The United Nations, through its Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), promotes international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. UNOOSA works to establish legal and regulatory frameworks for space activities and helps developing countries use space science and technology for sustainable development. The office also serves as the secretariat for the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and maintains a register of objects launched into outer space. Associated keywords include: international cooperation, space law, sustainable development, COPUOS, and UNOOSA.
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The UK-funded project with UNOOSA will inform future UNOOSA capacity-building efforts to promote the future sustainability of outer space.
Amanda Solloway supports the United Kingdom partnering with the United Nations to implement and promote long-term sustainability standards to emerging and established space-faring nations.
The UK Space Agency–UNOOSA partnership will support international efforts to promote space sustainability by identifying leading examples of the sustainable use of outer space.
By December 2020, all 197 UNFCCC members had signed the Paris Agreement and 189 countries remained parties to it.
VetorGEO is a Brazilian startup focused on Agriculture 4.0 solutions that is collaborating with São Paulo State University (UNESP).
NASA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday, 2020-12-17 to cooperate in areas of science and technology to support the peaceful use of outer space.
The team from Esri, the United Nations Environment Programme, and GEO Blue Planet received the 2020 GEO SDG Award for the Special Category, Collaboration.
Esri partnered with the United Nations Environment Programme and GEO Blue Planet to develop a new statistical approach using satellite data and geospatial technology.
GHGSat planned to release the Pulse map in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of Parties, which was originally scheduled to begin 2020-11-09 in Glasgow, Scotland.
The policy framework will enable the geospatial industry to maximize the benefits of AI/ML while ensuring a positive societal impact aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Signatories support enhancing the scope of digitalization of trade and customs procedures using global United Nations standards to ensure fast and secure exchange of data and information regarding cargo and means of transport.
Esri will provide free licenses for its ArcGIS software to 50 local governments in resource-constrained countries as part of the agreement with UN-Habitat.
Esri has supported six municipalities in Fiji and the Solomon Islands in collaboration with the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific to begin implementing the commitment to provide software support.
The United States raised concerns about the 2017 Russian deployment to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in 2018.
SGAC is collaborating with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs on the Youth 2030 strategy to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs reports that approximately 8,500 satellites, probes, landers, crewed spacecraft, cargo craft, and space station flight elements have been launched into Earth orbit or beyond since 1957.
The United Nation’s Working Group on the LongTerm Sustainability of Outer Space Activities approved 21 guidelines in June.
The 3SOS initiative intends to build on existing efforts including the 21 space sustainability guidelines approved by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in June.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the city of Wroclaw, the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, and Virgin Orbit have expressed interest in cooperating with SatRevolution on the REC project.
UNOOSA and the China Manned Space Agency selected nine international experiments for placement aboard the Chinese Space Station on 2019-06-12.