Through the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), the Government of Abu Dhabi is organising a global summit devoted to the issue of greater access to environmental and societal information.
The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) will host the Eye on Earth Summit on December 12-15, 2011 in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). At Eye on Earth, global leaders, innovators and decision-makers will focus on an issue critical to the conservation of our planet: ensuring effective access to the world’s expanding pool of environmental and societal data by all of those who need it. Eye on Earth will attract leaders from the worlds of government, business, science, civil society and academia to encourage and strengthen existing efforts, and to inspire harmonious new solutions to this global challenge. To register your interest, or if you would like to receive regular updates about Eye on Earth, please click here. Please help to spread the word about the Eye on Earth Summit by sharing this initiative with your colleagues and friends. For more information, please visit www.eyeonearthsummit.org About Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) was established in 1996 to preserve Abu Dhabi’s natural heritage, protect our future, and raise awareness about environmental issues. EAD is Abu Dhabi’s environmental regulator and advises the government on environmental policy. It works to create sustainable communities, and protect and conserve wildlife and natural resources. EAD also works to ensure integrated and sustainable water resources management, to ensure clean air and minimise climate change and its impacts. For more information, visit www.ead.ae About Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) Conceived by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and launched by the Abu Dhabi Government in 2002, under the guidance and patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, AGEDI provides user-friendly access to high-quality environmental information, through a variety of information products. While EAD champions AGEDI locally, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) champions it regionally and globally. AGEDI’s objectives include; to enhance environmental data collection and assessment, to increase data capacities for local, national, regional, and global environmental decision making, to ensure sustainable development planning is based on quality, timely, useable, and updated data and information, to provide accessibility of data and information to all stakeholders, to enhance national and international mechanisms of information processing and exchange and to enhance national capacities in information handling and communications. For more information, visit www.agedi.ae About United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) UNEP is the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues at the global and regional level. UNEP’s mission is ‘to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations’. UNEP is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. For more information, visit www.unep.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
