Transcript UNEP-Live and Eye on Earth A Partnership in the Making A Presentation to the UNEP Governing Council by Mick Wilson, UNEP/DEWA • A P R.

UNEP-Live and Eye on Earth
A Partnership in the Making
A Presentation to the UNEP Governing Council
by Mick Wilson, UNEP/DEWA
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UNEP-Live is a web-based platform
to promote access to and use of
environmental information for
keeping the State of Environment
under review.
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Eye on Earth addresses the crucial
importance of environmental an
societal information and networking
to decision-making
– convene, converge, collaborate.
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UNEP-Live: What is it?
An open and accessible web platform providing access
to services and products that:
Facilitate stakeholders' access to UNEP assessments and their
underlying scientific sources
Support UNEP's and Government Stakeholders’ environmental
assessment processes:
improve efficiency,
increase participation,
yield more timely products of greater relevance in policy
forums
Enable flexible, customized delivery of assessment products to
Member States and UNEP's major stakeholders
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Why UNEP-Live?
Trajectory
• UNEP Governing Council decisions 25/2 and 26/2 brought us
through the prototyping phase to presenting a costed
submission to GC-27 next February
• The Future We Want – para 274 further justifies solutions like
UNEP-Live
We . . . note the relevance of global mapping and recognize the efforts in
developing global environmental observing systems, including by
the Eye on Earth network and through the Global Earth
Observation System of Systems
. . . recognize the need to support developing countries in their
efforts to collect environmental data.
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What are assessments'
information tasks?
Audience
Environmental Assessment
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Outreach
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Combine content to
create knowledge
Community
Interaction
Capacity Building
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Gather content
Partner
networks
Member
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Publish
What is the
current friction?
Assessment processes constrained by:
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Incomplete data (esp. national level)
Ability or right to access to data and information
No long-term trend data
Capacity of experts to access, analyze and interpret
Analyzing content to aid interpretation and creation
of knowledge
• Customizing products to specific audiences
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Where are we?
Progress to date
Prototype at
http://www.uneplive.org
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Partnership in
UNEP-Live tasks
UNEP-Live
Global
and Regional
Partners
- Assessment Reports
- Maps
e.g.AGEDI and
- Data
- Indicators
Eye on Earth
- Emerging Issues
Partnership
- SOE Live
Increasing
- My Country
reliance for
implementation
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UNEP and AGEDI
Abu Dhabi Golbal Environmental Data Initiative:
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2002 post-Johannesburg WSSD type-2 partnership
On-going project with 30+ deliverables
One of these was the Eye on Earth Summit 2012
Another is a national SOE reporting toolkit
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AGEDI and SOER-Live
State of Environment Reporting – Live
Software toolkit implemented in-country for:
• gathering information needed for environmental
assessment and reporting
• publishing reports dynamically on-line
• maintaining content archive as basis for future
assessments – narrative and data
• enabling continuous update
• same archive provides reference support for other
reporting e.g. MEAs, MDGs (and SDGs?)
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AGEDI and SOER-Live
State of Environment Reporting – Live
• Being developed by UNEP as a deliverable for
AGEDI
• To be deployed, managed and maintained incountry
• first deployment in Abu Dhabi 2013
• 4-6 other deployments in Gulf Region through 2014
• available for re-use in other regions
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SOER-Live Capacity
Development – Global
Future adaptation for re-use in other countries and regions
Potential candidates
(and partners)
Carpathians
(Secretariat, EEA?)
Pacific
(SPREP, GEF)
Latin America
(GeoSUR)
Africa
(AfricaEIN)
UNEP and partners to mobilize funding support
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SOER-Live
Benefits to Countries
State of Environment Reporting – Live
• Less duplicate effort-> reduced reporting
overhead
• Re-use of data and narrative -> reduced cost for
future reports
• Web publication -> better outreach, products
tailored to different audiences
• Open standards -> profile through participation in
regional/ global showcases e.g. UNEP-Live My Country
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National SOER-Live
and UNEP-Live
Other official
sources
e.g. UN
Other countries'
content
Open standards
Access on demand – 'Link, don't load'
Selective release - national policy
SOER-Live
platform
operating in
national
agency
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National SOE archive
- narrative
- data (raw and processed)
- maps and images
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SOER-Live National Capacity
and UNEP-Live My Country
Relationship is yet to be defined
• Consultation starts here today
• Opportunity for new level of relationship
UNEP <--> Member States
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Win-win potential
What are your needs?
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Thank you
www.uneplive.org
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