EO4SDG held its 2019 Annual Meeting on the margins of the Ninth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM 9) on August 5, 2019 at the UN Headquarters in New York. You can
There is still time to submit nominations for the GEO SDG Awards Program to help recognize innovation in the use of Earth observations to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The deadline is extended to July 15, 2019. Award
GEO launches Awards Programme to recognize innovation for the SDGs and individual excellence in Earth observation.
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy and the CEOS Ad Hoc Team on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) held an SDG Awareness Webinar on December 19, 2018.
On October 29, EO4SDG held a side meeting featuring representatives from GEO member countries and participating organizations, national governments, the United Nations, civil society, international initiatives and research organizations, and academia, as part of the GEO Week 2018 in Kyoto,
Read our latest progress report on updates and activities in support of broadening interest and awareness of Earth observations (EO) support to the SDGs, increasing skills and capabilities in uses of EO for the SDGs, and expanding successful use cases of
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) released the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with contributions from EO4SDG, the UN Statistics Division, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Australia’s Bureau of Statistics, the
The United Nations Task Team on Satellite Imagery and Geospatial Data report is now published on the United Nations Big Data for Official Statistics Global Working Group website. This handbook provides a guide for National Statistical Offices considering using satellite
On October 24, 2017, EO4SDG held its annual side meeting as part of the GEO-XIV Plenary, which took place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
The EO4SDG Initiative, in collaboration with the GEO Secretariat and CEOS, developed a primer on Sustainable Development Goal 2, End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
