 yours. Can you please introduce yourself and proceed with your speech? Okay, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to the audience from all the parts of the world under SDSN influence. My name is Renato Siminelli and I'm a SDSN member in Brazil. Again, thanks for the presence and support of the audience in the discussions. It is a pleasure to be sharing this subject with you all. Since 2001-18, as a member of SDSN, the Instituto Quadrilátero, the management system of Jobar Quadrilátero for history in Brazil under UNESCO, had been organizing initiatives, webinars, international and local meetings to promote the 17 SDGs as development anchors to mining systems. Other segments of high-territoring influence or impact under the same principles are energy, agriculture, forestry, among others. The growth of ESG practices and strategies in many important segments as that SDGs and ESG practice parameters indicators be compatible. Although today ESG is strategically restricted to internal industrial operations, the future is for both to be managed, integrated or overlapped. Thank you very much and I hope I wish a great event today. Please, Ebert. Hello everyone, thanks for coming. My name is Ebert Jihamos. I'm working in G821 Group. I am CEO at G821 ESG Analytics. G821 is a four-company group which are G821 minor or consulting, G821 virtual reality, G821 geotechnology, and G821 ESG analytics. I hope we can share good information and opportunities to work. Christian? Hello everyone, my name is Christian Freitas. I work G821 Group as a special GIS and I will show you today some cases that we work for the state of Sao Paulo. Can I begin the cases? Sure, Christian, go ahead. You want to introduce something, Ebert? Yes, I would like to share my screen here. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay, we are going to talk about the gridding SDGs and ESGs throughout the GEL expansion insights. We divide the presentation in four parts, who we are, our approach about ESG, some cases, and the ESGs as a competitive advantage. As I said, G821 is a four-group, a company's group, and the group has a multi-disciplinary team with over the 40-year experience in consultants, engineering, geosciences, and geotechnologies. At G821 Geoanalytics, ESG analytics, we seek to make our client investment more efficient and sustainable throughout the geotechnology and geosciences. Okay, but what is ESG? It's okay. Well, ESG can be summarized as practice to describe the quality of component social, environmental, and governmental performance. The term was used for the first time in 2004 by the United Nations and the World Bank in a report called Request Wins, initially as a provocation to the financial market. Since then, the market in general has been consolidated in the review of acting in accordance with ESG standards, increase the competitiveness. Well, according to this view, ESG, the driving approach is essential to support the decision-making. Analysis and planning need to consider the specificity of the territory. Gel-spatial data must be integrated to ESG and observational data to generate insights about assets, projects, companies, and geographic areas. In a nutshell, risks are in the intersection among project data, environmental data, and social data. Well, there are several standards to guide ESG's implementation, such as GRI, SASB, TSN, and so on. Most of them start with the materiality. We've consisted in identifying and prioritizing material issues to stakeholders, and not just to shareholders and to address ESG's targets. And here we have what's possible, bridge. We can consider three basic steps to incorporate or to improve ESG practices. Defining materiality, planning goals, actions, and investments, monitoring, and report results. So, a data-driven ESG approach in an ESG data-driven approach, materiality, plans, and reports must be based on data. That means it is required that the infrastructure designed to connect to public and proprietary data services is stored in different data formats, allow effective monitoring in reporting. The datasets include satellite images, observational data, mapping, documents and reporting, data stream like video, 3D data, social network data, and so on. G-21 gel technology has already developed several geospatial data and data science projects. Some of them to support ESG implementation and to address ESG targets. Now, Christian will present you some example of these projects. Christian, do you want to share your screen or you can use my screen? I'll share my screen. Okay. Everybody can see? Okay, everyone. So, let's go to the cases. We have two cases to present to you today. The first case, it's about ecological economic reasoning of the state of Sao Paulo. We call it ZEE for short. And the second case is for resilient Sao Paulo municipalities. It's a project focused on climate change and how can the local government can face the consequences of climate change. And the second case is more focusing actions, measures, projects. And the ZEE or the Zoning, Ecological Economic Zoning of Sao Paulo, it's more like a policy. But we're going to get a little bit into the cases. Just to have a little context, the zoning, the instrument of zoning, it's defined by law in Brazil for those who are not here in Brazil. It's defined by a federal law in 1981. The law created the instrument, this policy. In 2002, the policy was regulated by a decree. And in the decree, it has to focus to main points, the ecological sustainability and the social economy. Inside the social economy, there are concepts of economic growth. And I'll already make some correlations with the SDGs, because it's important to know the concept, the initial concept of the zoning already gathered this kind of concept. In the case of ecological sustainability, you can talk about the goals 6, 14 and 16. In the case of social economy, we're talking about economic growth, protection of natural resources, present and favor the future generation, recognition of the interest value of biodiversity. All this comes from the decree in 2002, a federal decree. For any states in Brazil to create their own zoning, they have to establish their own laws. In Sao Paulo in 2002, they made this decree in the creating the instrument of ZEE. And when they were created, they specify some guidelines to focus to the actions that will take on this project. The guidelines was resilience to climate change, water protection, biodiversity protection, complexity. They already mentioned the connection between the instrument, this policy instrument with AESG and SDGs. They already sit in the documentation. The distractive guidelines have been used as a thematic focus on the preparation of ZEE. And in general, are connected with the main world agenda, focus on sustainability, adaptation to climate change, implementation of the 2030 agenda. So they call it AESG, SDGs and AESG as instruments to correlate with the actions that would take place in this policy and this instrument they will create. So they came up with this challenge to create this ZEE with all these ambitious goals and GA21 was called to help them the state of Sao Paulo to achieve the goals of this project. The project has three main steps. It has a diagnosis step, has a prediction step and an implementation step. In the diagnosis, they work gathering, integrating various maps and reports. All these data have to be integrated to be analyzed. And with this analysis, they can make predictions, create scenarios and projects to climate change. It's a very important part of the discussion. In the end, you can make all this information and we make the zoning of the state of Sao Paulo. It's important to highlight that the zoning is not a simple byproduct of the overlay of information. It's discussion. It's the product of analysis of the specialist. So it's not about pure jail processing. It's about discussion also and mainly about discussion and coming to an agreement between the specialists. To achieve these steps and the goals of these steps, GA21 proposed for the state of Sao Paulo, especially for the Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, the creation of STI. The STI would be an interesting tool to achieve this component because it can help any of all these steps. In the end, you can discuss and create the zoning that will be a favor, the goals that they established in the beginning of the project. So for the first step, we understand that the organization that organized the information they give is access. It's very important because we have a vast amount of information spread to multiple institutions. Some information was created by the specialist on the self. So we have a place to put this information, integrate this information and document this information. The STI is important. The infrastructure is important because it has the concept of metadata. So we're creating a system to organize the metadata. We can achieve the organizational information for people to consult, for people to start to elaborate this analysis that come from a necessity of understanding what's happened and make the diagnosis of environmental and economic of Sao Paulo, state of Sao Paulo. In the end, I will show some numbers so you can see how many information, how many layers we gather in this metadata system. Also, we have the second step, the step that focused on creating scenarios and climate projections. The main source of information for climate change and climate scenarios came from a specific project named Procheta. The information was distributed on the Internet but in a raw format. So it's very difficult to use immediately in any GIS software. So what we did to gather this information in this project called project Procheta, you have many climate variables with scenarios that goes to the year of 2100. In English, it would be 2100, something like that. It's very far. So it's important to see at least they establish a limit of 2050 the year and they will make these projections, these predictions of climate. So one of the steps, main steps that we did in the project was how to gather this information, this raw information and transform this information and this data and information to be consumed. We did this using a concept of geographic ETL. ETL became more than a tool. It's a concept of extract and transform data, GIS data, mainly in the case of GE21, we work with GIS data. We can extract this information from the site, from this project and we get together in a database and it creates a tool to be used in the GIS software, the conventional GIS software to transform and process this information. So the specialists that work at the zoning, they can choose the prediction model, they can choose the climate variable and they can choose a time frame. With these three variables, these three parameters, they can create many maps. In the case of GE, they ended up creating almost 100 map layers to be used to discuss the climate change in the state of Sao Paulo. It's a very interesting, the source of the information. It's a very vast, very interesting and the creation of a system that can extract this information and transform this information was also very interesting from the GIS point of view. We are very proud that we can make this happen for the specialists to use this information and discuss the analysis with the specialists. All this information was transformed in maps and show to be used and discussed with people, people from the government, people from the society. It's important to highlight that the GE is not a discussion only for the specialists. At some point, all the decision has to come to agreement with the civil society. In the end, to accomplish the third and last step, we have to integrate all this information, all this analysis in an environment, in a system, and we choose not only our web GIS, but a system that can create many contexts of visualization. We are not talking about only maps. We talk about maps and dashboards. From the metadata, we can gather this information and construct some context. Every box that you see in the screen is a context, a thematic context in which the specialist will discuss something about climate change, something about water protection, about biodiversity, about inequalities. All this environment, all this web GIS, all these dashboards were created by the specialist using the information that we gathered and documented in the metadata. These maps was offered to the specialists. They organize every context according to the objectives, to the goals that they have to discuss. They can overlay this information, analyze this information, overlap all this information, and not only maps, but dashboards and maps. It can work with this kind of modern tools. Today, they are very common, but at the time, they are very restricted. The type of information we have to work all working and international standards, which are sometimes very difficult to find the right tools to do this. So we have many information that we gather. In the end, it was very interesting because the SDI in itself can accomplish or become an instrument to achieve a goal of SDG, in the case we're discussing about the nine goals, the goal number nine, especially in the access to information and communication technology. So the infrastructure that we create to help the specialists of the state of Sao Paulo to define the zoning, the economic and ecological zoning of this state. The instrument that we create on itself, it became an objective to achieve an SDG goal to give access to information. All this platform, all this SDG, SDI, it's free to be accessible to anyone that get interested and dive into all this information. In the end, the ZEE gathered more than 200, 2000 layers of information, all documented with metadata, organized in more than 160 maps and dashboards. The information was a vast and very diverse kind of information. This was the case of the ZEE. The second case, it's more specific about the climate change, to help the local government, the municipalities, to face climate change in the state of Sao Paulo. It was choose 13 local governments in one region, literal region of Sao Paulo to work with this project. The project has a main goal. It's represent the opportunity to discuss and propose policies and actions related to adaptation and climate resilience based on sharing experience, information and good practices. In the case of ZEE, we talk more about policy, instruction and defined policies. In the case of PMPR, for short, is the nickname of this project. It's more about actions, measures, all projects, a list of projects that the local government have to make to face the climate change. If you're going to look at this project, specific project, from the STG perspective, in all its documentation, they already mentioned the objective, the goals, 5, 11, 13 and 17 of the STG. From the STG perspective, it's very important for them to achieve good governance, to look at financial resource. All the solutions, all the proposed measures, has to be sustainable from the financial point of view. This is very important because we're dealing with government, local governments, but they have to be very careful about how much they could spend in this kind of solution. They have to look for the ecosystem services. It's a new concept to tackle the problems, but understand that the problem is complex and deal with many aspects. We have to deal with the ecosystem services and instruments for warning and health problems. We have to create some kind of practices that local government can use to help to prevent any problems on consequences of climate change. It's very important specifically in the state of São Paulo in these last years. Again, the goal of the project itself is to encourage municipalities in the state of São Paulo to organize and use data and information collected in project and state plans as a useful tool for planning local measure to adapt climate change. The focus of the project, we gather the local government representatives and make them create some measures, some projects, sustainable projects to avoid, to prevent, to correct problems and consequences of climate change. So, GE21, because of we have this experience with STI in São Paulo, we are called to help them to achieve these goals. We propose the use of the GIS tools that is compatible with the STI to gather many information. Not only because this information is important to define the projects, but because of the diagnosis that some local governments have deficiencies and define and create their own diagnosis. So, we have to gather this information. We have proposed the use of GIS tools that is compatible with the STI, a GIS tool that is capable of connect and analyze data coming from geoservices. This is very specific because they are not producing information. They are gathered information to work with information that belongs to other institutions. We have to deliver a tool that is capable of collecting this information and analyze all this information. And in the end, they have to discuss and create the solution for these problems. So, we create a GIS tool that allows co-creation. For that, we work with the concept of gel design. It's a framework. Some of you may are familiar with this concept that help people create together information based on geographic data to gather solutions that will be accepted by the majority of people. So, we create this tool. We delivered for him this kind of tool to work with the problem. Again, this view tool can create many contexts of visualization, not only maps, but dashboards also. Each local government has its own environment, its own ambience, its own context to view the information of his local information. They create and organize this information. They did this. It's not us that create and organize. They made this. We teach them to organize this information. Inside this view context, they create the information, organize the information according to some criteria. Information were organized according to adaptability. Let's remember we are always talking about climate change. So, the information was organized about adaptability, sensitivity, exposure, risk, and of course, climate. Each context gather more than 100 data layers, map layers, so that the specialists can work through and analyze what's happening in their own region, what's going on and what's going to happen with the climate change. Inside this context, they are capable of connected to any SDI available in Brazil specifically. They can connect this information in any format, bring more information to the table to discuss the solutions and to define or create a landscape of what is happening in the region, and then they can pass to define the solution. To go to the solution phase, we work with the gel design. We teach them to work with this concept of gel design. Just to give a little bit of context, gel design is a construction, a planing method in which the creation of a proposal and impact of simulation informed by the geographical context are strongly linked. What we are trying to say here is the people will create the solutions, create the measures, the actions, the projects in this region, and in the process of creating the solutions, they have to understand what impact these solutions have to do with this local environment. It's very important to make these solutions, understanding what has happened to the local environment and of course to the climate change process. This tool is important because we highlight the focus of the goal of the project. It's a useful tool for planning. Gel design was an important part of the solution because it is a tool for planning in local measure. It's important for the representative of the local government to understand that they have available this kind of tool and information to work with. We teach them. In the time we are going through the pandemic, so we can't do a presence meeting, so we have to do everything full online, 100% online, so we have to teach them to use and create this context of visualization and how to use gel design to understand information and work to define the solutions. We did these many meetings, online meetings with many important local governments and state governments, representatives of local government and state government. In the end, we presented this tool in which the local government can, inside this visualization context, this context of visualization create the solutions. The solutions that have to be special, it has to be located in the space, in the geographical space because once they find what kind of measure are actions or solutions or projects, they want to go for it. We have to analyze this project with some kind of metrics to define the impact or risk of these projects that don't be sustainable. In this screen that you see now, the people define, they draw the solution and in real time, we can establish what positive impact the solution can have. In this example, I give you the SDGs goals. In this particular case, we are measuring the positive impact of the solutions, this specific solution and the SDG goals, positive impact and negative impact. With this, we can, after discussed, all the solutions, proposed solutions and from the list, in the end, we have a list of projects of measures, of actions that people will choose, whose projects will be approved, whose projects will be disapproved by all the collectors of specialists and defined in this special context. It was very interesting because it can already make gel design work in some practical terms. It's very interesting to see that the tool was helping the local government create these instruments to help them to get a list of projects that can be choose to be put in execution in short term. All the both cases, the ZE, the zoning cases and the resilience case of local government, what's very interesting because it can make us not only use GIS data, but to create GIS tools that can work with this data and get it to practical terms and find the solutions. I hope I could be clear. You can discuss later. Thank you, guys. Okay. Thank you. Just to conclude the presentation. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Christian. Just to conclude. As you know, ESG, STDs and ESG is about sustainability in overall, but it's also about creating and protecting value to the complex. In short term, ESG and STDs improve operational vision, enables capital access, reduce risk of regulatory sanction and helps obtain and maintain the social license to companies. In the middle term, in the middle and long term, it increases competitiveness, revenue, innovation, governance and reputation in brand value. Well, it was our presentation. Geo-Atenuano specialists supported by Geo-Technology, Geo-Atenuano specialists help companies to implement and report ESG best projects and address the STDs targets, which communicates environment and social responsibility. Solid governance, reduce costs, increase profitability, improve reputation and resilience. Thank you very much, and we are available to discuss in the end of the presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Avert. Thank you, Christian, and thank you, Renato, for your presentations. It looks like we already have a lot of questions in the chat, so what I'll do is I'll quickly just go through my slides and then we'll open it up for Q&A and discussion, where the participants can raise their hand and mute themselves or use the chat function to ask any questions that they have of any of the presenters that we heard from today. So once again, I'm Mary Emerby. I'm with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, so you heard a little bit about SDSN from Renato. Let me go ahead. I forgot to share my screen. I can start with a very brief introduction to our organization. So SDSN was launched in 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and the mission of our organization is to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement at local, national, and global levels. We are a global network of knowledge institutions that are working on the SDGs currently, and I'm sure this number is probably not the most up-to-date, but the last time I checked, we have about 1,800 member institutions where about 80% of them are academic and research institutions all doing incredible work on the SDGs. So we have a lot of geographic networks that are established. So as you heard, Renato is leading SDSN Brazil. We have active national and regional networks all around the world where academics and GEOs, CSOs are all working on different aspects related to the Sustainable Development Goals. We've already heard from Christian and Norbert about the SDGs and I think everyone's already familiar with them, so I don't think I need to go into too much detail or provide an introduction, but just to kind of set the scene for the work that we do at SDSN, we have a set of 17 goals, 169 indicators and 269 targets and 231 indicators that help member states to measure and monitor progress against each of these goals. So similar to some of the work that Christian and Norbert mentioned in terms of addressing environmental, social, and economic issues, those are kind of the same three core principles of the Sustainable Development Goals and they cover a wide range of issues, as you can see poverty, hunger, access to clean energy, climate, and environmental issues. And a lot of the indicators and targets are trying to measure access to services or we have to understand population movements in order to measure some of the indicators for the SDGs, so that's where geospatial information and technologies come into play and play a very important role in monitoring, implementing, and achieving the SDGs. So we already heard from Herbert and Christian a few examples of how they're using GIS and geospatial information and different tools to support ESG principles. So today I'm going to provide a little bit of information on how we use different geospatial sources and tools for the work that we do at SDSN. So as I mentioned, SDSN on the one hand is a global network of member institutions that are all doing incredible work related to the SDGs, but within our secretariat we also have thematic networks that focus on different angles and aspects related to the implementation or monitoring of the sustainable development goals. I'm leading the geospatial arm of SDSN, so one of those thematic networks within the secretariat and our focus is on advancing the use and production of timely and geospatial data and technologies for the sustainable development goals. This program was launched about three years ago now in partnership with ESRI and National Geographic and over the past three years our work has kind of evolved into three core priorities. So the first one is data curation production and visualization. So for this work stream, what we do is we work with a lot of different teams from different sectors all around the world that are doing innovative work using nontraditional data sources to measure and monitor issues related to the SDGs. So we work very closely with the teams. We have a set of criteria that we use to kind of review and evaluate the data against and if it meets our criteria we work with the data providers and these teams to basically package the data in a way that would be accessible to a wider SDG community. So whether you're a policymaker with very limited time or a researcher that's interested in doing further analysis or a journalist who's curious to know what the state of some of the SDGs are you know as it is you know in the past hour or in the past day and this is kind of a space we've created where we feature a lot of those data sets. We'll go through a couple examples together. We provide all the metadata all the underlying geospatial layers the original data sets so it's a repository of data layers and information that those who are concerned with the SDGs can use for their own work as well. So the next the second work stream kind of evolved because we realized that you know dashboards are a great tool it's a great way to kind of understand what the data set is trying to communicate but at the same time some audiences want to better understand what kind of impact that data has why is it important to collect that data what impact is it having you know on their community or in their society and so story maps and storytelling kind of allows us to create a narrative that further contextualizes the data it allows us to feature use cases different research projects the way different tools and applications are being used among a community or a company and so it's a way to further contextualize the data and also add more multimedia content so it's not just the data that you're interacting with a lot of times you know companies or organizations or a research team they have a story to tell about you know why the data was produced or how it was produced and the impact that it's having so it allows them to embed videos add other kinds of multimedia content so it's become a really great tool even for us internally to use for a lot of our reporting as well and then the third core priority is focused on education and capacity development so the president of our organization professor Jeffrey Sacks he's very keen on kind of mainstreaming GIS and increasing awareness about geospatial information and technologies among different user groups and different age groups and so we have a wide range of different programs and activities that hopefully are supporting different SDG communities with better understanding some of the tools and data sets that we have available on our website and other platforms as well so that they can integrate kind of a geospatial lens into the work that they're doing related to the SDGs so this is just kind of a snapshot of some of the maps and dashboards that we have on our platform we have about 50 plus data partnerships so I'll show you a couple of examples and you'll see what the page looks like and where you can find all the information this is just kind of a snapshot of different kinds of categories of story maps that we feature on our platform so I'll show you a couple examples of how countries are using story maps to report on their SDGs we also as I mentioned kind of use the story map tool to feature different technologies that have been developed so for example we have one story map from the American University of Beirut where they've developed a map that supports farmers with smart irrigation so it kind of is an intro to the app but it's also provides some context on how it's being used and then we also use the story map tool for different use cases research projects data initiatives and different activities we'll feature I'll show you a few examples from from Brazil later throughout the presentation and then as I mentioned the third kind of core priority is focus on education and capacity development so one of our most popular programs is our annual summer GIS program for middle school and high school students which we just concluded I believe last week so it's a 10 week program it's free and virtual and open to students from anywhere and we usually provide lessons basic training on GIS lessons on the SDGs and also on digital storytelling we have guest speakers from different sectors talk to students about different topics related to the SDGs this summer the the program was focused on COP 28 and a lot of different climate challenges and throughout the summer the students choose a topic usually kind of a sustainability challenge that they're facing in their own communities and they use the the skills and the knowledge from this program to develop a a solution or to do a research project and they present their final project in a story map format so we're currently reviewing the submissions and we'll be promoting and and sharing the results in the next couple of months so we usually host this program every summer and then we have engaged in other activities so we worked with a couple of different academic institutions that are also SDSN members like SDSN Brazil to help them integrate GIS into the research projects that they were doing so we provided some training kind of went through a little bit of planning and design with them and they all did a really wonderful job in kind of using GIS for different research projects that they each were undertaking we have all of these available on our website I'll share link in the chat after I'm done so you can take a look at the incredible work that they've done and we also provide create different lessons or tutorials or step-by-step guides that can help you kind of get started with our GIS or if you're a little bit more advanced to learn how to use some of the different amazing tools that they have so we have a series of video tutorials on just you know basic kind of GIS lessons that you could follow through or we have guides on how to use ArcGIS image to monitor vegetation change over time so depending on kind of where you're at in your ArcGIS journey we have material that can hopefully support you. These are just highlights of a couple of different collaborations and partnerships we have so we do connect with different geospatial centers and programs across different universities so if we have anyone in the audience that we haven't connected with yet we'd be happy to explore synergies with you we also collaborate with a lot of different international initiatives that are also doing work on earth observations and GIS and we also engage with teams that are kind of trying to promote data-driven narratives around the SDGs and advocate for the use of data and so some of our data sets have been featured in some of those global campaigns. This is just some of our contact information and where we kind of make announcements and promote some of the different resources that we have available on our website so feel free to follow us if you'd like to stay tuned on different updates and developments. I am quickly I see that we're we don't have a lot of time left so maybe what I'll do is as we kind of open it up for Q&A I can just show some examples of the data sets and story maps in in the background so that will be kind of the visual background in scene for for you to explore but I do want to leave room for a Q&A and discussion so we do have about 20 minutes left so perhaps we can get started with some of the questions and I'll just share some links in the chat and show some of the visuals and in the background. Great so I do see that there are some questions in the chat for those who've already added them would you like to unmute yourselves and ask the question or should we just go through the chat? Hi Mari, I'm happy to do this. I'm Irene Galu, I added two questions actually that I should start with the one for Christian maybe so it's actually two questions. I'm a teaching fellow here in Strothclyde University in Glasgow and we are actually leading the Scottish CSN subgroup of the UK bigger regional group and I was really impressed by the work congratulations and would really like to learn more about the collaboration with the local authority and the framing of this work so my question was about how was it instigated by the local government or was it something that you suggested to them because there needs to be I guess some level of understanding of GIS tools as a baseline for this communication so I'm really keen to understand more and the second sub question was about if you have any publications on the criteria for adaptability sensitivity that you showed because there seems to be a lot of decisions there in terms of structuring the information. Thank you. Thank you. Can I answer? I hope I say your name right. In the context of the project it is a state initiative. It's a cooperation between the state of Sao Paulo with the the German cooperation agents for sustainability sustainable development so the the short name for the agency GIZ, I don't know in English how it would be name it but they have many initiatives in Brazil they produce many data, many information about climate change specifically so the main goal of this this project the resilience project is so the the local government local authorities can make use of this vast information that can they produce along many years for many projects. So it is a state initiative to to gather the local government to make them part of the process of the getting to a solution. When they choose the representatives to the local government who is specified that it's important that some of these representatives have some knowledge of GIS but not all, not all, all representatives have this this information. The branch was not from all the states they choose some local government some municipalities Sao Paulo has more than 600 municipalities they choose only 13 it's a prototype let's say so if you ask for a criteria since it's a prototype they don't they don't they go for the projects to to see if this kind of methodology will work with this local government so they don't don't came with a specific of criteria or of directives they they try to make a project to see what will work and gather these local governments to work together. The project is a continual project they don't end in the time frame they can work as as long as the states allow the the structure that we create it's it's online so they're gonna pick municipalities and incorporate to the project and try to work with this information so we they don't have any publications specifically to the criteria for sustainability because it comes from the data what kind of data people can understand or can comprehend to use in this kind of solution was it's more than more than a project to get to the solution on itself it's more maybe some kind of school to to to help the local government how to create solution using GIS information using GIS tools and and gather all these sg goals esg goals and how can incorporate all this concept and create the solution so it's more than a more an apprehensive project than a final project i hope i answer your question thank you yes it was very comprehensive thank you um are there any other questions feel free to unmute yourself um or add your question to the chat i see there are some questions about accessing the platforms so um and i think my colleague has shared the links to some of our websites but if you need more information let us know i'm trying to look through the track to see if i've missed any questions uh yes so the 10 week course um if you go to the sggs today website uh under the education tab you'll see um there's a page dedicated so you can find all the material and recordings from previous years uh we still haven't uploaded this year's um uh recordings or material yet we'll probably do that in the next month or so but you'll find a lot of information about the program on on that page great thanks Sunela for sharing that in the chat see um or uh there's a question about events in europe um so um sdsn if you go to the sdsn website that my colleague has shared in the chat we usually do have announcements of all of our upcoming events uh on the platform uh so a lot of them are virtual um and for the in-person ones you can kind of see if there are any uh in europe uh that are listed on the platform um great and uh yeah for each of the other teams that presented uh i think we all use our platforms and social media channels to promote any events so keep an eye out for any that might be happening in person in in europe um Bernardo do you have a question would you okay go ahead question uh the first one what would be the your system approach to updating uh past and recent events okay and future previews because we understand that this changes all the time okay how this would be inserted in your your system and second uh are the the private sector appreciating the this geospatial uh approach to eventually develop develop project that would be of interest of of a group of of companies because this is public data available and all this company will need those uh let's say interprets or esg and sdg let's enjoy development are they uh starting to let's say look for a way to make it more economical and eventually contract it together that's it thank you Bernardo those are two great questions um i don't know if they were directed at me or um maybe both teams but i can i can give it a shot and then hand it over to um my colleagues from g 21 to respond to that uh so regarding the first question uh as you said it's um it's a it's a space um in an environment where there's a lot of rapid change and so it's kind of an ongoing discussion internally among our team and with a lot of our data partners just to keep up with a lot of the developments um and in terms of how we kind of continue that discussion um with our audience so ronardo as um you are aware we've had these webinar series where once a month we try to connect with a lot of our different users just to kind of update them on what we're doing and to also learn from them about the work that they're doing so that we can explore opportunities to collaborate and just explore synergies and learn from the work that everyone's doing within this space so that's kind of been our effort or using different international um uh events uh to connect with uh with others within this space to learn about what um what the what they're doing as well uh in terms of the private sector so um in the context of the work that we do so azery is um a major partner uh in um you know a lot of the work that we do uh they've made a lot of efforts to engage other kind of um private sector entities within this space but also for them to connect with the nonprofit space as well and to create opportunities for them to collaborate and contribute particularly in the sdg space uh there's also efforts um within un ggim which is the un committee on global geospatial information management there is a subgroup on that's called the private networks private sector network um and so they um uh i haven't been as active in that group but i know that they are making efforts to try to make that connection within the geospatial space uh in particular so there are efforts that are being made um and uh i think there's a lot more we can do at least uh with um public private partnerships uh in the context of the sdg work that we're doing but um uh still a long way to go but i think that we've definitely made have made some some progress um over the years and the sdgs um have mobilized some of these some of these efforts um Charles christian sorry go for sure for sure in this case of sdg the men go with uh to provide uh dynamically to to to have a zuni up to date up to date with uh climate change up to date with water and then other questions relate to sdgs so it's a very dynamic to to to maintain this this life on the screen are there any other questions or comments um from the audience um we'd be happy to hear about the work that you're doing if you'd like to share um any work that you might be leading within this space uh of sg sdgs um to use spatial information and technologies we also i think we've shared um or maybe we can share our uh contact information in the chat for anyone who would like to follow up with uh any questions or comments or requests great yes feel free to share your work in the chat as well we'll be saving the chat and overview um all of the links and information that you've all shared with us um for uh we have i think my colleagues have shared the link to our website and we have our contact information available on the website um if you'd like to reach out via email um but thank you for sharing your email um if we don't have any other questions or comments uh i think we can close the session and stay in touch um via via email and um we've been talking about maybe uh future events or um uh turning this into a webinar series so stay tuned we might have um other events coming up uh in the future is anyone working on using gis to track trees for carbon credits um we i'll answer that before um i handed over to my colleagues i don't think we have anything on our platform um but uh happy to share some uh resources that would be relevant um to to this work if you don't mind emailing us um we can share that information with you but we don't have as of yet anything on our platform great okay well once again thanks to um all the the speakers uh for your time and for your presentation today um and we hope to continue the discussion uh with you and also with our audience uh and to learn more about um what everyone's doing within this space and to explore opportunities to work with each other to advance the sdgs and the sg thank you everyone thanks okay thank you thank you have a great day you guys have a great day too bye