Talk 2 – Dr Cristina Ruiz Villena “Finding methane leaks from space”
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Event
3rd November 2021
Earth Information
Day
When & Where
15:15-17:30 (in person)
17:30 – 18:00 (virtual Poster Session)
Earth Information for Climate Action: Perspectives from the UK Presidency
The Scottish Event Campus (SEC)
Pen Y Fan Room, Blue Zone
Event Info
Earth Information Day 2021 will consist of an in-person dialogue session and a virtual poster session and focus on two themes, as guided by submissions, and in consideration of the mandates and the wider context of ongoing work under the UNFCCC. Posters will be available throughout the two weeks of the Conference in the Poster Gallery on the COP26 virtual conference platform
Presidency-led Earth information half day will offer the UK an opportunity to illustrate to a global audience how earth observation science can be used to tackle climate change and enable climate action through adaptation, mitigation, and international collaboration.
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Who’s Presenting
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MICROCARB MISSION – Professor Paul Palmer (NCEO University of Edinburgh)
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CLIMATE MITIGATION: Professor John Remedios (NCEO)
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CLIMATE ADAPTATIONS: – Dr Marie Fanny-Racault (NCEO & Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
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ADAPTATION & MITIGATION – Dr Qingling Wu (UCL) and Professor Phillip Lewis (NCEO, UCL)
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Event
3rd November 2021
Future of Climate Monitoring
When & Where
14.30 – 16.00
Blue Zone
Event Info
This session will set out the needs for climate modelling in the context of the negotiations at COP26, particularly to inform actions that will need to be taken over the next decade to limit temperature rise to 2.0 degree or below. For this iIt will consider the main improvement of climate modelling that will need to be addressed to reach this goal.
Who’s Presenting
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Event
6th November 2021
Panel Event – Monitoring the lungs of the world from space
When & Where
14:00-15:00
Science Show Theatre
COP26 Green Zone
Event Info
This event focussing on forests and trees as key nature-based solution: to showcase examples of greenhouse gas removal through forests/trees, to achieve concensus on progress and to share commitments to urgent action including observations of forest/tree change. Bringing together national delegations, international entities, space agencies and scientific experts
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Who’s Presenting
John Remedios, Director of National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Leicester,
Paul Palmer, NCEO – University of Edinburgh,
Mathias Disney, NCEO – University College London
Shaun Quegan, NCEO – University of Sheffield,
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Event
8th November 2021
UKRI Adaptation, Loss and Resilience Day
When & Where
COP26 Green Zone
Event Info
Exhibition Stand
Who’s attending
Heiko Balzter, NCEO – University of Leicester
Mathew Williams, NCEO – University of Edinburgh
Event
9th November 2021
Choosing and adapting to our possible future worlds
When & Where
COP26 Green Zone
Science and Innovation day
Event Info
Visual and interactive exhibits from NCEO
Who’s attending
tbc