We are the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Office, the focal point for the Agency’s climate activities. Using satellite observations, we develop the global, long-term data records that evidence our changing climate and inform international action.

ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is a major research and development effort that generates global, decades-long satellite data records to track and understand key aspects of the Earth climate system, and known as Essential Climate Variables.

These data records support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Panel on Climate Change to monitor, assess and address changes to Earth’s climate system.