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Contact Details
URL: http://www.un.org/earthwatch/
Founded
1972 Stockholm Sweden
History
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Facilitate, harmonize and integrate observing, assessment and reporting activities across the UN system in order to provide environmental and appropriate socio-economic information for national and international decision-making on sustainable development and for warning of emerging problems requiring international action.
Activities
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Originally included: H-XF8859 - Global Environmental Information Exchange Network (INFOTERRA); U-XF8692 - Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS); F-XF2721 - Global Resource Information Database (GRID). Provides links with many inter-agency and agency activities across the UN system. Cooperates closely with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in reporting to H-XE3104 - United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Links with: F-XF2537 - Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS); F-XF3429 - Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS); F-XM0470 - Group on Earth Observations (GEO); C-XC3023 - OECD Working Group on Environmental Information and Outlooks (WGEIO); UN Division for Sustainable Development; E-XE1124 - United Nations Statistical Commission Inter-secretariat Working Group on Environment Statistics (IWG-ENV), and Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA); A-XA3375 - United Nations (UN) Committee on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA).
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Located at: G-XG7614 - International Environment House (IEH). Links with: H-XA1752 - International Council for Science (ICSU); A-XA2654 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN); E-XE2321 - Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); E-XE1495 - World Resources Institute (WRI); F-XF3608 - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Publications
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- Economics → Economic
- Environment → Environment
- International Relations → United Nations
- Development → Sustainable Development
UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF5535
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
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