Transcript Presentation - Group on Earth Observations

Breakout session 11.7
Sustainable Urban Development
Outputs
Wenbo Chu
GEO Secretariat
The SBA: Sustainable Urban Development
Description
GEO will advocate the value of Earth observations, engage communities and
deliver data and information in support of Sustainable Urban Development by
assisting in the development of resilient cities and assessment of urban
footprints; in order to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient
and sustainable through identifying economic externalities, managing
environmental, climate and disaster risks, and building capacity to participate,
plan and manage based on objective information regarding urban development.
2016 Work Programme activities
GEO Initiative
GI-17: Global Urban Observation and Information
GI-21: Human Planet Initiative
Community Activity
CA-24: Earth Observation in Cultural Heritage documentation
The breakout session
• 15 participants
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Universities and research institutes (6)
International or regional organizations (5)
Governmental agencies (3)
Private sector (1)
• 7 presentations
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GEO Human Planet Initiative, Martino Pesaresi (JRC)
Global Population Grids, Bob Chen (CIESIN)
WorldPop, Alessandro Sorichetta (University of Southhampton)
Human footprint, Jeanne Foust (Esri)
GCI resources, Paola de Salvo (GEO Sec)
SDG Goal 11, UN Habitat III, resilience.io, Stephen Passmore (Ecosequestration Trust)
User Engagement for Sustainable Urban Development, Mike Tanner (NOAA)
Observation 1:
Clear linkage with Post-2015 Ageda
• UN Third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III, 2016)
• Post-2015 framework on sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
GHS SDG roadmap
In green the Goals where GHS information can support monitoring of implementation
Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent
work for all
Goal 9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (Acknowledging that the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the
global response to climate change.)
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and
build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development
Observation 2:
Importance of Data Integration
• Spatially and temporally consistent and comparable data
• Interoperability of
– data formats
– data from various sources, i.e., earth observation, GIS,
cellphone, household survey and census
Observation 3:
Strong demand to leverage existing efforts
• UN:
– HABITAT III
– UN CSTD: paper on Smart Cities and Infrastructure; meeting next week in Genva
• CIESIN: Gridded Population of the World; Energy Infrastructure;
SEDAC HazPop iOS app…
• ICSU: Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a
Systems Analysis Approach
• resilience.io: Urban design platform
• OGC: Urban Domain Working Group
• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
• Private sector: Esri, Facebook…
Expected output 1
Objectives
Message from UNECA
Given the current rapid urbanization rate in many African countries, our aim is to:
• Assess the spatial extension of some of the major African cities
• Map the key patterns of urbanization
We are therefore welcoming all possibilities of collaboration in terms of :
• Access to relevant satellite imagery and other data
• Sharing of methods and tools for building and geovisualizing geographic
urban infrastructure, extracting key urban features; and detecting patterns
and trends
Expected output 2
Potential new activities
• Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Data
Intercomparison Project (SIP-DIP)
• Demonstration of city-regions for applying EO data and
analysis to support local & national level sustainable
urban development planning, policy and investment
decision making
Expected output 3
List of recommended datasets, information,
knowledge
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Already covered by ‘Existing efforts to be leveraged’
Expected output 3
Engage the community
• Exchange information, share ideas and experience (SBA
webpage needs to be updated)
• Work together to reinforce messaging of the need for and
value of EO data in sustainable urban development
• A community portal
Session Chair’s final messages to GEO
• Baseline data and first release of the indicators in the GEO/GEOSS
GCI portal by Oct 2016 (need help)
• Support to the 4 post-2015 frameworks beyond Habitat & SDG11
– SDG interrelations must be improved (need help)
– Links with Climate, Sendai must be improved (need help)
• GEO repository still esoteric for external people (offer help for
community tagging)
Open challenges
• Multiple-sensor/method/sources integration (need R&D)
• Modeling future evolution and scenarios TWI2050 IAASA (need R&D)
• Global fine-scale reference spatial information
– New baseline data must be collected and maintained
Thank you!