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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. In the forests of Indonesia, Permian Global has worked in collaboration with the Katingan Mentaya Project in order to protect more than 157,000 hectares of tropical forest peatland.

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Harnessing the power of tech on the path to net zero

Business Green

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Instead, businesses must set ambitious time-limited targets.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. billion people by 2050.

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Carbon pricing currently too low for a just transition to net-zero, says climate advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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What’s the difference between net-zero and carbon-neutral policies?

Renewable Energy World

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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And the winner of Copernicus Masters Planet’s Challenge is… NetCarbon!

Planet Pulse

The international competition Copernicus Masters awards the best Earth observation startups and developers that are trying to solve the world’s problems – social, environmental and commercial. Thanks to joint work with researchers, we identified the possibility to measure carbon sequestration in agriculture with satellite data.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $25M to Accelerate Satellite Technologies That Pinpoint Methane Emitters to Turbocharge Fight Against Climate Change

Planet Pulse

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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