{"id":3547,"date":"2026-08-04T16:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:36:15","slug":"icos-cities-paul-success-story-featured-on-the-eu-commission-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/2026\/08\/04\/icos-cities-paul-success-story-featured-on-the-eu-commission-website\/","title":{"rendered":"ICOS Cities &#8211; PAUL success story featured on the EU Commission website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ICOS Cities-PAUL project has revolutionized urban climate governance by combining traditional emission inventory data with high-density atmospheric sensor networks, slashing reporting lags from two years to just weeks. Deployed across pilots in Paris, Munich, and Zurich, and encompassing a network of 15 European citie, including Barcelona, the initiative provided near-real-time, street-level &#8220;ground truth&#8221; to verify municipal climate policies, pinpoint hidden emission leaks, and help cities reliably track their progress toward the EU\u2019s 2030 net-zero targets. By pairing empirical top-down atmospheric monitoring with standard bottom-up statistics, the project not only validated major emissions reductions in real-time, but also established accessible toolkits for resource-limited cities and co-authored new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) guidelines to standardize urban greenhouse gas monitoring worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read the full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/en\/strategy\/strategy-2020-2024\/environment-and-climate\/european-green-deal\/green-deal-projects-support\/green-deal-success-stories\/real-time-emissions-monitoring-stronger-urban-climate-action\">Real-time emissions monitoring for stronger urban climate action | Research and Innovation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acess the<strong><em> Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System: Urban Emission Observation and Monitoring Good Research Practice Guidelines<\/em><\/strong> clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59327\/WMO\/GAW\/314\">here<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICOS Cities-PAUL project has revolutionized urban climate governance by combining traditional emission inventory data with high-density atmospheric sensor networks, slashing reporting lags from two years to just weeks. Deployed across pilots in Paris, Munich, and Zurich, and encompassing a network of 15 European citie, including Barcelona, the initiative provided near-real-time, street-level &#8220;ground truth&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3145,"featured_media":3548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/atmosphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}