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ESA's Commitment to Sustainability 

ESA is dedicated to advancing Europe's space capabilities while ensuring that our activities benefit the world. We also prioritise protecting Earth's environment – guided by the Paris Climate Agreement and the European Green Deal we strive to lead and inspire through our sustainability strategy. While decreasing our own environmental impact, we empower our partners and the broader space sector to drive sustainable progress. Please join us forging a lasting, positive impact on our planet. 

Climate and Sustainability

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ESA asks suppliers for self-assessment of their levels of C…

16/12/2024 94 views 0 likes
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Rocket Garden
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Winners of Space for Sustainability Award attended Hera lau…

12/11/2024 61 views 0 likes
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2024 ESA-EISC S4S Award
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Winners receive Space for Sustainability Award at EISC

01/10/2024 138 views 0 likes
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Nitrogen dioxide plumes over Saudi Arabia
Applications

Detecting nitrogen dioxide from power plants with Sentinel-2

05/08/2024 3023 views 34 likes
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Space for Europe
Enabling & Support

Ecodesigning satellites for the future

01/08/2024 1084 views 11 likes
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GOCE in orbit
Space Safety

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 4360 views 22 likes
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Living Planet Symposium 2025
Applications

Save the date: ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025

24/06/2024 11572 views 88 likes
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Arctic diatoms
Applications

Will climate change turn the Arctic green?

18/06/2024 2821 views 9 likes
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Classifying areas affected by wildfires
Applications

AI for wildfire detection

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Detecting oil spills
Applications

AI for marine anomaly detection

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Destination Earth (DestinE), is an initiative of the European Union, that aims to develop a digital twin, or replica, of our planet.
Applications

A milestone in digital Earth modelling

10/06/2024 2084 views 18 likes
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Sentinel-5 in all its glory
Applications

Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite

06/06/2024 1838 views 9 likes
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Zero Debris key visual
Space Safety

Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero De…

06/06/2024 3084 views 9 likes
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Zero Debris key visual
Space Safety

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 4255 views 18 likes
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EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance
Applications

EarthCARE mission kit

17/05/2024 4028 views 48 likes
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ɸ-sat AI
Applications

AI in Earth observation: a force for good

09/05/2024 2992 views 15 likes
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Agency

Our Ocean from Space opens in Barcelona

09/04/2024 1408 views 48 likes
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Accounting for vegetation in the climate puzzle
Applications

Vegetation gets a boost with data from space

27/03/2024 2174 views 24 likes
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Space for Sustainability award
Agency

Launch of the 2024 Space for Sustainability Award

06/03/2024 745 views 2 likes
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Blanketed Po Valley
Applications

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 10306 views 37 likes
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Brazilian tropical forest
Applications

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 2516 views 62 likes
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Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system
Applications

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 33663 views 108 likes
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Components of the climate system
Applications

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 3914 views 56 likes
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Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017
Applications

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 4472 views 104 likes
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CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view
Space Safety

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 23349 views 82 likes
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Space for Sustainability Award Winners 2021-22 with astronaut Jean-François Clervoy
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Meet the winners of the Space for Sustainability Award 2021…

12/05/2023 462 views
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Award ceremony for the Space for Sustainability Award
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Space for Sustainability Award winners attend EISC

20/09/2022 963 views 3 likes
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Vega and Ariane 5 launch pads at Europe Spaceport
Agency

Greening CSG

08/06/2022 658 views 3 likes
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Agency

Evaluating the European space sector carbon footprint for t…

08/06/2022 2839 views 5 likes
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Agency

ESA Materiality Matrix

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Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit
Space Safety

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 6527 views 83 likes
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Space Safety

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 4821 views 64 likes
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Geostationary orbit
Space Safety

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 65934 views 194 likes
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