Eye On Earth Challenges

Eye on Earth Summit is the merging of a progression of activities done by some organisations in the last recent years that addresses the worldwide competition of expanding access to the information and data in order to support sustainable development. It addresses the pivotal significance of environmental information and systems to make decisions. It was firstly introduced in December 2011 by a partnership between the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi (EAD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the attendance of many global leaders and makers of decisions. The Eye on Earth initiative assembles a diverse group of partners to reinforce the learning foundation and access to information for environment and sustainable development. (Eoesummit.org, 2015).

Vision:
The vision of Eye on Earth summit is to get to a place where the …show more content…
They have divided the challenges into internal and external challenges. Internal challenges are the challenges that come from inside of the society not from outside factor, such as the institutional weaknesses, weaknesses of organizational set-up and the lack of resources & infrastructure. While the external challenges mean the outside factors that have an impact on the Arabic society, for example, the lack of support from governments among many countries. Also, the cultural constraints can be another example of external challenges because arab citizens are used to give charity to poor people but not to the environment, they see this as unnecessary process to do. Moreover, Deficiencies in law and order, infrastructural deficits, low standards of bookkeeping, low administrative coverage, low standards of social performance and illiteracy can be another examples of the external challenges that face arab