ICOS Cities Talks
ICOS Cities Talks is a series of 30 minutes online presentations and discussions around topics related to greenhouse gas measurement and climate change in urban landscapes.
AGENDA 2024
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ABOUT ICOS CITIES TALKS
WHAT? Experts representing various fields present a current topic, which is followed by a Q&A session and a discussion. More speakers and topics coming up in autumn/winter 2023 will be announced here. Stay tuned by signing up for our newsletter!
WHY? The aim of ICOS Cities Talks is to share knowledge within the ICOS Cities project but also invite students and other professionals to learn about current climate change related topics.
WHERE? The webinars are organised online on Zoom - a link is provided when registering.
WHEN? The talks take place on Wednesdays once or twice per month.
HOW? Check the agenda for more information and register. The registration link is personal, so please sign up using your own name for each ICOS Cities Talk.
100 Climate Neutral Cities
Previous ICOS Cities talk | October 2024
Wiebke Pankauke, deputy Head of Unit for Future Urban and Mobility Systems, European Commission DG RTD
Olympics as a catalyst to decarbonise city transport systems
Previous ICOS Cities talk | September 2024
Anais Fabre, French PhD candidate, Griffith University in Brisbane (Australia)
Climate Positive Olympic Games - Brisbane 2023
Previous ICOS Cities talk | September 2024
Dr Tony Heynen, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
Exploring innovation in climate governance
Previous ICOS Cities talk and panel discussion | March 2024
Talk 1: Kristine Kern (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space)
Talk 2: Núria Solsona Caba (Aalto University)
Panel discussion: Kristine Kern, Miranda Schreurs, Rene Estermann
Developing services for urban GHG monitoring systems
Previous ICOS Cities talk | July 2023
Tatu Mattila, Aalto University
Mapping future emissions based on city climate plans
Previous ICOS Cities talk | May 2023
Ivonne Albarus, Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE)
Towards real-time monitoring of climate action plans
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2023
Kimberly Mueller (NIST) & Amewu Antoinette Mensah (UGZ)
Monitoring and verification of emissions in urban areas
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2023
Prof. Tuukka Petäjä, Dr. Glen Peters & Dr. Claudio D’Onofrio
Urban emission monitoring - general overview of current options
Previous ICOS Cities talk | January 2023
Dr. Dominik Brunner (EMPA), Dr. Ingrid Super (TNO), Dr. Jeroen Kuenen (TNO)
The European drought of 2022 through the eyes of the biosphere
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2022
Auke van der Woude, PhD student, University of Groningen and Wageningen University
Foundations of the ICOS Carbon Portal services
Previous ICOS Cities webinar | November 2022
Oleg Mirzov,
Ex-Physicist, Software Developer, Carbon Portal
How the Ukraine crisis impacts energy and climate policies in the EU
Previous ICOS Cities talk | June 2022
Professor Miranda Schreurs,
Chair of Climate and Environmental Policy, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich
How to keep your data tidy, safe and reusable
Previous ICOS Cities talk | May 2022
Maggie Hellström,
PhD, Research Data Management Specialist, ICOS Carbon Portal
Urban airflow/meteorology and meteorological modelling in cities
Previouos ICOS Cities talk | April 2022
Sue Grimmond,
Professor of Urban Meteorology
Radiocarbon as a tracer for the source and fate of fossil fuel CO2 emissions
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2022
Jocelyn Turnbull,
PhD Geological Sciences & Senior Research Scientist
The roles of design in long-term sustainability transformations
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2022
Dr. İdil Gaziulusoy,
Sustainability Scientist, Design Researcher & Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design
100 climate-neutral cities by 2030 - by and for the citizens
Previous ICOS Cities talk | February 2022
Matthew Baldwin,
Deputy Director-General of DG MOVE, European Commission
How to organise productive online and hybrid meetings
Previous ICOS Cities talk | January 2022
Jonas Rajanto,
Grape People
Surveying attitudes towards climate change and energy preferences among citizens
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2021
Rory Fitzgerald, ESS ERIC
Diana Zavala-Rojas, ESS ERIC
New ways to use eddy covariance to map landscape fluxes
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2021
Professor Ankur Desai,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Oslo’s climate budget - a tool to achieve ambitious climate goals
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Astrid Ståledotter Landstad,
Climate Agency, City of Oslo
City emission inventories – state of the art and challenges
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Ingrid Super, TNO
Olivier Perrussel, Airparif
Dominik Brunner, EMPA
Urban eddy covariance flux measurements
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Professor Kenneth Davis,
Pennsylvania State University
PAUL, Pilot Applications in Urban Landscapes - Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases (ICOS Cities), has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101037319.