Data Resilience in Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences
With the presence of Latin American Council of Social SciencesThe “Conference of the President of the European Union of Presidents ...Global Meeting on Data Resilience in Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences"Organized by the AGU (American Geophysical Union), around three central themes:
European Energy Transition: The necessary infrastructure for Europe to achieve carbon neutrality was discussed, analyzing the geothermal potential and underground hydrogen storage.
Satellite Glacier Monitoring: The latest data from the 2025 satellite missions were presented, showing the acceleration of melting in Greenland and Antarctica.
Geopolitics of Water: Given that Berlin is a center of diplomacy, there were sessions dedicated to how science can prevent conflicts over water resources in arid regions.
On behalf of CLACSO, he participated Fernanda Pampín, Director of Publications, who highlighted “The importance of our Council as an articulator of the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean on open science. The central objective was to build, in a collaborative and global way, a sustainable and resilient community of data on earth, space and environmental sciences.”
In response to the increasing measures and threats aimed at cutting funding, eliminating and altering scientific datasets, the AGU organized the Meeting to define the long-term measures needed to build a more resilient and robust data system, and to ensure continued access to data for the public and private sectors, thereby ensuring a viable basis for solutions and safeguards.
This meeting, the first of its kind, brought together a representative and diverse sample of experts and leaders from international research institutions, think tanks, universities, and governmental and non-governmental organizations.
It was acknowledged there that the recent harm caused by the withdrawal of funding, deletion, or modification of datasets that have historically been supported by the United States federal government far transcends borders and affects the entire global ecosystem of critical research data and observation platforms.
The participants agreed to continue working on shared governance, a flexible technical framework and better ways to make data interoperable, accessible and transferable, all with the aim of achieving a more resilient global data system.
