A global setting for European environmental monitoring — measuring what we must manage. EEA international conference, 13-15 May 2009. Key conclusions

The European Environment Agency (EEA) held a two and a half day senior-level meeting in Copenhagen, 13–15 May 2009, on 'A global setting for European environmental monitoring — measuring what we must manage'. The aim was to explore concrete ideas for building a sustainable and focused observing capacity that would best satisfy ongoing European needs, and provide inputs from Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and other programmes to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).