Side Event: The European Environmental Research Infrastructure Community as sustainable in-situ contribution to EuroGEOSS
Date: 23rd October, from 11:00 to 12:30
Location: GEO Week 2017, Continental C, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
The European environmental Research Infrastructure (ENVRI) community wishes to send a strong signal to the Earth Observation community that it is committed to contributing to the challenges as were laid down in the most recent GEO workplan. There are already established considerable contributions from ENVRI to many GEO Flagships, Initiatives and Community Activities, and it's important to acknowledge and build on that.
The Side Event invites GEO to address the need for well developed, independent and objective scientific information to achieve its goals, and how Research Infrastructures play their role, also beyond the European borders, on a global scale. An illustration of this will be presented through inviting a GEO Flagship or Initiative discussing the connection between these SDG's and the specific focus area of this Flagship.
Finally, a major European Research Infrastructure will present how the ENVRI community currently operates jointly towards an holistic view of earth observation, keeping track of the planet in different environmental domains through a multidisciplinary approach.