38th CEOS Plenary

Session 1: Welcome and Core Business
1.1: Welcome from CSA Vice-President (Space Programs)
1.2: Opening Remarks, Agency Introductions, and Summary of Objectives
1.3: CEOS Executive Officer (CEO) Report

Session 2: Biodiversity
2.1: 2024 CEOS Chair Biodiversity Theme Overview and Report on Outcomes
2.2: Canadian Ecosystem Extent Demonstrator: Hudson Bay Lowlands – Report on Outcomes and Future Developments 
2.3: CEOS Ecosystem Extent Task Team (EETT) and Demonstrator Outcomes
2.4: Future of CEOS and Biodiversity (UNCBD Address)

Session 3: CEOS Working Groups
3.1: Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WCapD)
3.2: Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV)
3.3: Working Group on Disasters (WGDisasters)
3.4: Follow-on: Broader CEOS Engagement with the United Nations’ Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative (For Discussion)
3.5: Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS)
3.6: CEOS-CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate)

Session 4: Carbon, Climate Policy Impact, Greenhouse Gas Observation Coordination
4.1: JAXA SIT Chair Overview of Session and their Climate Policy Impact and Greenhouse Gas Observation Coordination Priorities
4.2: UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST) Lessons Learned and CEOS GST Strategy Update
4.3: CEOS Aquatic Carbon Roadmap Update
4.4: CEOS-CGMS Greenhouse Gas Roadmap Issue 2 
4.5: Greenhouse Gas Best Practices 
4.6: CEOS AFOLU Roadmap 
4.7: Agriculture / GEOGLAM / Essential Agriculture Variables (EAVs) 
4.8: Session Close 

Session 5: CEOS Agency Reports #1
5.1.1: NOAA 
5.1.2: WMO
5.1.3: ECMWF 
5.1.4: DLR 
5.1.5: CSA 
5.1.6: ECCC 
5.1.7: NRCan
5.1.8: GISTDA
5.1.9: EUMETSAT
5.1.10: USGS 

Session 6: Other CEOS Priorities
6.1: CEOS Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Coordination Group
6.2 Letter of Enhanced Cooperation from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Science, Technology, and Innovation Unit – Update on CEOS External Request Process Paper Progress (Step-B)
6.3: CEOS Virtual Constellation Updates – Synthesis Report
6.4: CEOS Analysis Ready Data (CEOS-ARD) Oversight Group

Session 7: CEOS Agency Reports #2
7.1.1: ESA
7.1.2: European Commission 
7.1.3: NIER 
7.1.4: JAXA 
7.1.5: UKSA 
7.1.6: NASA 
7.1.7: ASI 

Session 8: Other Business
8.1: CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) Report
8.2: CEOS Missions, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) Database Report 

Session 9: CEOS Leadership Transitions and Closing Business 
9.1: 2024 CEOS Plenary Montréal Statement 
9.2: Nomination for 2026 CEOS Chair
9.3: United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) 2025 CEOS Chair Themes Presentation
9.4: Review of Preliminary Action and Decision Record 
9.5: CEOS Chair Transition and Photos 
9.6: Closing Remarks