Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Brazil is the world leader in climate policy. It has the most ambitious goals for reducing emissions and has already achieved a 67% reduction in its deforestation rate since 2005. This event will present the most current developments on REDD+ and low emissions development in Brazil, from the national to the local levels, and from
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), their progressive initiative that brings together volunteer software developers and experts in disaster risk management for a weekend-long “hackathon” to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
At the Pleanry Assembly of the Heads of Government in Trieste Croatia took over the presidency for 2011 and 2012. Hans Niessl received the Alps-Adriatic-Award. In the course of the Plenary Assembly of the Heads of Government of the Alps-Adriatic Working Community in Trieste on November 22nd 2010, Renzo Tondo, president of the Autonomous Region Friuli
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
The Side Event “Policy lessons from REDD projects and new methodologies” will discuss different approaches and initiatives for REDD + currently submitted to the VCS and how independent certification under a credible standard like the VCS could support policy discussions at the local and sub-national level. Linked to this, we will discuss how design options can
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
The book “Regional forest governance – potentials for forestry and political drivers in integrated rural development policy” is available free of charge. Read More
Friday, November 26th, 2010
ESA PR 2010-26 Ministers in charge of space activities representing the Member States of the European Space Agency and the European Union met in Brussels today for the Seventh Space Council. Today’s Council was jointly chaired by Sabine Laruelle, the Belgian Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Self-employed, Agriculture and Science Policy, on behalf of
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
The organizations sponsoring OWS-8 seek open standards that address their interoperability requirements. OWS-8 will be organized around the following threads: 1) Observation Fusion — Detection, tracking, and bookmarking of moving objects in video using Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) and other OGC standards; as well as coverage access and processing. 2) Geosynchronization (Gsync) — Distributing bulk
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
WEATHERVANE – When discussing climate change, Mexico is usually not mentioned as one of the top power players in the ongoing negotiations to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions. It is not a member of BASIC. It is not in the G77, and it is not aligned with any particular Annex I country. Still, this year’s host of
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Understanding technology and business is key 17th November 2010 – Influential business leaders across the UK are calling for more graduates with advanced technology and business skills to help them use high-tech systems more effectively across their organisations. According to a survey by ESRI UK, four in five (82 per cent) businesses think the ideal
