The presence of the Greek GEO Office and the Greek EO community was once more substantial and well noticed in several sessions.

The Director of the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development of the National Observatory of Athens and Director of the Greek GEO Office, Dr Evangelos Gerasopoulos, in his opening speech as the co-chair of GEO’s Programme Board, highlighted the great expectations of the global community from GEO to contribute with data and knowledge to confronting the impacts from the triple planetary crisis.

He also had the privilege to moderate one of the main Plenary Sessions devoted on “Transformative Programmes for GEO”, introducing the new Structure of GEO’s Work Programme, as transformed to serve the more efficient transition of research to operational services for a wide variety of users, with emphasis on GEO member states.