Copernicus needs our support

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[h=3]Copernicus: One Program *#8211; 1000s of applications[/h]Over the past two decades, the European Union has funded and built a strong Space Programme that has provided vital scientific information to millions of citizens in Europe and all over the world. Copernicus, EU*#8217;s free and open Earth observation program*(of e.g. atmosphere, sea, climate change, and for emergency management) has been of immense benefit to scientists, emergency responders, civil servants, entrepreneurs, climate change researchers among others, all across the world. Data from the Copernicus program has been used for a wide variety of applications including

• Anti-drug trafficking operations in Turkey
• Predicting air-quality in Riga, Latvia
• Forest tree carbon mapping in Spain
• Calculating the solar potential of rooftops in Toulouse, France
• Study the impact of wildfires in Asia
• Modeling plastic pollution in the Mediterranean sea

It goes without saying that Earth Observation programs like Copernicus offering free and open data are crucial for the long-term future of our society.*Without such programs and the data that they provide, it would not be possible to tackle the biggest challenge of our generation *#8211; climate change.[h=3]Copernicus needs our support*[/h]All of this has been possible thanks to the backing and financial support of the European Union. In its Multiannual Financial Framework (MMF) for 2014-2020, the EU had*earmarked almost