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Experts and stakeholders involved in climate adaptation planning, implementation and monitoring are set to explore and identify satellite-based indicators to support climate adaptation policy.

The workshop organised by ESA and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) aims to identify and prioritise EO data research needs, products, and services that can be used to track Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) indicators and to consider the practical steps required to support national adaptation monitoring and evaluation required for transparency reporting.

This event builds on the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Global Stocktake Strategy, currently in development, which identified adaptation as a priority topic and called for closer collaboration between space agencies and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Ultimately the outputs will help to advance efforts to raise the visibility of adaptation as part of the second global stocktake.

Logistics

  • Transport: a complimentary coach from central Oxford (pick up point next to the Ashmolean museum - https://w3w.co/fingernails.stays.almost) to ECSAT will be available as follows:
    • 23/06 - departing Oxford 11:45
    • 24/06 - departing Oxford 08:15
    • 25/06 - coach departs 08:00
  • Onward transport: on 25/6, coaches are available Didcot train station and Heathrow airport, departing promptly at 13:05.
  • Accommodation: Central Oxford recommended

Agenda

Timezone: Europe/London

June 23, 2026 - Day 1
  • 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Registration
  • 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Session 1: Welcome by ESA and JRC

    • Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg and Mark Dowell

      • Welcome by hosts & introduction to the workshop objectives
      • ESA Welcome - Simonetta Cheli (ESA)
      • EC-JRC Welcome - Alessandra Zampieri - Director of the Directorate for Sustainable Resources (EC-JRC)
      • CEOS priorities for adaptation - Alex Held (CEOS Chair/CSRO)
      • Workshop overview and logistics - Sarah Connors (ESA)
  • 2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. Break
  • 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Session 2: Introduction to the UNFCCC's Global Goal on Adaptation

    • Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg

      • The Global Goal on Adaptation - Process to date - Maryam Navi (UNFCCC)
      • Framing EU (update EU Climate Adaptation Strategy) - TBC
      • Unpacking the 59 GGA indicators - Karina Von Schuckman (Mercator Ocean International)
      • Framing EO Science capabilities - Sarah Connors (ESA)
      • Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Ice breaker
  • 5:45 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. Buses depart
June 24, 2006 - Day 2
  • 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 3: GGA Targets, Indicators & EO capabilities

    • Chair: Sarah Connors

      • Mapping of EO to the indicators – first steps - Mark Dowell (EC-JRC)
      • Overview of the initial mapping
      • Using EO for specific GGA Targets: Ecosystems and biodiversity - Chiara Corbari (POLIMI)
      • Using EO for specific GGA Targets: Water - Orestis Speyer (NOA, GR)
      • Using EO for specific GGA Targets: Infrastructure - Thomas Kemper (EC-JRC)
      • DestinE Adaptation Demonstrator: Using Destination Earth Data to calculate GGA indicators - Nicolas Monzali (MEWS)
      • Discussion
  • 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Break
  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Session 4: Compiling Indicators – lessons learned from past practice & indicator mapping

    • Chair: Mark Dowell

      • Composing and compiling Indicators – Perspective from the European Environment Agency (EEA) - TBC
      • StatEO: Report back from the ESA StatEO conference (inc. lessons learned from the SDGs) - Giuseppe Ottavianelli (ESA)
      • The UNSD SDG Today Initiative - Brian O’Connor (UNCCD)
      • Interactive Activity: Indicator Mapping - All participants
  • 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch
      • Demonstration of the DestinE Climate Information for Adaptation Demonstrator (plenary room)
  • 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Session 5: National Adaptation Reporting

    • Chair: Sarah Connors

      • National Adaptation Plans – Overview and entry points - Rohini Kohli (UNDP) & Theresa Wong (IPCC)
      • Learning from NAP support programmes Panel Discussion: what working with countries has taught us:
      • - Perspective from global support programmes
      • - Perspective from the agriculture sector
      • Panellists:
      • - Sven Gilliams (GEOGLAM)
      • - Jeremy Gault (GEO Blue Planet – WG Coastal Adaptation)
      • - UNFCCC Secretariat
      • Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Break
  • 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Session 6: Adaptation Action – How to make EO more useful for adaptation?

    • Chair: Sarah Connors

      • User requirements from the Adaptation community for scientific assessment - Johanna Nalau (Griffiths University)
      • Super Resolution EO / Downscaling EO – capabilities and risks, strengths and weaknesses - Mike Perry (University of Leicester)
      • Potential from new missions - Thorsten Fehr (ESA)
      • - Harnessing new metrics and indicators using EO to go beyond Hazard
      • - Using new, high resolution EO data to extra information on exposure and vulnerability to further inform risk
      • GCOS Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) - Adaptation requirements - Peter Thorne (GCOS)
      • Copernicus Climate Service perspective - Carlo Buontempo (C3S)
      • Discussion
  • 5:45 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. Buses depart
  • 7 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Reception Dinner at the Ashmolean Museum
June 25, 2026 - Day 3
  • 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Session 7: Adaptation Action – regional and local users

    • Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg

      • Mission on Climate Adaptation (RTD) - Jean Dusart (EC DG-RTD)
      • The CEOS EO for Adaptation Handbook: Case Studies from across the globe - Marie-Claire Greening (ESA) & Stephen Ward (CEOS)
      • End-user uptake cases presentations:
      • - DG INPA - Disaster Risk Reduction through Earth Observation and Climate Services - Ramraj Narasimhan (CDRI)
      • - Mission-ADAPT: UNDERPIN project - Fernando Diaz Lopez (HEC)
      • - European urban climate adaptation - KCEO perspective - Miguel Vallejo Orti (JRC)
  • 10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Break
  • 11 a.m. - noon Session 8: Discussion and Consolidation

    • Chair: Sarah Connors

      • Reflections Panel on the discussions so far and next steps
      • - Panellists: Jean Dusart, Johanna Nalau, Susanne Mecklenburg, Theresa Wong, Maryam Navi. Rapporteur: Mark Dowel
      • Discussion and Q&A with audience
      • Meeting Close
  • noon - 1 p.m. Lunch
  • 1 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. Buses depart
Detailed Agenda