[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Eumetsat (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to use satellite technology to address climate change issues.
    Under the agreement, announced March 27, the institutions will combine their respective efforts in addressing environmental challenges, particularly in developing countries. Data generated by the JRC’s African, Caribbean and Pacific Observatory for Sustainable Development will be delivered to African countries via EumetCast, Eumetsat’s broadcast system for environmental data.
    “The signature of this collaboration agreement provides a new impulse that will be beneficial to global initiatives like GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), its contribution to Africa and the building of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems,” Lars Prahm, director general of Eumetsat, said in a statement.