The CO2M (Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission) space mission is a Sentinel 7 from the Copernicus program. Copernicus is the main Earth observation program of the European Commission, which provides natural disaster and climate monitoring.

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CO2M will the first mission to quantify with a high accuracy the carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere caused by human activities.

The main purpose of this mission is to monitor the evolution of CO2 in the atmosphere. It will also measure the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration in the atmosphere. The measurements will be based on a near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectrometer and it will be realised by detecting the spectral absorption of CO2 in the infrared sunlight reflected from earth's ground.

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Thus, more accurate data will be measures with this mission and it will make possible to quantify the emissions locally, for each country, region, city, ... The acquisitions will be used in future Paris agreements in order to define concrete objective to limit and control the gaseous emissions.

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The Space Center of Liège (CSL) is involved for the CO2I instrument which will measure the CO2 density. Indeed, CSL is in charge of the design, manufacturing and validation of the Calibration Unit.

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