GEO Climate Workshop: outcomes

Earth observations for the Paris agreement

13 June 2018 / Geneva, Switzerland (Salle Obasi, WMO)

GEO Climate Workshop presentations

Session 1 – Opening and stage setting: National and regional perspectives

• Opening remarks (Barbara Ryan - GEO Secretariat)
• Report on GCOS Adaptation Workshop Fiji (Simon Eggleston - GCOS)
• National Perspective - Ghana (Foster Mensah - CERSGIS, Ghana)
• UK national perspectives (John Remedios - NCEO/University of Leicester)
• Earth Observation for Monitoring Carbon and GHGs to Help Mitigation and Adaptation Policies (Nobuko Saigusa, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
• Adaptation to climate change in Switzerland (Roland Hohmann, Federal Office of the Environment, Switzerland)
• A SIDS perspective (Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Climate Analytics)

Session 2 – Mapping GEO activities to Paris Agreement

• GCOS report on climate observations for the Paris Agreement (Han Dolman - Free University Amsterdam)
• Results of GEO Work Programme (Andre Obregon - GEO Secretariat)
• Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI) (Virginia Burkett - USGS)
• GEO Carbon and GHG Initiative (GEO-C) (Han Dolman - Free University Amsterdam)
• GEO Blue Planet: Oceans and Society (Sophie Seeyave - POGO)
• GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) (Ian Jarvis - GEO Secretariat)
• GEO Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS) (Angelica Gutierrez - NOAA)
• GEO Human Planet Initiative (Daniele Ehrlich - JRC)
• Copernicus Climate Change Service (Jean-Noel Thepaut - ECMWF)
• GEO Vision for Energy (Thierry Ranchin, MINES ParisTech)

Session 3 – Gap analysis and opportunities

• Panel Introduction
• Rolling Review of Requirements

Session 4 – Open Discussion / Path forward

• Panel Discussion: key points

Agenda & Concept Note

Download the GEO Climate Workshop agenda here

Download full concept note and background information here.

Workshop recording

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