Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE)
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (July to December 2023)
Reporting Period: July to December 2023
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:0 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:100%
Total Energy Consumption:177.17 MWh/year
ESG Focus Areas
- Sustainability
Environmental Achievements
- Reduced data transfers and fostered sustainability by enabling immediate access to full mission data online.
- Zero CO2 emissions due to the use of 100% renewable energy in data centers.
Social Achievements
- Attracted almost 85,000 registered active users in 2023.
- Provided streamlined data access services (Sentinel Hub and openEO) resulting in over 150 million requests processed by Sentinel Hub and over 7.3 million requests processed through openEO.
Governance Achievements
- Established a unique European service team to address Copernicus Data Access requirements.
- Implemented open-source technology for easy interoperability.
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- More data, more services, and an even more user-friendly environment.
Environmental Challenges
- Initial optimization of data downloads at unprecedented data rates.
- Ensuring effective and sustainable use of data.
- Addressing the 10-fold increase in data and new free and open data access policy.
- Maintaining high availability and persistently well-rated customer support.
Mitigation Strategies
- Optimizing data downloads for the Copernicus Open Data Hub.
- Making data available in public clouds (DIASes) for more analytics and insights.
- Establishing a unique European service team.
- Continuous optimization efforts to adapt the system to heavy user traffic.