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From: Mick Wilson <mickwilson20 at yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Subject: [Geowanking] Announcement - Eye on Earth Summit 12-15 Dec 2011 -
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To: geowanking <geowanking at geowanking.org>

Through the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), the
Government of Abu Dhabi is organising a global summit devoted to the issue
of greater access to environmental and societal information.

The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) will host the Eye on Earth Summit
on December 12-15, 2011 in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP).

At Eye on Earth, global leaders, innovators and decision-makers will focus
on an issue critical to the conservation of our planet: ensuring effective
access to the world’s expanding pool of environmental and societal data by
all of those who need it.

Eye on Earth will attract leaders from the worlds of government, business,
science, civil society and academia to encourage and strengthen existing
efforts, and to inspire harmonious new solutions to this global challenge.

To register your interest, or if you would like to receive regular updates
about Eye on Earth, please click here.

Please help to spread the word about the Eye on Earth Summit by sharing this
initiative with your colleagues and friends.

For more information, please visit www.eyeonearthsummit.org

About Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD)

The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) was established in 1996 to preserve
Abu Dhabi’s natural heritage, protect our future, and raise awareness about
environmental issues. EAD is Abu Dhabi’s environmental regulator and advises
the government on environmental policy. It works to create sustainable
communities, and protect and conserve wildlife and natural resources. EAD
also works to ensure integrated and sustainable water resources management,
to ensure clean air and minimise climate change and its impacts. For more
information, visit www.ead.ae

About Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI)

Conceived by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and launched by the Abu
Dhabi Government in 2002, under the guidance and patronage of His Highness
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, AGEDI provides user-friendly access to
high-quality environmental information, through a variety of information
products. While EAD champions AGEDI locally, the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) champions it regionally and globally. AGEDI’s objectives
include; to enhance environmental data collection and assessment, to
increase data capacities for local, national, regional, and global
environmental decision making, to ensure sustainable development planning is
based on quality, timely, useable, and updated data and information, to
provide accessibility of data and information to all stakeholders, to
enhance national and international mechanisms of information processing and
exchange and to enhance national capacities in information handling and
communications.
 For more information, visit www.agedi.ae

About United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

UNEP is the designated authority of the United Nations system in
environmental issues at the global and regional level. UNEP’s mission is ‘to
provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment
by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their
quality of life without compromising that of future generations’. UNEP is
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. For more information, visit www.unep.org

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