Big Data Services: Data and Analytics, Early Warning and Science Foresight for Action - Transforming the Lives of People, Places and Planet

The Big Data Initiative builds Environmental Strategic Foresight and insights for policy through analysis of data, mapping trends, creating scenarios and identifying emerging issues on a permanent basis, at the frontier of environmental knowledge. Foresight provides a systemic process, to highlight a hotspot of environmental change, to feature an emerging science topic or provide early warning for identifying the future environmental trends. The Big Data revolution for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals can only be realized by Big Science.