Earth Information Day

10.00 Opening

Welcome and opening remarks by Paul Watkinson, SBSTA Chair Statement by Andrés Couve, Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation Minister of ChileStatement by Petteri Taalas, Secretary General of the WMO

10.10 Updates on the state of the global climate

Climate change drivers, indicators and impacts

John Kennedy, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Observed changes and impacts and projected risks identified in the IPCC special reports on climate change and land and ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (SRCCL and SROCC) Valerie Masson-Delmotte, IPCC WGI and Hans-Otto Pörtner, IPCC WGII 

Discussion

10.45 Updates on implementing Earthobservation: for region and country support, and needs 

National Systematic Observations of the Climate as part of a Global Effort

Carolin Richter, Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS)

Space-based observation for supporting NDCs, national inventories and the global stocktake

Joerg Schulz and David Crisp, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) Joint Working on Climate

Ocean observation: latest developments in support of the Paris Agreement

Toste Tanhua,Global Earth Observing System (GOOS), IOC-UNESCO

Discussion

11.40 Earth observation for science, policy and practice: retooling global cooperation to respond to future climate risk

Panel discussion chaired by Steven Ramage, GEO

Maisa Rojas Corradi, Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Chile, Tuntiak Katan, Confederation of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin Jean-Noël Thépaut, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Prabir K. Patra, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Mokoena France, Lesotho Cheryl Jeffers, Saint Kitts and Nevis

12.55 Reflections and invitation to the poster session

Paul Watkinson, SBSTA Chair

Further information and presentations available from the event webpage.