This section provides insights on policy trends that will help the user navigate and understand the dynamically evolving Earth Observation sector linked to the EU policies (Common Agricultural Policy, European Water Framework Directive, Europe 2050, European Green Deal, EU Biodiversity Strategy, among others).
The articles are updated regularly and injected from different projects.
Under its Policy Observatory, EARSC is monitoring relevant EU policies and advocating for increased use of the EO services to support policy-makers. EARSC gathers the inputs of its members on how the downstream EO sector can contribute to various EU initiatives. These statements, reflecting the industry's views and recommendations, are submitted in response to the European Commission's open consultations with the objective to include EO capabilities in support of the achievements of European policies.
| DATE | CONSULTATION | EARSC Statement |
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| 8 September 2022 | Update of the EU maritime security strategy and its action plan | |
24 August 2022 | ||
| 29 July 2022 | The European Earth Observation (EO) Services industry welcomes the ambitious objectives set by the New European Forest Strategy alongside other EU Policy initiatives aiming at improving the quantity and quality of Europe's forests by 2030. Earth Observation capabilities, by delivering near-real time, consistent and tree-level information of the world's forests are a crucial tool to deliver Europe's forests goals. EARSC members are convinced that the urgency to act calls for action; it can be done now, at scale and with unprecedented precision, at high-cost efficiency. Against this context, the EARSC Position Paper on forest management (attached) strongly advocates for the systematic integration of EO data and services as operational tools in the design, implementation and evaluation of all ongoing and upcoming legislative and policy initiatives in the field of environmental protection, with particular regards to forests, biodiversity and the sustainability of supply chains | |
| July 2022 | EARSC Position to the EU Regulation on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942 | |
| June 2022 | Support letter for EU - MEPs & Council Earth Observation Technological Feasibility Assessment “Proposal for a Regulation on Deforestation-free Products" | |
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| EU Forests- New EU Framework for Forest Monitoring and Strategic Plans | |
| Certification of carbon removals- EU rules | |
April 2022 | EARSC Position on the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products | |
| New rules to prevent methane leakage in the energy sector | |
| EU Solar Energy initiative | |
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| Soil health – protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils | |
| Revising the EU rules on illegal discharges from ships |
| DATE | CONSULTATION | EARSC STATEMENT |
|---|---|---|
| Count your transport emissions- "CountEmissions EU" | |
| Nov 2021 | Examples of Earth Observation Based Services for the EU Forestry Strategy | |
| EU Strategy for Space Traffic Management | |
| EU renewable energy rules- review | |
| Air quality - revision of EU rules | |
| Sustainable EU Food system- new initiative |
Thematic Area | Topic | Link to Article |
|---|---|---|
Built environment | soon to come | |
Infrastructure & installations | Solar water heating systems | Solar Water Heating Systems - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) |
| Wind turbines | Wind turbine manufacturing technologies - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
| Smart turbine technologies | Smart turbine technologies - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
| Pumped-storage hydroelectricity | Pumped-storage hydroelectricity - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
| Photovoltaics | Photovoltaics - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
| Concentrated solar power | Concentrated Solar Power - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
Transport networks | soon to come | |
| Waste | soon to come |
Thematic Area | Topic | Link to Article |
|---|---|---|
| Metocean | Altimetry | soon to come |
| Coastal areas | Algae bloom | soon to come |
Marine ecosystem | Marine Strategy Framework Directive | Policy, market and technology trends in EO-assisted water resource management – e-shape Sustainability & Upscaling (e-shape.eu) |
| Marine Spatial Planning Directive | soon to come | |
| Integrated Maritime Policy | soon to come | |
| Aquaculture | soon to come |
| Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing | soon to come | |
| Vessel detection | soon to come |
| AIS | soon to come | |
| Arctic shipping | Earth Observation strategies for Arctic Shipping - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) | |
| Marine pollution | International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships | soon to come |
Thematic Areas | Topic | Link to Article |
|---|---|---|
| Urban heat islands | soon to come |
| Greenhouse gases | THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: Monitoring greenhouse gases from space – e-shape Sustainability & Upscaling |
Thematic Area | Topic | Link to Article |
|---|---|---|
Disasters & geohazards (emergency) | Civil protection mechanism | EO achievements for disaster resilience bring new business opportunities – e-shape Sustainability & Upscaling (e-shape.eu) |
| Wildfires | Foreseeing Wildfires with data - Parsec Accelerator (parsec-accelerator.eu) |
Thematic Areas | Topic | Link to Article |
|---|---|---|
| NOx monitoring | THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: Monitoring greenhouse gases from space – e-shape Sustainability & Upscaling (e-shape.eu) |
| Air quality | Health check from above – e-shape Sustainability & Upscaling (e-shape.eu) |
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