World Environment Situation RoomInternal | Not for further distributionMinutes prepared by: Erick LitswaMinutes cleared by: Pascal Peduzzi

Minutes of the Acting As One MeetingTue-28-Jan-2020

1 Adoption of the agenda

Main Points

Actions / Tasks / Decisions

Adopted with one addition. A regional presence of the WESR

2 Current status of WESR (Demonstration of new content, functionalities, recent integration)

Main Points

Some themes have been integrated - air quality

Some themes have been integrated but require deeper integration - InforMEA, Climate Change.

Analysis added (For example on fires: what is burning and trend analysis of the fires)

Mountain data added

Data available for SDGs 15 and SDG 6.6.1

Actions / Tasks / Decisions

3 Implementation of Quick wins (selection of 10 quick wins for integration in 2020)

Main Points

Technical works, discussions with focal points and data collection on thematic issues is ongoing.

Priority Use Cases are:

o Air quality

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o Sustainable Consumption and Production

o Forest fires automation

o Atlas or hotspots of Global change - GRID Sioux Falls - Environmental change hotspots. Original data was presented as One Planet Many People, 300 sites, before and after based on satellite imagery.

o Monitoring of the illegal killing of Elephants

o Other use cases that will be considered are

o Ozone

o Oceans . Discussions have commenced. Mangrove and Coral Reefs

o Environmental Stress Index from David Jensen not likely before Oct 2020.

Actions / Tasks / Decisions

All invited to share content

4 Outreach events for WESR in 2020

Main Points

The first event for Jan was successfully completed. Davos. The 800 MB presentation given is available through - https://owncloud.unepgrid.ch/index.php/s/n6iqjDfmVxcoyc0

UNDP and UNECE expressed interest in WESR

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Actions / Tasks / Decisions

List to be recirculated

Comments from Divisions, Regions, MEAs

Main Points Question from Dr. Sophia Mylona (Ozone

Secretariat): Are data sources known? Answer from WESR Secretariat: Demonstration

given to show where the data source are found. Data can also be downloaded.

Question from Francesco Gaetani (LAC Regional Office): What is the WESR structure and classification?

Answer from WESR Secretariat: The current focus of WESR is to provide several ways to access the available global data.

Comment from Corli Pretorius (UNEP-WCMC): Need to strengthen coordination

Response from WESR Secretariat: Work plans to be shared

Comment from Jason Jabbour (North America Regional Office): Timelines should be attached to the workplans

Response from WESR Secretariat: They will be added and shared.

Question from David Jensen (Crisis Management Branch, Policy and Programme Division, UNEP): What are the roles of Pascal and Madga?

WESR Secretariat: Pascal and Magda coordinate the implementation of the WESR. Magda is coordinating the technical implementation and the demonstration projects.

Comment from Elisabeth Bernhardt (Ecosystem Divisions): Fires should not automatically be linked to climate change.

Response from WESR Secretariat: Fires are accessible under the disaster risk theme and not

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under the climate change theme on WESR.

Comment from Saiful Ridwan (Enterprise Solutions, Corporate Services Division): Navigation - how to integrate or show linkages, current content looks like a ‘bazaar’. Suggestion to have data providers produce an API and WESR should provide specs of how to consume and run the APIs for analysis

Response from WESR Secretariat: Infrastructure discussions ongoing. Regarding web design, the Communication Division will provide strategic guidance.

Comment from Dr. Sophia Mylona (Ozone Secretariat): Consider other possible use cases are Biodiversity Lab and the Nature Map. A proposal on the planet plus concept will be available. How business can leverage biodiversity data. Comments sought on the public source principles document which will be recirculated for comments.

Actions / Tasks / Decisions

Discussions for regional and other types of access will be started

A landing page for each topic will be available in May 2020.

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Comments from Francesco Gaetani (LAC Regional Office): 1. How to develop a regional section of WESR and 2. Provide regional data providers with capacity to upload or contribute to WESR.

Question from David Jensen (Crisis Management Branch, Policy and Programme Division, UNEP): Where do we stand with the Science Business Policy Forum vision in terms of the Digital Ecosystem of the Planet?

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WESR Secretariat: Estonia requested to convene a SBPF. The SBPF has raised expectations.

Actions / Tasks / Decisions

Shereen Zorba (Science Division, UNEP) to be invited to the next meeting.

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