With climate change comes a massively increased risk to billions of people due to disasters, reduced food and energy security, environmental degradation, and sea level rise to name a few. For example, it is estimated that 200,000,000 people live in low-lying areas of the world considered highly vulnerable.

The global OGC community has mobilized to improve how well we connect land, sea, and air Geospatial data and information, improve regional connectivity between various  SDIS  at different maturity levels, and unlock the value of data previously hard to find  ( to name a few!) and ultimately make everything more FAIR.

Importantly, the community is focused on practical work to demonstrate "the how” for Disaster, Climate, Marine, Agriculture, Cities, and much more. This talk will provide examples of the Impact of the work of the OGC community.