Week at a Glance

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GEO-XII Draft List of Partcipants

Side Events

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GEO Secretariat contact for side events

Giovanni Rum, grum@geosec.org

GEO-XII Plenary Documents, Statements & Presentations

Documents

• GEO-XII draft report
• Agenda (Plenary Document 1)
• Recognition and Statements from New Members (Plenary Document 2)
• Review of Applications for Observer Status (Plenary Document 3)
• Approval of the Draft GEO-XI Report (Plenary Document 4)
• Summary Assessment of Progress – Targets and Tasks (Plenary Document 5)
• Report of the Sixth and Summative Evaluation of GEOSS Implementation (Plenary Document 6)
• Monitoring and Evaluation (Plenary Document 7)
• Implementation Boards Considerations (Plenary Document 8)
• The Value of Open Data Sharing (Plenary Document 9)
• Data Management Principles Implementation Guidelines (Plenary Document 10)
• Presentation by theImplementation Plan Working Group (IPWG) of the GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025: Implementing GEOSS (Ministerial Document 4) and Reference Document (Plenary Document 11)
• Transition Plan (Plenary Document 12)
• Appointment of the Programme Board (Plenary Document 13)
• Revised Criteria for Observers, Participating Organizations and Moratorium (Plenary Document 14)
• 2016 Work Programme (Plenary Document 15)
• Proposed 2016 Budget (Plenary Document 16)
• Updates to Rules of Procedure (Plenary Document 17)
• 2015 Report of the Executive Committee (Plenary Document 18)
• 2014 Financial Statements and Report of the External Auditor (Plenary Document 19)
• Interim Report on Income and Expenditure (Plenary Document 20)
• Mexico City Declaration (Ministerial Document 3)
• Mexico City Ministerial Programme (Ministerial Document 1)
• Mexico City Ministerial Summit Agenda (Ministerial Document 2)
• GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025 as approved at GEO-XII (Ministerial Document 4)

Press release - Mexico City, 13 November, 2015: GEO Commits to unleash the power of open data to address global challenges

Statements by Member Countries and Participating Organizations:

A combination of all GEO-XII statements can be downloaded here for quick searches on a specific topic

Presentations

Presentations can be downloaded from here

Mexico City Ministerial Summit Documents

Documents

• Mexico City Declaration (Ministerial Document 3)
• Mexico City Ministerial Programme (Ministerial Document 1)
• Mexico City Ministerial Summit Agenda (Ministerial Document 2)
• GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025 as approved at GEO-XII (Ministerial Document 4)

Opening Remarks by Carlos Moedas - Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission

Opening Remarks and Closing Remarks of GEO Co-Chair Cao Jianlin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China

Press release - Mexico City, 13 November, 2015: GEO Commits to unleash the power of open data to address global challenges

Statements by Member Countries and Participating Organizations:

Short Video Competition Winners

The winner is:

Ocean observations for the benefit of society (by POGO)

2nd place:

GMOS: Global Mercury Observation System (by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR)

3rd place:

FLOODIS: better flood information in your hands (by Istituto Superiore Mario Boella - ISMB)

Media Coverage

GEO-XII Plenary and 2015 Ministerial Summit

• IISD Reporting Services
• Live coverage of GEO-XII, Earthzine
  • “Environmental intelligence starts with our ability to take the pulse of the planet” NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan
  • “Science is fundamental to every decision we make” Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
  • GEO-XII Launches as WMO Issues Warning on the Dangers of Climate Change
  • Forecasting a Future of User-Accessible Data
  • Where Biodiversity and Well-Being Intersect: A Perspective on GEO BON with Tuyeni Mwampamba
  • GEO at a Moment of Transition: An Interview with Director Barbara Ryan
  • MBON: From Coasts to Oceans and Microbes to Whales
  • Statement by new member Ecuador to the Group on Earth Observations
  • Statement by new member Zimbabwe, to the Group on Earth Observations
  • GEO Government Membership Hits the 100 Mark
  • Pictures at an (GEO) Exhibition
  • Blue Planet and Catching the Wave of Collaboration
  • Statement by prof Rene Garello, President of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
• Phoenix Sun

GEO Members

• European Commission: Commission to open Global Earth observation data.
• US: This Week at Interior, Nov 20, 2015, Secretary Sally Jewell.

GEO Participating Organizations

• EUMETSAT: EUMETSAT renews commitment to GEO.
• Future Earth: Future Earth partners with GEO to address global challenges.
• RDA: Research Data Alliance joins Group on Earth Observations as participating organization.
• Secure World Foundation: SWF Contributes to GEO-XII Plenary & Mexico City Ministerial Summit, Highlights Spectrum Management Issues.
• WMO: Meteoworld - The Power of Shared Earth Observations.

Trade Press

• Free Data from USGS Proves Its Worth for Observing Earth.
• South Africa: Minister Naledi Pandor – Group On Earth Observations Fourth Ministerial Summit.
• ESSC statement on climate change, European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC).
• Butterfly monitoring: an important biodiversity loss indicator made easier to measure.
• DOI Secretary makes remarks at international climate talks (Native Times).
• Researchers Model Near Future of Coastal Redwoods’ Habitat (University of California, Merced).
• Challenges in Environmental Technologies Development and Climate Change (Georgia Today).
• US, Mexico sign deal on sharing satellite data directly (NASA).
• GEO Commits to unleash to power of open data to address global challenges (GIS Café).
• Making a case for open data, P7 OpEd, Geospatial World, December 2015 by Prof Arup Dasgupta.

The press coverage in Spanish language, Mexico 8 to 16 November, 2015 totaled almost 10 million impressions.