Eye on Earth Summit 2015 - Convene, Converge, Collaborate
The Eye on the Earth was originally in response to to the UAE being ranked 141 out of 142 countries in the Environmental Sustainability Index in February 2002. AGEDI launched in Sept 2002 by H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan (President of UAE) at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg. It was established as a Type II partnership a joint venture between Environment Agency (EAD) & United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The goal of Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) is to address the gap in environmental data and information. It held its first international Summit in 2011 the one that just finished aimed to identify solutions for greater access to and sharing of data, in order to provide policymakers with timely, actionable information for critical decisions to implement the post-2015 development agenda. The Summit was convened this time by a collaboration of the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency's Abu Dhabi Globa...