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Appendix
CEOS and the Sustainable Development Goals
To highlight the potential role for
Earth observations in supporting the global
Indicator framework for the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), CEOS has established an Ad Hoc Team on
Sustainable Development Goals (AHT-SDG). This group
has aligned its engagement with the SDG agenda
through the intergovernmental Group on Earth
Observations (GEO), and sometimes deal directly with
the custodian UN agencies as well as with individual
countries through their National Statistical Offices
(NSOs) and relevant ministries.
The Team
has taken stock of the UN processes in place for the
SDG implementation and of the existing participants
and stakeholders, and now focuses its activities
around the unique role that CEOS should play as a
coordination body of satellite EO efforts in support
of the realisation of the SDGs. This includes a
focus not only on the SDG Indicators that have been
defined to monitor progress towards the SDG Targets,
but also ways to explore how EO can complement
traditional statistics and help define other
indicators with innovative methodologies using EO
satellite data.
The objectives of the
group have been defined in a Terms of Reference
document (available online at
http://ceos.org/ourwork/ad-hoc-teams/sustainable-development-goals/documents):
− Actively support the GEO
Initiative on SDGs (EO4SDG).
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Coordinate the efforts of CEOS agencies and
communicate CEOS support to other SDG stakeholders.
− Provide a forum for sharing and
communicating EO best practices in support of the
SDGs, providing easy access to methodological
developments, tools and platforms, and
discoverability of global/regional data sets.
− Analyse new opportunities for
satellite-based EO to support SDGs Targets and
Indicators (new methods, data, indicators).
− Engage with other relevant
authoritative stakeholders outside the UN system,
who provide support to the SDGs.
− Use
CEOS assets and bodies to build user capacity at all
levels of the SDG implementation.
Further reading and contacts can be
found on the CEOS website:
http://ceos.org/sdg
EO Handbook Online
The full text of this report is
available on the Earth Observation Handbook’s
website at
www.eohandbook.com/sdg.
A supporting database of satellite
missions, instruments and measurements is available
at
database.eohandbook.com
and contains powerful search and presentation tools,
with the ability to export customised tables and
timelines in support of analyses of current and
planned provision of observations in support of
different applications and measurements.
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