GMES

Europe’s commitment to promote sustainable and global governance requires reliable, timely and independent information. The GMES initiative represents a concerted attempt to produce better policy-relevant information.

GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment & Security) is a joint initiative of the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA), addressing growing concern among European policy-makers to have reliable access to information on the environment at global, regional and local level, with emphasis on global change, environmental stress, natural and man-made disasters, management of resources and the security of the citizen.