Community Event - Earth Intelligence for Security and Climate Resilience: From risk to action

Description

Understanding the link between security, climate change, and societal resilience is increasingly critical for protecting citizens and communities. Climate change impacts, including extreme weather events, environmental degradation, rapid urbanization, and disruptions to food and water security, can threaten societies, critical infrastructures, and economic stability. In parallel, societal resilience depends on timely access to accurate information, decision-support tools, and cross-domain collaboration.

Advances in Earth Observation (EO) data, combined with the rise of AI and data technologies enabling seamless integration with complementary data sources, have led to the emergence of Earth Intelligence, an innovative approach to monitoring, mitigating, and adapting to climate and security challenges. Within the GEO framework, initiatives such as the SPACE-SECURITY Convener provide a cross-domain framework to address these interconnected risks, while targeted initiatives such as the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO) demonstrate how these capabilities can be translated into concrete operational solutions.

The session, moderated by SatCen and CNES, is structured to first provide a strategic framing of the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of security, climate, and resilience, and then to illustrate how these are addressed in practice.

The session aims to:

Demonstrate how Earth Intelligence supports decision-making across security, climate, food, water, and disaster risk reduction domains.
Present operational perspectives and user needs across policy, humanitarian, and security contexts.
Illustrate, through a focused case, how SCO translates these needs into concrete solutions addressing real-world challenges.
Foster dialogue between EO data providers, solution providers, operational users, and policymakers, exploring pathways to operational uptake and cross-domain cooperation.

The event will bring together a diverse range of perspectives, from policy and strategic frameworks to operational use and real-world implementation. It will emphasize pathways to operational uptake and long-term investment in Earth Intelligence capabilities, while showcasing concrete examples across the EO data value chain.

Agenda

Opening and Strategic Context Setting (Sergio Albani)

Keynote Speeches

Space-Security (Ines Mendes)
Space for Climate Observatory (Frédéric Bretar)

Panel Discussion - How can Earth Intelligence support operational decision-making and improve coordination across domains and initiatives to better protect populations?