DEAL
The Data for the Environment Alliance
H.E. Karis, President of Estonia
"Climate resilience relies on accessible and quality data. We need to collect data, we need to avoid manipulation through data, and we need to share with each other. DEAL stands for all of this: over 30 countries are collaborating to show leadership on environmental data."
COP
27 remarks
Inger Andersen, UN Under Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director
"We need to accelerate the digital transformation. Because
big
data and new tech can support real time monitoring of the
environment, help consumers adopt more sustainable behavior,
create sustainable value chains."
Yana Gevorgyan, Director of Group On Earth Observations
"If I were to make a plea to ministries around the world is
to
recognize that the quality of information that we are able
to
produce really relies on accessibility to data. So open data
is a vital element in this recipe of designing successful
solutions"
H.E. Thuraya AlHashimi, Executive Director UAE Federal Competitiveness & Statistics Center
"We position the earth observation and big data as a key
pillar in official statistics : planning and tracing
progress.
Harnessing the opportunities offered by artificial
intelligence and remote sensing allows us to extract
meaningful information from the imaginary and combine it
with
administrative data."
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Director Space Climate Observatory
"As data becomes both increasingly available and more
complex,
we urgently need to translate it into ready to use
operational
tools. It is a matter of allowing governments, regional
organizations and local authorities to take action but also
to
inform and empower citizens."
Big Data on the environment is essential to our understanding of
the state of the world environment and the production of
science-based tools for decision-making by governments, investors,
industries and consumers, among others.
With the advent of new earth observation systems and AI tools, now
data from multiple sources has the potential to improve
transparency and accountability, and to help identify solutions
and collaborations to achieve multilateral environmental goals
across disciplines and sectors.
And while AI and frontier technologies offer new solutions, they
also come with complex and never-before encountered issues and
challenges that need to be understood, analysed, well-regulated
and addressed.
Issues related to financing, equity and equality require a deep
dive.
The Data for the Environment Alliance (DEAL)
is
a Member-State led global cooperation initiative initiated by the
Government of Estonia and partners representing 34 countries. It
is facilitated and supported by the UNEP Science-Policy-Business
Forum (SPBF). The DEAL community comprises:
- Earth observation centres / space agencies
- Research centres and labs / Think Tanks / Data analytics centres
- Big Tech and industry partners
- Investment partners
- Member States
- Forecasting specialists from industry and finance with focus on environment and development
- UN entities : UNEP /UNOOSA / UN statistical office / UNEP statistics and SDGs office / GEO / UN Geospatial Network / InforMEA
- EuroStats and DG Research
- Citizen science representatives
