Core activities

Goal: Establish a trusted, authoritative hub for critical carbon-cycle data, ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and scientific integrity.

Expert-Driven Data Center

Operate as a comprehensive data hub linking key datasets that enable global-to-local tracking of carbon flows among reservoirs and sectors.

Data Stewardship & Preservation

Safeguard essential government and research datasets to ensure their continued accessibility and long-term scientific value.

Enabling data access

Goal: Expand global participation in carbon observation by empowering all nations—especially low- and middle-income countries—to contribute to, and benefit from, a coordinated observing system.

Technology Transfer & Deployment

Make state-of-the-art observing technologies available and deployable worldwide to close geographic and technical gaps.

Expert Collaboration & Support Network

Build a collaborative network of subject matter experts to help countries meet Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) requirements and strengthen technical capacity.

Global capacity building

Goal: Innovate observation techniques and expand observational platforms to improve precision, resolution, and global coverage.

Platform Expansion

Integrate observations across diverse platforms—aircraft, ships, towers, vehicles, buoys, floats, and autonomous systems.

Instrumentation Advancement

Lead R&D efforts to enhance the precision, durability, and affordability of carbon measurement technologies.

Advancing Observing Technology

Translating Observations to action

Goal: Transform observations into actionable insights by accurately attributing atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ changes to specific natural and anthropogenic processes.

Stakeholder-Driven Analysis Framework

Develop tools and analysis pipelines that directly inform policy-makers, scientists, and other stakeholders.

Emission Tracking & Verification

Deliver a comprehensive, integrated framework for emission tracking and verification, combining bottom-up inventories with top-down atmospheric observations.