Coming soon: 18th SCO France Quarterly Meeting

Published on 29/08/2025

From coastal protection to agricultural water management and urban renaturation, satellite data fuels all initiatives to adapt to climate change. On Thursday, September 18, 2025, tune in to the 18th SCO France Quarterly Meeting to discover three SCO projects working in these areas in France and West Africa.

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Heat records are being broken year after year, and now month after month. In their wake, all territories have no alternative but to adapt: here to better manage water resources that are becoming scarce but which crops need to grow, there to lower the thermometer that is exploding in certain urban neighborhoods, or even to compensate for the rise of the ocean that is eroding coastlines and their infrastructure.

Join us on Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. for the 18^th SCO France Quarterly Meeting, featuring three SCO projects that use satellite data to design tools that will enable cities and regions to plan, design, and implement adaptation strategies.

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The day's programme

Preamble: 25 years of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters by Émilie Bronner, CNES representative to the Charter's Executive Secretariat
WACA-VAR: How can we help West African coastlines sustainably manage the many impacts of climate change they are experiencing? As the spatial component of the interdisciplinary WACA program, the SCO WACA-VAR project extracts satellite data to aid decision-making in terms of vulnerability and coastal risk management policies.
💡 WACA-VAR in the field – July 2, 2025
EO4AgriWater: What indicators can help agriculture and water stakeholders cope with droughts? Developed in close collaboration with rural stakeholders by MEOSS and INSIGHT, with the help of researchers from CESBIO and IRD, the EO4AgriWater tool monitors crop drought, irrigation, and water reservoirs.
Target 2050: We know that renaturation stores carbon and strengthens urban resilience, but local authorities lack the tools to assess its impact. Filling this gap, SCO Target 2050 makes it possible to simulate, rate, and optimize development projects according to three key criteria: carbon neutrality, zero artificialization, and adaptation to +4°C.

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Launched in June 2021, the SCO France Quarterly are regular meetings to bring the community together and enable each project to showcase its progress, inspire others and create synergies.

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