New big earth data to facilitate global sustainable development

Time：2022-10-10
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Source：http://www.china.org.cn/world/2022-09/26/content_78437895.htm

On 20 September 2022, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired a ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative (GDI) in New York. As the initiator of the Global Development Initiative (GDI) and the world's largest developing country, China announced seven additional measures to implement the 2030 Agenda, including making data obtained from the Sustainable Development Scientific Satellite (SDGSAT-1) launched last November available to countries around the world to assist in sustainable development research and decision-making.

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According to the introduction, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a series of sustainable development goals (SDGs), which involve poverty eradication, hunger elimination, ecosystem protection, and improvement of the human habitat. The monitoring, assessment and scientific research of the SDGs cannot be carried out without the support of relevant data.

Launched in November 2021, SSDS-1 is the world's first scientific satellite dedicated to serving the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which can monitor the interaction between human activities and the natural environment in fine detail and provide dynamic, multi-scale and cyclical information for the implementation of the SDGs.

The service system of the ‘Open Science Programme for Sustainable Development Scientific Satellite 1’ has been officially launched, which will provide scientific satellite data for domestic and foreign scientists engaged in sustainable development research, and provide data support for reducing development imbalance and narrowing the digital divide between regions.

At the meeting, China released the ‘Report on Earth Big Data Supporting Sustainable Development Goals (2022)’, covering 42 typical research cases, focusing on 7 SDGs, involving 31 sets of data products, 21 methodological models and 33 decision support information, providing scientific evidence for quantitatively and systematically interpreting the process of achieving the global SDGs, as well as accurately grasping the trend of indicator dynamics.

The above results are developed by the International Research Centre for Big Data for Sustainable Development and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ‘Earth Big Data Science Project’ Pilot Project, and will continue to carry out the development of related data products in the future, so as to provide data support for global sustainable development.

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