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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is an intergovernmental partnership that improves the availability, access and use of Earth observations for a sustainable planet. GEO
 promotes open, coordinated and sustained data sharing and infrastructure for better research, policy making, decisions and action across many disciplines. The GEO community focuses on three global priority engagement areas: the United Nations 2030 Agenda for
 Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The GEO Secretariat and the GEO Progamme Board have launched the process to develop the 2020-2022 GEO Work Programme. You are invited to propose new GEO Flagships, Initiatives
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no later than 15 February 2019.  </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detailed information
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2020-2022 GEO Work Programme webpage<a href="https://nceo.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=355f73d70ae52077a0c72b022&id=f87b0eaafe&e=6576f730b7" id="LPlnk923168" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">For those new to GEO, the Work Programme consists of GEO Community Activities, GEO Initiatives, GEO Flagships and GEO Foundational tasks, collectively known as the GEO Implementation
 Mechanisms. You can get an overview idea from</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">GEO
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am grateful to get the opportunity</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> 
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">to serve in the GEO Programme Board and I am truly impressed with the amazing work that GEO is doing on
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">global priority engagement areas. </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I thank all governments and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">colleagues
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