ISRO and French space agency unite world’s Space Agencies to face Climate Challenge

Q.  ISRO and which country’s space agency has united world’s space agencies for fighting climate change?
- Published on 06 Jun 16

a. USA
b. France
c. Russia
d. India alone achieved this.

ANSWER: France
 
  • For the first time, under the impetus of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency (CNES), space agencies of more than 60 countries agreed to engage their satellites, to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
  • The goal now will be to inter-calibrate these satellite data so that they can be combined and compared over time. In other words, it is to make the transition to closely coordinated and easily accessible ‘big space data’.
  • Out of the 50 essential climate variables being monitored today, 26 - including rising sea level, sea ice extent and greenhouse gas concentrations in all layers of the atmosphere - can be measured only from space.

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