Climate: Achievements

The Early Achievements – representing the 100 First Steps to GEOSS – have been contributed by GEO Members and Participating Organizations. Their presentation to Ministers and senior officials at the Cape Town Ministerial Summit on 30 November marks a major milestone in the construction of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

Click on the Early Achievements below to learn more about how GEOSS will strengthen decision making in the field of climate variability and change:

• Anthropogenic Climate Change Research
• APEC Climate Center for Information Services (APCC)
• ClimDevAfrica Initiative
• EuroCryoClim - European contribution to a global cryospheric climate monitoring system
• Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases
• Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
• Improving projections of sea-level rise and variability
• Network for the Detection of Mesopause Change (NDMC)
• Ocean Surface Topography
• Ozone Depletion and Recovery and Climate Change
• Parasol, Calipso and the A-Train
• Seasonal Climate Prediction
• The Cryosphere Observing System: Legacy of the International Polar Year 2007-2008
• The GCOS Upper-Air Reference Network, GRUAN
• State of the Climate– A GEO Achievement
• World Climate Research Programme and Droughts