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Earth Observation (EO) provides timely and accurate information about the Earth’s atmosphere, landmasses, and oceans to inform and facilitate climate resilience development globally. EO4SD is an ESA initiative with aims to merge EO-based information with development operations to identify a location’s adaptive capacity, its climate risks, and resilience building opportunities. This story is only beginning.

ADAM is a highly-flexible platform that facilitates the access to a large volume of Earth Observation-based, environmental data. The EO4SD Climate Resilience cluster project has deployed ADAM to provide International Financing Institutions' programmes with enhanced climate risk management capabilities. To increase the impact of ADAM, the EO4SD consortium has offered training and capacity building programmes to provide stakeholders with the ability to utilise ADAM for their own purposes.

Liberia’s history of instability and conflict have resulted in dramatic levels of urbanisation and accounted for a majority of the Monrovian population to reside in coastal slums prone to flooding and soil erosion. The EO4SD climate resilience cluster is working with the World Bank to provide earth observation data that can be used to model the impacts of disaster and climate change on the developed land and offer alternative scenarios of how Monrovia could develop.

Earth Observation (EO) data has emerged as a method of providing good quality data to inform climate-resilient decisions. The EO4SD climate resilience cluster is collaborating with International Finance Institutions to demonstrate the power of EO data when applied to real-world projects around the world.

The EO4SD Climate Resilience Cluster is holding a webinar to demonstrate the potential for Earth Observation to contribute to climate resilient development objectives. The webinar, How can EO data support climate resilient development? will take place twice on the 11th June 2019 at: 10-11am CEST / 3-4pm PHT and at 3-4pm CEST / 9-10am EST.

The EO4SD Climate Resilience cluster co-organised together with IGAD ICPAC a stakeholder and capacity building workshop in Nairobi (Kenya) on 13 March 2019. The workshop aims to demonstrate the value of Earth observation data to climate-resilient development through a series of presentations, discussions, and hands-on training.

ESA and the Asian Development Bank have signed an agreement to collaborate over the next five years to use information from space to support sustainable development.