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The Israeli pavilion at COP27 held a special event dedicated to the use of space-based technologies in the battle against climate change and global efforts to address the climate crisis.An event focusing on harnessing space technologies to fight the climate crisis was held yesterday Wednesday 9 November 2022 in the Israeli pavilion at COP 27 the UNs climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt. It focused on the potential contribution of space technologies to Israeli and global efforts to address the climate crisis. The event included presentations by Israeli start-up companies on projects already progressing in this area as well as by key figures in the field Tel Aviv Universitys Prof. Eyal Ben Dor Windwards Adina Fenton Terra Space Labs Alex Silberklang and TomorrowNOW.orgs Georgina Campbell Flatter.Tom Dan Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Innovation Science and Technology said at the event Looking at Earth from space provides us with opportunities we have not considered to reduce and prevent climate crisis damage as well as important new tools for coping with its consequences.Our investments most recently a government resolution totaling NIS 3 billion in partnership with the Ministry of Environmental Protection the Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Energy will yield groundbreaking applied research and new high-tech companies that will have great impact both on Israels high-tech industry and the fight against climate change.Also attending the event were Gideon Bachar special envoy for climate change and sustainability at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uri Oron Director of the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Innovation Science and Technology and Galit Cohen Director-General of the Ministry of Environmental Protection who said Dealing with the climate crisis requires us to strengthen our data gathering and analysis capabilities. Space technologies provide us with opportunities to improve the observation of changes such as in temperatures heat islands sea level fires floods etc. Israel needs advanced capabilities to enhance our understanding of threat scenarios and preparations for them. The Ministry of Environmental Protection is working to build a national risk map that would be able to collect information in all tiers from space the air water and land towards creating sensitive maps that will allow us to understand where it is necessary to act with the greatest urgency.Special envoy Gideon Bachar said Space and satellite technology play a key role in the fight on the global climate crisis. The Israel Space Agency plays a key role here and has the power to make a very significant high-grade contribution to preparing the State of Israel for the emerging climate crisis at the regional level to the building of regional climate resilience and at the global level. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs we will be happy to cooperate and work together with the outstanding team at the Israel Space Agency to bring their wonderful groundbreaking solutions to the entire world.
