Planetearth

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2007-2008-2009
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Why an International Year of Planet Earth?

• To demonstrate the great potential of the Earth
  sciences in the building of a safer, healthier
  and wealthier Society
• To encourage Society to apply this potential
  more effectively

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Flyers
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Logos
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UN Year of Planet Earth 2008
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Who is behind it?

• Initiated by the International Union of
  Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• Co-initiated by UNESCOs Earth Science Division
• 12 Founding Partners, 26 Associate Partners

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Focus on

• Science
• Outreach

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10 Science Themes

• 1. Groundwater towards sustainable use
• 2. Hazards minimising risk, maximising
  awareness
• 3. Earth Health building a safer environment
• 4. Climate the stone tape
• 5. Resources towards sustainable use
• 6. Megacities going deeper, building safer
• 7. Deep Earth from crust to core
• 8. Ocean abyss of time
• 9. Soils the living skin of the Earth
• 10. Earth Life origins of diversity

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Publications
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Examples of science activities

• Transparent Earth 11M digital map of the world
• International Science Congresses
• Design for underground cities
• Research grants for students in LDCs
• New Nature Journal on Earth Sciences

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Outreach Programme

• Aims
• Generate greater awareness among the public of
  the wide-ranging importance of the geosciences
  for human life and prosperity
• Stimulate awareness of the societal
  contributions of the geosciences within
  national education systems
• Increase understanding of the societal
  importance of the geosciences on the part of
  decision-makers

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Examples of Outreach

• Balloon launches
• Top Conference in Paris
• Indigenous versus academic knowledge of the Earth
• Geo-buses, trains, ships
• Exhibitions
• Popular books and articles
• New Geoparks
• TV documentaries, DVDs
• Stamps
• New Year Concert Vienna
• Art expressions, geo-poems, paintings

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Output by 2010

• More geoscience-based decision-making, leading
  to
• less casualties, less loss of property from
  geohazards
• Smarter and more sustainable extraction of
  georesources
• More and better use of underground space
• Less people affected by Earth-related health
  risks
• (re-)introduction of geosciences in national
  educational systems
• More students leading to a new generation of
  geo-experts
• Better profile of the profession and related
  industry

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National Committees Year of Planet Earth by 17
February 2007

• 1. Albania 18. Korea
• 2. Australia 19. Lithuania
• 3. Austria 20. Malaysia
• 4. Brazil 21. Mexico
• 5. Bulgaria 22. Mongolia
• 6. Canada 23. Namibia
• 7. Czech Republic 24. New Zealand
• 8. Cyprus 25. Norway
• 9. Estonia 26. Peru
• 10. France 27. Poland
• 11. Germany 28. Romania
• 12. India 29. Spain
• 13. Iran 30. Sweden
• 14. Iraq 31. Switzerland
• 15. Ireland 32. Tanzania
• 16. Italy 33. Turkey
• 17. Japan 34. UK
• 35. Yemen

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National IYPE Committees 17 February 2007
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Patrons

• H.E. Sam Nujoma, Founding President Namibia
• H.E. Benjamin W. Mkapa, Former President U. R.
  of Tanzania
• Sir Mark Moody StewartPresident Anglo American
• H.E. Ruud LubbersFormer Prime Minister the
  Netherlands

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Spanish National Committee (Honour Committee)
President H.H. Princess Cristina de
Borbón Members - Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation - Minister of Education and
Science - Minister of the Environment -
Minister of Public Works - Minister of
Industry, Tourism and Commerce - President of
the Congress - President of the Senate -
Director-General of UNESCO - Spanish Permanent
Delegate Ambassador before UNESCO
- President of the Spanish National
Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO
- Ibero-American Secretary General
- Secretary of State of
Universities and Research -
Secretary General of Scientific and Technological
Policy Secretary President of the National
Commission of Geology
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Spanish National Committee (Executive Committee)
President President of the National
Commission of Geology, in turn Secretary
of the Honour Committee Members - Secretary of
the Spanish National Commission for
Cooperation with UNESCO - Director-General
of Research - Director-General of the Spanish
Office for Climate Change - Representative of
the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences
of UNESCO-Paris - Spanish Representative in the
Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development - Director-General of
Biodiversity - President of the Sub-commission
of External Relations within the National
Commission of Geology - Vice-President of the
Spanish Committee for ICSU - President of
CEICAG - President of the Spanish Committee for
SCAR - President of the Spanish Committee for
INQUA - President of the Spanish Committee for
IGCP Secretary Secretary of the National
Commission of Geology.
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Action Plan in Spain

• SCIENCE PROGRAMME
• Special Call of Proposals Planet Earth, within
  RD National Plan 2007
• Presentations and Special Symposia in national
  and international scientific
• events taking place in Spain
• (National Geological Congress 2008, World Water
  Forum 2008, 4th IUCN World Conservation Congress
  2008, etc)

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Action Plan in Spain (II)
OUTREACH PROGRAMME -Brochure (launching spring
2007). -Photo CD/DVD (launching spring 2007), a
class-aid for all levels of Earth Science
teaching. -Itinerant exhibits aimed at the
general public lectures field trips (starting
spring 2007). -Itinerant lectures in Universities
by relevant national and international scientists
(starting spring 2007). -Formal Presentation of
the National Committee and media release (May
2007). -Formal Opening Ceremony of the IYPE in
the Parliament (Congress) (January
2008). -Official Closing Ceremony in the Senate
(December 2009). -Production and broadcasting of
a TV documentary on the ten topics of the Science
Programme (fall 2007). -Contribution to the IYPE
exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris during
the celebration of the UNESCO General Conference
(October 2007). -Contribution to the IYPE 11
million Global Map initiative.  -Production of a
trans-national geological and structural map of
the Pyrenees in collaboration with the French
National Committee under the patronage of the
CGMW.  
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Website

• www.yearofplanetearth.org