Earth Information Day 2023 provided a dialogue for exchanging information on the state of the global climate system and developments in systematic observation (FCCC/SBSTA/2019/2 para. 58)
It comprised a plenary session with an opening segment and three panel sections, as well as a World Café (WC) session.
The choice of topics for these two events were guided by submissions received from Parties and non-Party stakeholders (NPS) and reflected systematic observation objectives, as well as the wider context of ongoing work under the UNFCCC.
Please view the webcast of the Opening Segment and Panel Sessions here
- EID is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 3 December (these are tentative and we would advise you to check the daily programme and CCTV):
- Plenary session: 10:00 to 13:00 in Plenary two - al Ghafat
- World Café session: 15:00-17:00 in Meeting Room 36
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- Plenary session: 10:00 to 13:00 in Plenary two
Opening
- Harry Vreuls, Chair of the SBSTA – moderate session and makes welcoming remarks
- Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)
- Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
- Dr Johan Stander, Director of Services Department, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- Tahanyat Satti, GIS Analyst at Ministry of Climate Change, Pakistan, YOUNGO representative
- Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, Director at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Panel Session
Panel 1: Updates on the state of the climate and the global climate observing system
Panel 2: Observations for mitigation
Panel 3: Observations for climate risks and resilience
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Value of Earth observations to support risk assessment and resilience
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Yana Gevorgyan, Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
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Link to Presentation
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Early Warning For All and The Maldives
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Thibyan Ibrahim, Assistant Director, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Maldives
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Link to Presentation
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Ecosystem monitoring and interlinkages between adaptation and disaster risk reduction
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Angela Andrade, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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Link to Presentation
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Observation and forecasting for coastal resilience in Indonesia
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Dwikorita Karnawati, Director of Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Indonesia
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Link to Presentation
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Earth Observation based operational services for Africa
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Lisa-Maria Rebelo, Lead Scientist, Digital Earth Africa
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Link to Presentation
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- Plenary session: 10:00 to 13:00 in Plenary two
World Café
Moderators: Elizabeth Bush and Patricia Achieng Nying'uro - Research and Systematic Observations co-facilitators
Preliminary key elements of the World Cafe Tables as provided by notetakers
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World Café topic
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Expert
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Facilitator
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| 1 |
The role of national delegates to support building the global observing system for climate
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Carlos Fuller, Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nation
Florence Rabier, Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
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Markus Repnik, Director of the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) WMO
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Why we need a truly global observing system
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Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Director - Global Greenhouse Gas Watch
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Karen St Germain, Earth Science Division Director, NASA
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Global climate indicators – from the global observing system to knowledge transfer at the science-policy nexus – what can we further do?
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Karina von Schuckmann - oceanographer at Mercator Ocean International
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Thelma Krug, Chair of GCOS Steering Committee
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Role of observations in support of national reporting
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Jean-Noel Thepaut, Director of Copernicus Services at ECMWF
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Paul Palmer, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Director of the Centre for Exoplanet Science
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What are the information needs for the 2nd Global Stocktake (GST2)?
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Frank Martin Seifert,
Earth Observation Programme - Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, ESA
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Joanna Post, Head, Ocean Observations and Services Section UNESCO-IOC
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Public-private sector partnerships in GHG observations
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Aaron Addison, Executive Director, World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)
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Eric Siegel, chief innovation officer of the Ocean Frontier Initiative
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Understanding Tipping points and observation needs
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Toste Tanhua, Chemical oceanographer, Head of Research, at GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
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Stefan Ruchti,
Director, Climate Negotiations and Arctic, ICCI
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Cryosphere, mountains, and adaptation
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Izabella Koziell, Deputy Director General at Int. Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Annie Dade, Head of communications, Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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Carolina Adler, Executive Director of Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and GEO Mountains
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Building observations and understanding of ocean acidification and deoxygenation
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Lisa Levin, Professor of biological oceanography and marine ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Steve Widdicombe, Director of Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Observations for disaster risk reduction
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Anna Pirani, Senior Research Associate, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC)
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Kate Calvin, NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor & co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Bureau's Seventh Assessment Report Cycle
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| 11 |
Indigenous knowledge and data
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Oumou Dicko, Indigenous Knowledge Holder
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Pasang Dolma Sherpa, executive director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research and Development (CIPRED)
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Community engagement in contributing to systematic observation (ACE/Youth)
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Anne Molin – Secretary General, Hack for Earth
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