After two virtual meetings, the final General Assembly of VERIFY will be held physically in Paris from 9 to 11 of May 2022.
It will also be possible to attend the meeting remotely.
Registration is open at https://www.eventleaf.com/e/VERIFY_Final_Meeting.
This final meeting will be the chance to conclude on such a large project, to share the main results that were obtained by each WP, to have a final networking meeting with the National Inventory Agencies and to discuss the futur and legacy of VERIFY.
Details :
Meeting dates : 9 May 2022 13:00 to 11 May 2022 13:00
Location : Espace Cordelier, 15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris (close to the Metro « Odéon » and the RER-B « Saint Michel ») and Online
Participants : VERIFY Consortium Members plus invited speakers
Registration : https://www.eventleaf.com/e/VERIFY_Final_Meeting

Agenda :
Day 1 - Monday 9 May 2022 - Link to connect : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/96514309469?pwd=dnlTY1JOd01SZHorZk92QXQ3YklaZz09 - Secret code : 9hifW5
* 12:00 - 18:00 : WPs (2-3-4-5-6) summary
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation | Recording |
| 12:00 - 12:55 | Welcome lunch |
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| 12:55 - 13:00 | Welcome and aganda | Philippe Peylin | https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/G3iGaSIsYdOEUiH | |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | WP2: Verification methods for fossil CO2 emissions - Summary of all achievements |
Hugo Denier van der Gon & Paul Palmer | Presentation_WP2 | |
| Inferring FFCO2 emissions using satellite observations of NO2 and CO | Audrey Fortems/Grégoire Broquet | |||
| Verifying TNO proxy/ffCO2 emission ratios and trends | Samuel Hammer/ Claudius Rosendahl | |||
| 14:15 - 15:30 | WP3: Verification methods for land CO2 fluxes & C stocks |
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Introduction - Summary |
Matthias Kuhnert | |||
| Cropland / grassland model results | Matthias Kuhnert | |||
| EFISCEN-SPACE forest model |
Sara Filipek |
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| LULUCF fluxes from BLUE model | Raphael Ganzenmueller | |||
| Lateral Fluxes | Pierre Regnier | |||
| Atmospheric Regional Inversion - CSR | Saqr Munassar | |||
| Attribution of NBP over Europe | Matthew McGrath | |||
| Eastern europe sink | Karina Winkler | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 - 17:15 |
WP4: Verification methods for CH4 and N2O emissions |
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| Summary of all achievements | Rona Thompson | WP4-Summary | ||
| CH4 high resolution inversions | Arjo Segers | WP4-CH4 High resolution inversions | ||
| Inversions using TROPOMI CH4 | Sander Houweling | WP4-Inversions using TROPOMI CH4 | ||
| N2O flux comparison | Matthias Kuhnert | WP4-N2O flux comparison | ||
| 17:15 - 18:00 | WP5-6 : Synthesis of observation-based GHG fluxes & inventories verification | |||
| Bottom-up fossil CO2 estimates | Robbie Andrew | Presentations_WP5-WP6 | ||
| Synthesis of bottom-up and top-down GHG budgets | Roxana Petrescu | |||
| Trends, drivers and prediction of fossil CO2 emissions | Robbie Andrew | |||
Day 2 - Tuesday 10 May 2022 - Link to connect : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99692106556?pwd=V3c1NUVtcEhiQ0VCN0xOK0tIMnNUdz09 - Secret code : r2Fj8D
* 8:45 - 12:20 : WPs (5-6-7-1-8) summary
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation | Recording |
| 8:45 - 10:00 |
WP5-6 : continuation |
https://sharebox.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/s/7mRTMRTGsvX5JbT |
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| Carbon-climate feedbacks | Matthew McGrath | Presentations_WP5-WP6 | ||
| GHG factsheets for EU27+UK, China and USA | Greet Janssens-Maenhout/Philippe Ciais | |||
| GHG factsheets for Indonesia | Paul Ruyssenaars/Peter Coenen | |||
| Project-level data and data infrastructure (tools and mapping facilities) | Patrick Brockmann/Philippe Peylin/Matthew McGrath | |||
| Regional uncertainty reduction maps linked to observation networks | Roxana Petrescu | |||
| Trends of GHG emissions from sources and sinks and progress towards reduction targets (NDCs) | Roxana Petrescu | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30 - 11:20 |
WP7: Inputs to international programs and society |
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| National contributions to global warming through CO2, CH4, N2O | Matthew Jones | Presentation_WP7 | ||
| Research need for Verifications | Adam Smith | |||
| Links to international efforts | Werner Kutsch/Emmanuel Salmon |
Presentation_Task7.2 | ||
| 11:20 - 11:50 |
WP1: MRV user requirements |
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| Summary of WP1 past activities | Lucia Perugini & Dirk Günther | Presentation_WP1 | ||
| Connection of VERIFY with the revised 2019 IPCC guidelines: General developments and the example of Switzerland | Stefan Reimann | Connection of VERIFY with the revised 2019 IPCC guidelines: General developments and the example of Switzerland | ||
| 11:50 - 12:20 | WP8: VERIFY management (final steps) & Dissemination and exploitation plan | Philippe Peylin/Géraud Moulas/Aurélie Paquirissamy | Presentation_WP8 | |
| 12:20 - 13:20 | Lunch |
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* 13:20 - 17:45 : Networking meeting
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation | Recording |
| 13:20 - 15:30 | Quo Vadis ? |
Greet Janssens-Maenhout | Quo Vadis ? | |
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Introduction: History of the networking activity |
Lucia Perugini | History of the networking activity | ||
| Introduction to the synthesis plots | Matthew McGrath | - | ||
| Feedback from all Inventory Agencies (CITEPA, EPA_IE, ISPRA, NIBIO, UBA, RIVM, EAA) on observation-based flux estimate |
Feedback from -UBA |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 - 17:45 |
Ways forward ? |
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| Community Inversion Framework : a potential tool to be used by inventory agencies | Antoine Berchet | Presentation_CIF | ||
| Following activities within CoCO2 | Richard Engelen | Following activities with CoCO2 | ||
| Example from UK inventory agency | P.Brown | Example from UK inventory agency | ||
| DG-CLIMA: futur view on GHG verification | Xavier Seront | DG-CLIMA : futur view on GHG verification | ||
| Overall discussion - supported by general questions |
Mentimeter | - | ||
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Aperitivo | |||
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Join Dinner | |||
Day 2 - Wednesday 11 May 2022 - Link to connect : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/91523157892?pwd=b3YzeGtwYkZOUVF4U1pKWm9RSnJpdz09 - Secret code : jJu76X
* 8:45 - 13:00 : Science talks & Futur and legacy of VERIFY
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation | Recording |
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8:45 - 10:10
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Science - Summary talks - 1 |
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| Mapping land use fluxes from global models to national inventories | Giacomo Grassi | Mapping land use | ||
| Synthesis of the African GHG budget | Mounia Mostefaoui | Synthesis of the African GHG budget | ||
| Update on near real time CO2 emissions and the question of Russian gas use in Europe | Philippe Ciais | - | ||
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Follow up Horizon Europe projects on Climate forcers: (EYE-CLIMA, AVENGERS, PARIS) |
Rona Thompson, Marko Scholze, Anita Ganesan |
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| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30 - 13:00 | Science - Summary talks - 2 | |||
| EO-based approaches for AFOLU | Martin Herold | EO-based approaches for AFOLU | ||
| Emerging climate risks and vulnerability of EU forests | Alessandro Cescatti | Emerging climate risks and vulnerability of EU forests | ||
| RECCAP2 - Europe | Ronny Lauerwald | RECCAP2 - Europe | ||
| A pilot top-down CO2 Budget based on the v10 OCO-2 MIP | Byrne Brendan | A pilot top-down CO2 Budget based on the v10 OCO-2 MIP | ||
| What’s behind high growth of atmospheric methane in 2020? | Shushi Peng | - | ||
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What did we learn from VERIFY + Next steps |
Philippe Peylin |
Summary-conclusion-final steps | ||
| Final remarks / recommendations from the EC | Frederik Accoe | - | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch box/departure | |||