International Climate Symposium 2014
International Climate Symposium 2014 gathers world's leading experts on climate change challenges and observations from space
This week, nearly 500 climate experts, policy makers and representatives from space agencies and industry will join in the debate to identify how observations from current and future satellites will address the grand research challenges identified by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
05 November 2024
13 October 2014
EUMETSAT Director-General Alain Ratier said, “After the publication of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC and one year before the next Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, our purpose is to bring together scientists and space agencies to connect satellite observations to the climate challenges we are facing. This means not only to understand climate change but also to establish on the best possible scientific foundation the climate information services expected by decision makers.”
The symposium will provide new inputs to the design of the global architecture for climate monitoring from space being established by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites , in response to the needs of the World Meteorological Organization , the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS).
A number of high level speakers will open the symposium, including Ms Brigitte Zypries, German State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Energy, Mr Klaus-Peter Willsch, Chairman of the Aviation and Space Group in the German Parliament, Mr Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the WMO, and Ms Barbara Ryan, Director of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Further key addresses will be given by David Carlson, Director of the WCRP, and Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office (UK).
The Climate Symposium 2014 is organised by the WCRP and EUMETSAT, with the support of the European Union, the European Space Agency, and the City of Darmstadt. Other sponsors are GFCS, GEO, JAXA, DLR, NOAA, CNES and NASA.
To follow the symposium, join us on Twitter #climaspace or watch it being streamed live. For more details of the symposium programme, visit the Climate Symposium web site.
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