The system provides real-time information and has been developed with the support of the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile (CMM) and financed by the EUROCLIMA Program.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has made available the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Satellite Monitoring System, a free access web portal that aims to "facilitate coherence and ambition between policies and results, by providing real-time information" on trends in GHG concentrations and CO2 emissions.
The system provides information on trends in GHG concentrations and CO2 flows in Latin American countries, their main cities, and subregions, and has been developed by ECLAC's Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division with the support of the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile (CMM), financed by the EUROCLIMA Program.
The System operates with information provided by Low Earth Orbiting Satellites (LEOs), which allows monitoring those gases regulated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4) and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2). But it also monitors six other atmospheric pollutant gases: Total Ozone (O3), Tropospheric Ozone (O3), Aerosols (AI), Sulfur Dioxide (SO 2), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Formaldehyde (HCHO).
The portal allows to request a report by selected gas, city, country, or for Latin American regions of interest to users, allowing also to filter by a range of dates. All this information can be downloaded in PDF format or the point file (raster) to be entered into the GIS application (ArcGIS, QGIS, etc.), in GeoTIFF format.
This system is an input that allows States to "compare the results of climate policy and changes action in the trajectories of CO2 emissions, and of policies to mitigate the pollution of other gases and particles of local interest, on the territory". Interested parties can access the CO2 Emissions Monitoring System here and the Greenhouse Gas Concentration Monitoring System, and other gases and particles, here.
More information at the following link: https://www.cepal.org/en/subtopics/climate-change/satellite-monitoring-system-greenhouse-gases-ghg