This is truly an attempt to leverage our national resources to improve international environmental understanding. The GOIN network is a result of the Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspectives. In April 1993 the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan initiated the United States-Japan Framework for a New Economic Partnership. More recently, the G-7 industrialized nations recommended adoption of environmental information initiatives like GOIN when they met in Brussels in February 1995. In addition to NOAA, participating U.S. agencies include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, Department of State, Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Reporters are welcome to attend.
A VIP demonstration will feature dignitaries in Washington and Tokyo exchanging statements and information at a jointly televised event. Md. Any reporter who wishes to cover this event should sign in at the guard's desk at the Silver Spring complex.