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Published August 26, 2020 | Version v1
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D4.6 Monitoring of SDGs by COs/CS: Recommendations and priorities

  • 1. IIASA

Description

Citizen science offers a great potential to monitor progress on the SDGs as referenced in the literature (Fritz, et al 2019; Campbell et al, 2020). Given a lack of comprehensive research demonstrating where and how exactly this potential could be realised and which indicators could be supported by data from COs/CS, members of the WeObserve SDGs and Citizen Science Community of Practice (SDGs CoP), launched as part of the WeObserve project, held a workshop to discuss this potential, leading to a perspective piece and a roadmap for mainstreaming citizen science into the SDG process. Secondly, they undertook a systematic review of all SDG indicators and CO/CS initiatives globally, to identify where and how these initiatives are already informing or could inform the SDG indicators by providing evidence to support these claims. This report presents the findings of this research, along with the recommendations and priorities regarding how to bring COs/CS data into official statistics for SDG monitoring. The results are presented as the summary of two peer-reviewed articles published in 2019 and 2020 in the journals Nature Sustainability and Sustainability Science respectively, stemming from activities of and being supported by the WeObserve project.

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D4.6 - 776740 WeObserve - Monitoring of SDGs by COs-Recommendations and priorities_v1.0 (1).pdf

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Funding

WeObserve – An Ecosystem of Citizen Observatories for Environmental Monitoring 776740
European Commission