GreenSpace Events

GreenSpace Events

Upcoming Events

World Space Week

What is World Space Week? World Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week will be held each year from October 4-10. These dates commemorate two events: October 4, 1957: Launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, thus opening the way for space exploration October 10, 1967: The signing of the Treaty on Princ…
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What comes next after CBES, & what role for integrated climate-nature risk?

This next event in the UK CGFI Leeds Connect series, brings together banks, insurers, building societies, leading climate and nature scientists, and analytics businesses to explore the future of scenario analysis for climate and environmental risks. The CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub is hosting What comes next after CBES, and what role for integrated climate-nature risk analysis? on 8th October 2024, together with the Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme (IFB) and the Resilient Planet Fi…
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GreenSpace Webinar Series: Webinar 1 – Satellite Data in Action

Welcome to the first in the GreenSpace Webinar Series! This webinar will take place on Tue Oct 22 2024 at 10:00 AM BST for 1.5 hours. Our webinars cover a range of topics showcasing the applications of satellite data in a variety of sectors including agriculture, finance, disaster management, and climate change mitigation. In this webinar, Space Hub Yorkshire will provide an overview of the GreenSpace Project, followed by a showcase of three applications of satellite data from three indust…
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Past Events

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GreenSpace Workshop 1

Space Hub Yorkshire’s GreenSpace Project convened it’s first workshop on 23rd June 2023 at the Nexus Building in Leeds. The workshop was convened to engage individuals from GreenSpace-relevant sectors and to facilitate the development of R&D projects. Attendees included senior university academics and personnel from Earth Observation, agricultural, and financial organisations.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Finance

Space Hub Yorkshire’s GreenSpace project and the Satellite Applications Catapult were excited to host Earth Observation for Sustainable Finance on April 17th 2024 in Nexus, Leeds. During this half-day event, we had fantastic speakers and panellists from the UK’s Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI), Virgin Money, Agtelligence, Verisk Maplecroft, and Deloitte, who talked about the challenges in sustainable finance and solutions that EO can provide.