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On Thursday morning, Eye on Earth 2015 delegates convened in a plenary on creating the enabling environment, with remarks from: Jim Toomey, Syndicated Cartoonist, ‘Sherman's Lagoon’; Inger Andersen, Director General, IUCN; Enrico Giovannini, Rome University; Carmelle Terborgh, ESRI; and Patricia Zurita, BirdLife International.
Five sessions convened in the morning, covering, in relation to enabling conditions: policies, partnerships and open data; education; Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration; regional cooperation; and ensuring capabilities exist.
Side and launch events during the day focused on, inter alia: the regional GEO-6 assessments in West Asia and the Asia-Pacific; mapping global ecosystems; the Environmental Democracy Index; open data and island resiliency; innovation and tradition; and the European Environment—State and Outlook 2015 report.
In the afternoon, a plenary on cutting-edge Eye on Earth considered the next generation of remote sensing and location-enabling applications. During a segment titled ‘Feet in the Field,’ delegates heard examples of building and maintaining professional human capacity to collect data on the ground and in the water. After a panel discussion on the Summit outcomes, Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, Secretary-General, EAD, delivered closing remarks.
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IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary report from the Eye on Eye on Earth Summit 2015. Our summary report of the Summit is online in HTML and PDF format. Available in ENB Mobile at: http://enb.iisd.mobi/eoesummit-2015/
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