On October 6-8,2015, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)hosted Eye on Earth summit2015. More than650participantsrepresenting international organizations andgovernments,as well asscientists, politiciansand the publicfrom variouscountries discussedthe use of moderninformation technologies forprotecting the environment andachieving the relevant objectivesof sustainable developmentdefinedat the end ofSeptember 2015 by world leadersat the UN summit http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/.
Wide discussions were focused on public access to environmental information, participation in decision-making as defined by Principle 10 of the Declaration of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_455#o30), which overlaps with provisions of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show / 994_015) (http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/994_015).
The summitreaffirmeda common vision ofthe organizers and participantsregarding the need forestablishinglarge-scalesystemiccooperationin the sphere of environmental protectionthroughmodern tools of collecting, storing, analyzing and disseminatingenvironmental information.A special praise should be given to the high level of organization by the host – Abu Dhabi
Videoclips:
1. Speech by H.E. Razan Al Mubarak, Secretary General of Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMncIyVkt10
2. Interview with Jacqueline McGlade, United Nations Environmental Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81yUDWRh44
3. Interview with Pierre-Yves Cousteau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4tyA9BHCHY
4. The Summit trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXf_X-_WdVA
5. Video “Data. Revolution” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pFkVJc9is
6. Some photos of numerous sessions, plenary meetings and discussions at the summit.
7. Presentation of Arabic translation of the publication “The European environment – state and outlook 2014”(electronic version available in English a the web-site of European Environmental Agency).
In the course of bilateral meetings there were presentations of the system “Civil Ukrainian PRTR” http://prtr.org.ua/ developed and maintained by EPL.
More information can be found at the web-site of the Summit at http://www.eoesummit.org/ and in the on-line newsletter of the Summit (http://www.eoesummit.org/downloads/EOE%20NEWSLETTER%20Edition%2017.pdf).
