CO2 Emission

Accurate measurement of greenhouse gas emissions is essential for understanding environmental impacts, supporting responsible land use, and enabling evidence-based climate and energy policy.

Dryland and geothermal environments present particular challenges for long-term CO₂ monitoring. High temperatures, spatial variability, changing surface conditions, and logistical constraints make conventional measurement systems costly and difficult to operate over extended periods. As a result, long-term and spatially representative data are often limited.

Neskortes has developed and operated cost-effective measurement systems designed to address these challenges. Building on earlier work focused on CO₂ emissions from dryland soils, our activities have expanded to demanding geothermal environments where reliable, long-term measurements are critical.

Over the past three years, Neskortes has conducted extensive CO₂ measurement campaigns in collaboration with Landsvirkjun at the Þeistareykir geothermal area in northeast Iceland. These measurements have involved long-term deployment of monitoring systems in high-temperature geothermal settings, including areas in the vicinity of geothermal power plant infrastructure. The work provides valuable insight into CO₂ fluxes associated with geothermal activity and supports both operational understanding and regulatory reporting requirements.

By combining robust field instrumentation, long-term data collection, and careful data handling, Neskortes delivers reliable and traceable CO₂ measurements under real-world conditions. This experience supports environmental monitoring, geothermal energy operations, and climate reporting, and contributes to improved understanding of emissions in complex natural and industrial environments.