N° 56–2023: Media advisory: ESA emphasises space-based solutions during COP28

With global temperatures hitting record highs, and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe, COP28 is a pivotal opportunity to highlight the importance of collective action to face the climate crisis.

Satellites have played a key role in climate observations, detailing the major changes taking place across the planet, as cited in the IPCC’s latest Sixth Assessment report.

World leaders and experts will convene in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, for COP28, the latest United Nations climate change conference, which will be held from 30 November to 12 December 2023.

A wide range of ESA spokespeople will be available for the duration of COP28, remotely and onsite, to provide expert commentary on the unique and powerful ways in which space can empower the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement and support transparent reporting as part of the Global Stocktake process.

High-level ESA management including ESA Director General, Josef Aschbacher, and ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Simonetta Cheli, will attend COP28, including during the Earth Information Day (3 December) and the Space Agencies Leaders’ Summit (4 December), as well as other dedicated events in the Blue and Green Zones.

Journalists accredited onsite are welcome to visit the ESA booth located in the Blue Zone (TA3-110). The booth will host a wide variety of demos and experts talks aligned with COP28 thematic days during the two-week programme.

Media interviews can also be accommodated at the ESA booth on demand.

Further information

More information on COP28 programme: https://www.cop28.com/

More information about ESA Earth observation programmes: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth

More information about ESA: www.esa.int

Contact

For further information and for interview requests, please contact media@esa.int

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About the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space.

ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world

ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia are Associate Members.

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By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. It is working in particular with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological missions.

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