CALL TO ACTION: SUSTAINABILITY ON EARTH DEPENDS ON SUSTAINABILITY IN SPACE (Geo Week 2023), Nov 7, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 9:30-10:00 am SAST

As part of the Geo Week 2023 Ministerial Summit, a session moderated by Krystal Azelton of the Secure World Foundation will take place on November 7, 2023 from 9:30-10:00 am South African Standard Time (SAST).

The topic is “Call to Action: Sustainability on Earth Depends on Sustainability in Space” and panelists are:

• Pontsho Maruping, Managing Director at South African Radio Astronomy Observatory & former Chair of the Science and Technology Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS)
• Danielle Wood,  Assistant Professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences, Faculty Lead for African and African Diaspora Studies, & Lead Media Lab Space Enabled Research, MIT

More information is on the SWF website.

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will hold GEO Week and the Ministerial Summit from November 6-10, 2023 in Cape Town.  Some sessions will be livestreamed.