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The European Green Dealand it’s newData Ecosystem

European Forum for Geography and Statistics - EFGS 2021Darmstadt - Tuesday 7th September 2021

Stefan Jensen

The European Green Deal

TheEuropean

Green Deal

Mobilising industry for a clean and circular economy

Preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity

Leave no one behind (Just Transition)

From ‘Farm to Fork’: a fair, healthy and environmentally

friendly food system

Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way

Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility

Increasing the EU’s Climate ambition for 2030 and 2050

Supplying clean, affordable and secure energy

Financing the transition

A zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment

A European Climate Pact

The EU as a global leader

Mobilising research and fostering innovation

Transforming the EU’s economy for a sustainable future

And leave No one behind

Green Deal and 8th Environmental Action program - our policy context

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current focusImage courtesy: European Commission

EU Data Strategy – innovating the data landscape

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Together with: White paper on Artificial Intelligence (02/2020)

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2018Data spaces – room to engage and further define

Including e.g.: Open Science data cloud, Copernicus DIAS, GAIA-X federated platform

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2018• Initiate „GreenData4All“ initiative – evaluate and review INSPIRE and Access to

Environmental Information Directives (Q4 2021 – Q1 2022)

• Roll out re-usable data-services for large data volumes (Q4 2021)

• Data space for smart circular applications, digital product policy and passports … (2021)

• Pilot for early implementation in the area of „zero pollution ambition“ (Q4 2021)

• Launch „Destination Earth“ initiative - bringing together scientic and industrialexcellence to establish digital model of the earth (starting 2021)

Green data space – underlying EU activities

2018Implementation area - Digital Product Passport

2018Implementation area - Digital Product Passport

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What we need:

Common data standards

Define common data elements

Build on previous standardisation activitiese.g. INSPIRE achievements for spatial (reference) data

Implementation area - Zero Pollution

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Implementation area - Zero Pollution

What we need:

Promote and use digitalisation

within and across sectors

using innovative technologies

2018Scale up the data ecosystem through DIGITALISATION activities

• Innovate and green the IT infrastructure

• Further automate data collection and processing

• Build an enhanced analytics infrastructure(advance modelling and AI approaches)

• Increase the volume and granularity of data

• Improve dissemination and communication infrastructure

2018Automate data collection in organisational data management

2018Integrate different source data into one data ecosystem

2018Apply data science principles in a data ecosystem

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2018Analyse using data cubes and AI methods in a joint data infrastructure

New opportunities:

Combine Tableau (data mining)withDatabricks (Big data, ML &AI)technologies

Bringing together

GridDimensionsLookup tablesCube

concepts

based on the European Reference Grid

2018Visualise - the power of dashboards

What we can:

Integrate geodata and statistics with thematicdata

with e.g.

Land use

Ecosystems

Protected areas

Floodplains

https://tableau-public.discomap.eea.europa.eu/#/views/Imperviousness2018-indicator/Imperviousness2018story?:iid=1

SCoopdriverA EuroGEOSS funded action: Main goal is fostering improved data sharing and management in the context of climate adaptation related policies and initiatives

Strengthening global engagement and exchanges on adaptations(GEO initiatives, Copernicus services, UN-GGIM…)

Mainstreaming climate resilience in key community systems

• Restoring nature, biodiversity and ecosystems services

• Reviving landscapes• Protecting human health• Regenerating community and social

infrastructures

• Tracking impact on different socio-economic groups/aspects

• More and better losses and damagedata by w/c extremes

• Tracking progress of policies

Better data and statistics in supportof EU adaptation strategy

Support projects building data ecosystems across organisations

GEOSS Data Sharing & Management principles

Data Sharing Principles Data Management Principles

• Open data and metadata• Registration and attribution if

necessary• Minimal restrictions when

open data is not possible• Minimum time delay

Data (and metadata) shall be:• Discoverable• Accessible• Usable• Preserved• Curated

https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/open_eo_data/GEO_Strategic_Plan_2016_2025_Implementing_GEOSS_Reference_Document.pdf

https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/open_eo_data/GEO_Strategic_Plan_2016_2025_Implementing_GEOSS.pdf

Promote common methodological approaches

2018Adopt from business initiatives - international data spaces (IDS)

Key principles:

Peer to peer communicationthrough

Reference architecture

Formal standards

Reference implementations

2018Implement data sovereignty e.g. in an industrial data space

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Implementing Data sovereignty

by

clearly negotiated and strictly monitored data usage agreements (supported by IT security)

Implemented through an IDS connector- Data annotated with use policies- Broker- Identity management

2018Environmental reference implementation – Forestry data ecosystem

heterogeniousdata sources automated data transformation data analytics / artificial intelligence

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2018Summary messages

The European Green Deal provides the new policy driver

Digitalisationis the key enabler to help “unlock value from data”

Systemic and cross-sector business cases need more types of data Methods and technologies are out there to support data integrationWe need to keep pushing interoperability through standards in support

Data ecosystems are the way and place to organise this

Data spacesWill facilitate sovereign data sharing within and amongst data ecosystems