EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022
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<strong>EUMETSAT</strong> ANNUAL REPORT <strong>2022</strong><br />
European and<br />
international<br />
cooperation<br />
The need for accurate weather forecasts, early warnings of<br />
severe weather events, and understanding of Earth’s changing<br />
climate are global challenges that require global cooperation<br />
to address. Through a framework established by the World<br />
Meteorological Organization (WMO), <strong>EUMETSAT</strong> maintains<br />
global, multilateral, and bilateral cooperation agreements<br />
focusing on data and scientific exchange.<br />
Relationships with<br />
partners in Europe<br />
The Director-General took part in a series of<br />
meetings at ministerial level throughout <strong>2022</strong> in<br />
the lead-up to the European Space Agency (ESA)<br />
Ministerial Council in November, where decisions<br />
of central importance to <strong>EUMETSAT</strong> were made.<br />
Areas of particular significance for <strong>EUMETSAT</strong><br />
were the continuation of the European Union’s<br />
(EU) Copernicus programme, including funding for<br />
the preparation of future missions to be operated<br />
by <strong>EUMETSAT</strong>. This included the AEOLUS windmonitoring<br />
mission, cooperation on space weather<br />
and development of a way forward, studies for future<br />
meteorological missions, the Destination Earth<br />
digital twins initiative and climate monitoring.<br />
“Family portrait” at the European Space Summit,<br />
Toulouse, France, 16 February <strong>2022</strong><br />
(credit: Hamilton de Oliveira/MEFR)<br />
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