From the inaugural Eye on Earth Summit 2011, with a shared knowledge and understanding of the Eye on Earth Community, a suite of outcomes were committed to, including 8 Special Initiatives; 3 foundational and 5 thematic represent significant programmes of work.
The 3 foundational series initiatives address issues that cross-cut the 5 thematic Special Initiatives (SIs) and are seen as essential to supporting effective environmental and societal data and information sharing.
Eye on Access for All, Eye on Environmental Education and Global Network of Networks address the cross cutting issues and aid to facilitate knowledge transfer through supporting and strengthening existing efforts of the five thematic SIs; Eye on Biodiversity, Eye on Community Sustainability & Resiliency, Eye on Disaster Management, Eye on Oceans & Blue Carbon and Eye on Water Security.
Through networks, conferences and community groups, Eye on Earth provides a strong basis and opportunity to work together and pool resources to provide decision making support for sustainable development. Ultimately, Special Initiatives should embody the following fundamental characteristics:
Through the Special Initiatives engagement process, the Eye on Earth initiative convenes a diverse range of stakeholders to strengthen the knowledge infrastructure and access to information for environment and sustainable development in accordance with the principles enshrined in the Eye on Earth Summit Declaration.
The Initiative convenes routinely through online networks to a broad set of stakeholders across environmental, social and economic sectors to converge and collaborate around a set of key foundational and thematic issues to collectively address sustainable development goals. This includes a focus on data and information infrastructure including the methodology, tools, policies and institutional mechanisms to apply these resources effectively. Participating in the Initiative allows stakeholders to contribute to the common agenda and related outcomes and be part of a global stakeholder community and collaborative environment that collectively targets key needs and gaps that has the potential to provide transformative impact.
The Eye on Earth Special Initiatives process provides opportunities for:
The following coordination meeting were supported by AGEDI to maximise the number of stakeholders to successful develop and progress the initiatives beyond the virtual world.
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The Eye on Earth Community is made up a of full range of environmental, economic and societal interests – Government, UN system, non-governmental, private sector, academia, and multilateral and
Eye on Access for All is one of the 3 foundational Special Initiatives. This Special Initiative perfectly complements all other EoE Special Initiatives by addressing an overarching and key aspect of information
Eye on Water Security proposes to demonstrate practical means for addressing these and other challenges. Eye on Water Security Special Initiative stakeholders strive to meet the challenges by strengthening
There is significant interest in the Eye on Earth community to explore further alignment of various existing and planned local, national, regional and global networks. Information and communication
The Eye on Environmental Education aims to consolidate and build on existing environmental education initiatives so as to collectively and effectively contribute towards sustainable development through all
It is recognised that there is a substantial amount of information and data which could help address current biodiversity and ecosystem challenges, however there is much collected which is not
This initiative focuses on developing a framework for the collection and sharing of urban environmental and societal data, information and tools for medium-sized and large cities on various geographical
This initiative combines technology and expertise contributions of private sector companies, alignment with and strengthening of existing governmental, intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder programs…
This Special initiative will explore methodologies for collecting appropriate data sets (from remote sensing of the areal extent of ecosystems, to measurements of organic carbon stocks in coastal