UNESCO index of open science knowledge sharing platforms

Promotes international collaboration and information sharing for the improvement of relationships between people and nature across the world.

Includes a comprehensive range of freely available and up-to-date molecular data resources.

Contains a variety of Essential Biodiversity Variables raster datasets.

Allows naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists to record and share observations of biodiversity across the globe.

Provides biodiversity knowledge assessments for scientists and policy makers.

Provides over 45 million observations of nearly 120 000 marine species from the surface to 10 900 meters depth.

Provides a comprehensive, robust, up-to-date and accessible data management system for Key Biodiversity Areas.

Provides anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

Includes data, information and tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation, notably on water resources, earth sciences, biodiversity and the ocean.

Includes a bibliographic database of global literature on the science of climate impacts on human health.

Provides statistical tools linking climate considerations and global economic indicators.

Provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts.

Provides access to National Centers for Environmental Information archive of global historical weather and climate data.

Provides authoritative information about the past, present and future climate in Europe and the rest of the World.

United Nations body that provides governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate strategies and policies.

Includes data, information, tools and services for disaster preparedness and risk reduction.

Provides support in assessing tsunami risk, implementing Tsunami Early Warning Systems (EWS) and in educating communities at risk about preparedness measures.

Contains systematic collection, documentation and analysis of data about losses caused by disasters associated with natural hazards.

Provides pubications, data, information and services related to natural distarets and disaster risk reduction.

Allows monitoring and forecasting meteorological, agricultural and hydrological drought at various temporal and spatial scales.

Contains a comprehensive repository of knowledge on resilience and disaster risk management.

Povides near real-time drought information based on multiple drought data sets for drought monitoring and prediction.

Serves as a knowledge hub of UNESCO to facilitate international scientific cooperation in the geosciences.

Aims to harmonize global earth evolution data and share global geoscience knowledge.

Provides full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data for understanding and protecting our planet.

Provides access to Pan-European and national geological datasets and services from the Geological Survey Organizations of Europe.

Allows users to search for cross sections, charts, tables, figures, and data from GeoScienceWorld publications.

Enables access, usability and availability of trusted geoscience data, for the benefit of society.

Supports global ocean science and services to strengthen our knowledge and sustainable management of the ocean.

UNESCO International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange

Provides access to information on harmful algal events and biogeography of harmful algal species.

Delivers the essential information needed for our sustainable development, safety, wellbeing and prosperity.

Contains platforms and products measuring ocean acidification parameters around the world.

Provides a catalogue of existing ocean related web-based sources and systems of data and information.

Offers a range of spatial datasets regarding the conservation, management and restoration of marine and coastal biodiversity.

Contains a comprehensive collection of uniformly formatted, quality controlled, publicly available ocean profile data.

Cooperation programme of the UN system dedicated to water research and management, and related education and capacity development.

Dedicated to understanding the state, use and management of the world’s freshwater resources and designing better water policies.

Presents the intrinsic vulnerability of groundwater systems to natural disaster.

Contains a database of country statistics, focused on water resources, water uses and agricultural water management.

Promotes international collaboration and sharing of knolwdge on management of water resources in arid lands.

Provides scientifically-sound data and information on the state and trend of global inland water quality.

Allows access to and sharing of geospatial hydrological data by multistakeholder end-users.

Enables access to a range of hydrometeorological data and services.