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Destination Earth is a high precision digital model of the Earth. 

It is the EU’s flagship initiative to create a digital replica of our entire planet. "This replica is a Digital Twin in fact. It’s a gigantic task, that requires the world’s biggest computing to create the most precise data to tackle climate change.” That’s how Dr. Peter Bauer describes this 7 billion Euro project which he heads. 

It's part of the EU’s Green Deal to tackle climate change and it is meant to provide pinpoint evidence-based support to enable Member States to implement the green transformation.Destination Earth aims to provide the complex software and hardware environment needed for the next generation of very high-resolution prediction models. By 2030, a full digital replica of Earth and all its resources is expected to have been achieved. 

DestinE Actors: The EU Commissionleads in coordination with Member States and Associated Countries and with the European Space Agency, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

Peter Bauer talks  about:

- How Destination Earth can help the planet to heal - first digitally, then in reality

- How to improve our understanding of climate change and enable solutions at global, regional and local level

- How to predict where to live safely for the next five decades

- How to provide pinpoint evidence-based support to implement the Green Transformation

- What Destination Earth has in common with the Metaverse

- This immense multi-stakeholder approach 

- Obstacles and finances including the impact of the energy crisis

- The search for excellent talent