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"The mission of the UN system-wide Earthwatch
is to coordinate, harmonize and
First things first: Who are we? What do we do? The above quote gives you an idea. For a simple explanation, see our brochure on Earthwatch. You can look at a powerpoint presentation on Earthwatch, including its accomplishments and activities, or read our briefing note. We also have a page giving a summary description of UN System-wide Earthwatch with its terms of reference. Another section of the site explains the organization of Earthwatch; this details our Legislative Mandate , UN system-wide contributions to Earthwatch , Tables of thematic coverage of Agenda 21 programme areas , and the History of Earthwatch 1972-1995 . Then there are pages on all the UN system partners in Earthwatch. However, by this time you may have realised that we are not, in fact, the Earthwatch you were seeking. To clarify any confusion, please look at the note Looking for a different Earthwatch? - this may put you on the right path!
Earthwatch
is intended to serve as one of the major pillars of the
More information:
Here are some ways of finding out.
Fires: The Global Fire Monitoring Centre provides access to near-real-time reports on the status of forest and wildfires around the world. Oceans: The JCOMM Products Bulletin provides interactive graphical viewing of several global oceanographic data sets, including sea surface temperature and precipitation anomalies that show El Niño and related phenomena. Coral Reefs: A near-real-time chart of unusually warm sea surface temperatures associated with coral bleaching. ![]() Many
United Nations organizations, programmes, specialized agencies and convention
Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS)
Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS)
Global Terrestrial
Observing System (GTOS)
Global Observing
Systems Information Center (GOSIC)
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(for a complete list of Earthwatch documents see the documents page)
![]() UNEP web site for resources on small island developing States, including an Island Directory .
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This web site for the United Nations System-wide Earthwatch summarizes the information collected by the inter-agency Earthwatch Working Party and the UN System-wide Earthwatch Coordination unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as Task Manager for Earthwatch. It makes more widely available inputs provided to UNEP and the UN Division for Sustainable Development (DSD), as joint Task Managers for Agenda 21 Chapter 40: Information for Decision-making, in their preparation of the Secretary-General's reports on Information for Decision-making to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). This site is intended to inform people about Earthwatch, and to provide a working tool for all the organizations cooperating in Earthwatch, assisting in improving cooperation across the UN system and beyond, and helping to identify opportunities for collaboration and joint programming. Most of the documents on the site are also available in printed form. The intended result is for all cooperating partners in Earthwatch to work towards more coherent and integrated assessments of the planetary environment and a more effective flow of information on that environment to decision-makers. The site contains several core sections: INFORMATION FROM EARTHWATCH OF GENERAL INTEREST
INFORMATION ON THE ORGANIZATION OF EARTHWATCH
The information may vary somewhat in completeness and coverage, depending on the amount of information provided by partner organizations. For further information, consult the organizations directly or through the links provided in this site. The summary listings also do not always show the complementarity of many activities by different organizations in the same programme area. Since Earthwatch is a concept, and a dynamic process of cooperation among the parts of the UN system and outside partners, more than a programme or institutional structure, this site can only give a glimpse of its status at the present time. It will continue to evolve to provide more effective environmental information for decision-making on sustainability.
EARTHWATCH
COORDINATION
Directions to the International Environment House in Geneva (formerly the Geneva Executive Center). Earthwatch is on the second floor of C block (C201-C204).
LOOKING
FOR ANOTHER EARTHWATCH ?
UN System-wide Earthwatch
is most often confused with the Earthwatch
Institute, a non-governmental organisation founded in the same year
as the UN Earthwatch (1972), which subsidizes scientific projects and encourages
public participation in them.
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