Press Releases

Species Monitoring Seen Helping Slow Extinctions

Oslo, 10 April 2008 - A three-day meeting of 100 scientists and officials in Potsdam, Germany, will end on Thursday with a deal on building blocks for a "Biodiversity Observation Network" for animals and plants facing threats such as pollution or climate change... Download full text
For more information on the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network, see the GEO BON home page.

Ambitious new monitoring network will advance international efforts to rescue the world’s vanishing biological diversity

Potsdam, Germany, 3 April 2008 – Some 90 leading scientific and intergovernmental organizations are joining forces here from 8-10 April (Tuesday to Thursday) to start building a global Biodiversity Observation Network that will monitor and assess the status of the world’s species and ecosystems in order to prevent their further loss... Download full text

Idea of Flying Earth Climate Observation Sensors on Iridium NEXT Gains Universal Approval, Focus Moves to Funding

Bethesda, Md., January 30 - Iridium(R) Satellite and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of a meeting at the Royal Society in London on January 22, 2008. The meeting, "Exploiting the New Earth Observation Paradigm," organized by Trident Sensors Ltd., was a follow-up to the GEO IV Plenary and Ministerial Summit in Cape Town last November... Download full text

GEO and ITU join forces on Earth observation satellites, emergencies and capacity building

Geneva, 10 December 2007 - The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening cooperation on remote sensing of the Earth, particularly in the field of disaster preparedness and response... Download full text

Brazil and China join forces to distribute satellite imagery to Africa at zero cost

Cape Town, 28 November 2007 – The China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Programme (CBERS) is launching a new Earth observation service that will provide state-of-the-art images of the planet to end-users throughout Africa – free of charge... Download full text

China inaugurates new satellite system to provide environmental data to users throughout the Asia/Pacific

Beijing, 10 October 2007 – The Government of China has formally initiated a new satellite communications system that will enable developing countries without powerful Internet connections to access and use environmental data and analyses, which are critical for decision-making in today’s complex and fast-moving world... Download full text

Cape Town Ministerial Declaration calls for strengthening and integrating Earth Observation and Prediction Systems, 30 November 2007

Cape Town to host Ministerial Summit on Earth observations, 22 November 2007

Adapting to climate change will require a higher order of “environmental intelligence”, 21 November 2007

NOAA AWARDS GEONETCast Americas CONTRACT, 24 September 2007