The first GEO Knowledge Hub (GKH) webinar, planned for the 24th February 2021, will introduce the GKH in its current stage of development. In July 2020, the GEO Executive Committee approved the 1-year GKH Implementation Plan, which aims to develop a full working prototype of the GKH. Since approval, the GEO Secretariat team supporting the […]
December 15-16, 2020 will be held online the eleventh meeting of UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group. The meeting will be co-chaired by Rodges Ankrah (Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.), and Teeraporn Wiriwutikorn (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand). It will represents an opportunity to review recent activities of the Partnership and its Partnership Areas; exchange on future priorities; discuss progress and next steps for the work on mercury from non-ferrous mining and smelting […]
On the 3rd and 4th of December there will be the annual online ERA-PLANET project meeting. ERA-PLANET is the European network for sharing Big Data generated by in situ or satellite platforms in order to reinforce the European Research Space in the Earth observation sector. The first day will be opened by a welcome from Jean Dusart (European Commission) and Nicola Pirrone (CNR), then continue with a brief excursion about […]
The kick-off workshop of the GOS4M GEO Flagship will be held online on October 7 and 8. The virtual kick-off workshop will convene major scientific experts on mercury monitoring and will be opened by Monika Stankiewicz, Executive Secretary of the Minamata Convention on Mercury and Gilberto Camara, Director of the GEO Secretariat. The workshop will officially […]
Press Release Launch of the new H2020 project e-shape for strengthening the benefits for Europe of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) – establishing ‘EuroGEOSS’ e-shape (EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe), a new project coordinated by ARMINES and funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme was successfully launched in Cannes, France […]
On October 23-27 2017, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)community will come together at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. for GEO Week 2017. GEO Week 2017, consisting of GEO-XIV Plenary, side events and exhibition, will highlight and promote the role, applications and opportunities to use Earth observations (EO) in delivering ‘Insight for a changing world’. An […]
‘Mercury is widespread and persistent. It is used in industrial processes, emitted from waste incineration and burning of fossil fuels, and is found in electrical appliances, medical instruments, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, dental amalgam and a variety of other products. From emissions to air, and releases to land and water, mercury contaminates various environmental media and can be transformed into methyl […]
Women of childbearing age from around the world have been found to have high levels of mercury, a potent neurotoxin which can seriously harm unborn children. The new study from IPEN, the largest to date, covered 25 of the countries with the highest risk and found excessive levels of the toxic metal in women from Alaska to […]
ERA-PLANET, “the European Network for Observing our Changing Planet” is a network of 36 partner organizations from 14 European countries and one associated country, coordinated by the CNR-IIA, aiming at strengthening the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation in coherence with the European participation to Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Copernicus programme. The Network promotes the use of tools and technologies to […]
