The event focused on data sources and methodologies for estimating, mapping and analysing GHG emissions using geospatial data. It explored how alternative data sources, including Earth Observation data, and spatial modelling approaches could complement official statistics, enhance spatial resolution, and support robust emissions accounting. The workshop brought together international and national perspectives. It provided an overview of how Earth Observation data supported Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) GHG inventories by strengthening monitoring, reporting, and verification frameworks. The presentations moved from the global context to the European framework, and finally to a detailed national case study from France, illustrating practical applications and methodological innovations.
The workshop also broadened the perspective beyond production-based GHG emissions by presenting advances in consumption-based climate impact accounting, showing how life cycle assessment (LCA) frameworks could help capture emissions embedded in production and consumption systems.
