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What is UNEP Live?
A UN system-wide platform:
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global levels
from official sources, citizen and volunteered data, big
data, and sensor-webs
based on common tagging, open standards and a UN
system-wide data policy
and a range of analytical, mapping, spatial information,
visualisation, improved translation and search functions and
publishing tools via local and cloud services
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To facilitate:
streamlined e
exchange
change and sharing of up-to-date
p to date data,
data
information, assessments and knowledge amongst UNEA
member countries, research networks, communities of
practice, major groups, indigenous peoples and civil
society
enlarging the knowledge base for global environmental
policy through community and mesh networking and
strengthened assessment methodologies
global efforts to build capacity in knowledge management
Current status
• Updates on portal and migration of Eye on
Earth
• Environmental Data Explorer and indicator
development
• National Reporting Toolkits
• My Country, My Region
• My UNEP Live
• Networking and sustainable communities
• Pilot projects
Outreach
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MyCountry
Combines the most up-to-date
information taken directly from
the national provider with
UNEP’s assessments, reports
and analyses
Users can access:
• Country profiles
• Maps and satellite imagery
• Core sets of indicators of
environmental performance
• Links to national website
• Access to other data
providers
• Simple comparative toolkits
• Search for related
publications
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Country Profile
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From
a dashboard
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d off
indicators, users can select
a set and visualize them
using different
methodologies
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Countries can be added for
comparative analysis
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Data are drawn from the
EDE, national and regional
bodies
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Options to compare
countries and regions with
global data
Byy Januaryy 2014, the following
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showcases will go live:
National Platforms: projects with
Tanzania Live, Kenya Live,
Ethiopia Live, UAE Live to develop
national platforms in which each
country retains the responsibility to
manage and quality assure the data
th publish
they
bli h users can find
fi d th
the mostt
up-to-date information that countries
have published
National showcase: Air
quality/climate and health: Users
will be able to find data and
information about air quality in their
country and have the option of
comparing data of neighboring
cities/countries
iti /
t i with
ith similar
i il priority
i it
challenges. It will include an analysis
from UNEP on the air-quality-climatehealth inter-linkages.
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Regional
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i
l showcase:
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The
Th Arctic
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Demonstrating the Sustaining
Arctic Observing Networks
(SAON) for data delivery and
harmonization, demonstration of
regional trends and information
overlays; exploring availability of
socio economic data and if
applicable related necessary
additional partnerships. It will also
include a UNEP analysis providing
and update of key and emerging
issues in the Arctic.
Sub-national
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ti
l showcase:
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Carbon
sequestration and coastal vulnerability
assessment in Ca Mau region in Vietnam
using global climate change scenarios:
linking the global scale climate change
scenarios with the national scale ecosystem
service models and maps (e.g. carbon
sequestration, coastal vulnerability). Global
data will be collected from international
organizations; the country level data will be
uploaded from the outputs of the
ProEcoserv project.
Global showcase: Global Forest
Watch - users can access near-realtime satellite monitoring
technology, forest management and
company concession maps,
protected areas maps, mobile
technology, crowd-sourced data,
and on-the-ground networks to
promote transparency in forests
around
d th
the world.
ld UNEP analysis
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(in
Kenya for example) will show the
contribution forests have to human
well-being and the economy.
Global showcase:
Biodiversity- linking with the
CBD online tool for reporting
on obligations of the Aichi
targets to showcase global
trends. Data collected by the
online tool will be available via
UNEP Live (expected after
February 2014).
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Sharing data, knowledge and solutions
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Open access wherever possible
Managed as close as possible to its source
Collected once and shared with others for many purposes;
Readily available to public authorities and enable them to easily
fulfil reporting obligations;
• Accesible to enable end-users to make comparisons at the
appropriate geographic scale and to participate meaningfully in
the development and implementation of environmental policy;
• Available to the general public after due consideration of the
appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality
constraints, and at national level in the national language(s).
UNEP Live: post 2015
understanding
g sustainability
y&p
prosperity
p y
transforming responses to change
building collective intelligence
creating a regenerative economy
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Contact
Peter Gilruth
United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)
[email protected]
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