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UNEP-Live and Eye on EarthA Partnership in the Making

A Presentation to the UNEP Governing Councilby Mick Wilson, UNEP/DEWA

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UNEP-Live is a web-based platform to promote access to and use of environmental information for keeping the State of Environment under review.

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Eye on Earth addresses the crucialimportance of environmental an societal information and networking to decision-making – convene, converge, collaborate.

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UNEP-Live: What is it?

An open and accessible web platform providing accessto services and products that:

Facilitate stakeholders' access to UNEP assessments and their underlying scientific sources

Support UNEP's and Government Stakeholders’ environmental assessment processes: improve efficiency, increase participation, yield more timely products of greater relevance in policy forums

Enable flexible, customized delivery of assessment products to Member States and UNEP's major stakeholders

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Trajectory

• UNEP Governing Council decisions 25/2 and 26/2 brought us through the prototyping phase to presenting a costed submission to GC-27 next February

• The Future We Want – para 274 further justifies solutions like UNEP-LiveWe . . .

Why UNEP-Live?

note the relevance of global mapping and recognize the efforts in developing global environmental observing systems, including by the Eye on Earth network and through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems

. . . recognize the need to support developing countries in their efforts to collect environmental data.

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Capacity Building

Environmental Assessment

Combine content to create knowledge2 Publish3

Gather content1Partner

networksMemberStates

Publicsources

CommunityInteraction

Audience

What are assessments' information tasks?

Outreach

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Assessment processes constrained by:

• Incomplete data (esp. national level)

• Ability or right to access to data and information

• No long-term trend data

• Capacity of experts to access, analyze and interpret

• Analyzing content to aid interpretation and creation of knowledge

• Customizing products to specific audiences

• (more to come)

What is the current friction?

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Prototype athttp://www.uneplive.org

Where are we?Progress to date

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- Assessment Reports- Maps- Data- Indicators- Emerging Issues- SOE Live- My Country

e.g.AGEDI and Eye on EarthPartnership

UNEP-Live Globaland Regional

Partners

Partnership inUNEP-Live tasks

Increasingreliance for

implementation

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Abu Dhabi Golbal Environmental Data Initiative:

• 2002 post-Johannesburg WSSD type-2 partnership

• On-going project with 30+ deliverables

• One of these was the Eye on Earth Summit 2012

• Another is a national SOE reporting toolkit

UNEP and AGEDI

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State of Environment Reporting – LiveSoftware toolkit implemented in-country for:

• gathering information needed for environmental assessment and reporting

• publishing reports dynamically on-line

• maintaining content archive as basis for future assessments – narrative and data

• enabling continuous update

• same archive provides reference support for other reporting e.g. MEAs, MDGs (and SDGs?)

AGEDI and SOER-Live

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State of Environment Reporting – Live

• Being developed by UNEP as a deliverable for AGEDI

• To be deployed, managed and maintained in-country

• first deployment in Abu Dhabi 2013

• 4-6 other deployments in Gulf Region through 2014

• available for re-use in other regions

AGEDI and SOER-Live

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SOER-Live Capacity Development – Global

Future adaptation for re-use in other countries and regions

UNEP and partners to mobilize funding support

Potential candidates (and partners)

Carpathians(Secretariat, EEA?)

Africa(AfricaEIN)

Pacific(SPREP, GEF)

Latin America(GeoSUR)

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State of Environment Reporting – Live

• Less duplicate effort-> reduced reporting overhead• Re-use of data and narrative -> reduced cost for future reports

• Web publication -> better outreach, products tailored to different audiences

• Open standards -> profile through participation in regional/ global showcases e.g. UNEP-Live My Country

SOER-Live Benefits to Countries

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National SOER-Liveand UNEP-Live

National SOE archive- narrative- data (raw and processed)- maps and images- etc.

SOER-Live platformoperating innational agency

Selective release - national policy

Open standards

Other officialsourcese.g. UN

Other countries'content

Access on demand – 'Link, don't load'

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SOER-Live National Capacity and UNEP-Live My Country

Relationship is yet to be defined

• Consultation starts here today

• Opportunity for new level of relationship UNEP <--> Member States

• Win-win potential

What are your needs?

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Thank you

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