ESPI at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025

23 - 27 June 2025 Vienna

From 23-27 June 2025, ESA hosted its tri-annual Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, Austria. This year’s iteration emphasised transitioning from ‘observation to climate action and sustainability for Earth’.

ESPI was thrilled to join this premier Earth Observation conference, boosting the policy impact of EO in climate action and beyond.

Our presence at the LPS included following engagements:

24 June 2025:

  • 14:00 – 15:30, 50 Years of ESA/100 year Roy Gibson, Session – Roy Gibson – The Golden Age of EO, session F.05.10, Hall G1 (H. Ludwig Moeller & Gabriele Redigonda). Read more here.
  • 14:30 – 14.45, Exploration and Space Transportation in the current geopolitical environment, Keynote at Austria Space Cooperation Day 2025 (Marco Aliberti)

25 June 2025:

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CEST, The Global Crisis and Earth Action, Plenary stage session, Plenary – Hall D (H. Ludwig Moeller). Read more here.
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CEST, Beyond monitoring – Unlocking climate action through Earth Observation, ESPI-ISPRS Session, Hall M1/M2 (Shadi Rochard, moderator & Gabriele Redigonda, keynote presenting The Vision Paper). Read more here.
  • 17:45 – 19:00 CEST, Space Applications at the Service of Food Security in the Mediterranean Region, Poster Session (Gabriele Redigonda, Shadi Rochard & James Francis)
  • 18:45 – 22:00 CEST, Commercial Earth Observation for Boosting Policy Impact, Evening Event at ESPI co-organised with ISPRS (Gabriele Redigonda, moderator), read more here.

26 June 2025:

  • 11.30 – 12.45 CEST, The Role of EO for Climate Resilience: A Focus on the Mediterranean Region, Oral Presentation, Room 1.31/1.32 (Gabriele Redigonda, Shadi Rochard & James Francis)

Find a selection of photos below of the ESPI team during the LPS across our various engagements:

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