In the climate domain, important goals for GEO include ensuring the sustained provision of data relevant to climate studies, promoting the enhancement of climate observing systems (especially in the terrestrial and ocean domains), facilitating access to quality-assured climate data, and facilitating international coordination of climate observations.

GEO supports the GCOS Implementation Plan, as referred to in the Gleneagles G-8 Summit statement.

Activities for 2006 will focus on:

• Providing coherent, consistent, continuous long-term records for climate datasets and products derived from these datasets
• Expanding observations of climate variables identified in the GCOS Implementation Plan
• Enhancing and improving coordination of terrestrial climate observations and improving coherence in global ocean observation coordination