26. Regards the Arctic as a sensitive region where the effects of climate change are especially visible, having serious repercussions on other regions in the world; supports therefore the Council Conclusions on increased cooperation with the UNFCCC and the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) and the efforts to realise the Svalbard Integrated Observation System (SIOS) and the Arctic components of the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory (EMSO), since those initiatives ensure a unique European contribution to understanding climate and environment change in the Arctic region;

Earth and ocean observation systems and monitoring methods for the environment and sustainable development: contribute to the development and integration of observation systems for environmental and sustainability issues in the framework of GEOSS (to which GMES is complementary); interoperability between systems and optimisation of information for understanding, modelling and predicating environmental phenomena, for assessing, exploring and managing natural resources.

– Earth observation: Contribute to the development and integration of observation systems for environmental and sustainability issues in the framework of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems ( GEOSS) ; interoperability between systems and optimisation of information for understanding, modelling and predicating environmental phenomena, and for assessing, exploring and managing natural resources .

– Earth observation: Contribute to the development and integration of observation systems for environmental and sustainability issues in the framework of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems ( GEOSS) ; interoperability between systems and optimisation of information for understanding, modelling and predicating environmental phenomena, and for assessing, exploring and managing natural resources .

The GMES system has four key features. It will provide services to public policy makers and individuals, provide observations from space and in-situ (including airborne systems), and will be able to integrate data and manage information.

(xvi) to monitor and analyse the process of integration and use of ICT in teaching, training and learning, to provide existing quantitative and qualitative information, and to develop improved observation and evaluation methods, in order to share experiences and to exchange good practices with a view to contributing to the follow-up to the Report on the concrete future objectives of education and training systems.