According to the International Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Service (IGS), WANG Ningbo was elected as the vice-chair during the chair / vice chair election of its Real-Time Working Group (RT-WG) held in December 2022.

Prof. Guo Huadong from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Director General of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), was appointed among those ISC Fellows. The Fellowship is the highest honor awarded by ISC to those championing science in and for society.

On 21 November 2022, Prof. Huadong Guo, Director of the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) under the auspices of UNESCO, and Dr. Teresa Patricio, President of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) online to shape a long-term strategic partnership for the protection and preservation of World Cultural Heritage sites internationally.

Date: Friday 18 November 2022 Time:14:00 – 16:10 Zoom ID: 961 533 0234 Code: 218096 Host: Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Working language: English.

The International Symposium on the Protection and Restoration of Wetland Ecosystem Functions in Cold Regions was held both online and offline on November 10, 2022,bringing some 200 participants from six international organizations and five countries such as USA, Russia, Britain and China.

On November 1, the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), together with UN-Habitat and the Administrative Center for China抯 Agenda 21 (ACCA21), organized an online seminar with the theme 揑nternational Cooperation on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals? as a side event to the 2022 World Cities Day Global Observance and 2nd SDG Cities Global Conference. Prof. Guo Huadong, the Director General of CBAS, and Dr. Robert Ndugwa, the Chief of Data and Analytics Section at UN-Habitat, signed and exchanged Letter of Intent for collaboration under the CBAS Global SDG Partnership framework.