Earthwatch
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A global environmental monitoring system was built and paid for by one country, then presented as a shared international effort.
Who they are
The United States, UNEP, and Earthwatch.
What they do
Earthwatch is a UNEP program for scientific monitoring and assessment.
How it works
The United States supported Earthwatch through several programs: the Global Resource Database (GRID), the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS Air and Water), and the environmental information retrieval system (INFOTERRA). A UN System-wide Earthwatch Coordination office asked Wallen to report on how these systems related and could work together better. Earthwatch is a component of GEMS, but this does not mean Earthwatch directs GEMS operations or funds or governs it.
Why it matters
It shows how one country's participation can keep a global monitoring system running, while the system is described as international.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "‘ The United States also continued its support for UNEP's scientific monitoring and assessment, Earthwatch , through participation in several of its programs, in particular, the Global Resource Database (GRID), the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS Air and Water) and the environmental information retrieval system (INFOTERRA) ‘" Cross-sourced to en.wikipedia.org, yabaha.net — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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