Protecting forests is critical, but meeting biodiversity, climate and sustainable development targets means preventing the loss of other valuable natural ecosystems as well.
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Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems
1. Beyond Forests:
How New Innovations in
Geospatial Monitoring Will
Help Protect All Ecosystems.
2. This session will be
live interpreted into
French, Spanish and
Portuguese.
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We develop breakthroughs in geospatial
monitoring of the world’s land and nature-
based carbon.
Our monitoring offer help address some of the world's most pressing
challenges:
• Protecting the world’s natural ecosystems
• Improving agriculture and food system sustainability
• Restoring degraded landscapes
• Reducing land sector greenhouse gas emissions.
They will provide unprecedented transparency about what is happening to
the world’s land anywhere on the planet, at any time.
6. To protect the world's
natural ecosystems,
we must be able to
monitor them.
7. Speakers
David Bekaert
OPERA Project
Manager
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory,
California Institute
of Technology
Matthew
Hansen
Professor
University of
Maryland Global
Land & Discovery
Laboratory
Sarah Carter
Research
Associate
Land & Carbon
Lab
Leticia
Kawanami
Sustainability
Director at Cargill
Agricultural
Supply Chain
Cargill
Leah Samberg
Lead Scientist
Accountability
Framework
initiative and
Rainforest
Alliance
Craig Beatty
Lead Scientist
Accountability
Framework
initiative and
Rainforest
Alliance
9. • Central to addressing climate
change
• Essential to conserve global
biodiversity
• Critical to people’s livelihoods and
well-being
• A contribution to evolving policy
needs, and voluntary reporting on
sustainability
Monitoring changes in
the world's vegetation
10. Growing number of
pledges & actions – all
require traceability and
transparency to
implement and report on.
It’s not a new
phenomenon!
Increasing attention on
sustainable supply chains
11. Emerging norms for legality, sustainability and
traceability.
A growing
number of
countries have
policies in place
to support green
soft commodity
value chains.
15. Curtis et al 2018 and Forest Loss | Global Forest Review (wri.org)
Drivers of tree
cover loss by
region 2001-2022
16. Image WRI: Natural Lands Map Provides Baseline for Companies’ No Conversion
Targets — Land & Carbon Lab (landcarbonlab.org)
Natural
Lands Map
17. Image WRI: Natural Lands Map Provides Baseline for Companies’ No Conversion
Targets — Land & Carbon Lab (landcarbonlab.org)
Global Grassland & Pasture Monitoring: first results
note: not all grasslands visible due to zoom
19. Near-real-time alerts in all vegetation types
‘Conversion alerts’ showing potential conversion of natural
vegetation to commodities
Functionality to allow users to identify alert hotspots in concerning
areas e.g protected areas and primary forests
New products for 2025
I’m going to present how this new data can be useful for stakeholders, and explain how LCL will derive information from the new alert data and provide this information along with tools to make it more actionable for a wide range of users.
Ultimately alerts can be very useful - knowing about changes to vegetation in all lands allows us to better address some of these issues which are critical in today’s world from threats to biodiversity and livelihoods, and the need to support ambitious new sustainability policies.
One of the main drivers, is in pledges related to traceability and transparency which are a requirement in many land covers, whether voluntary, or mandatory,, and in the last 10 years have become more and more numerous – all of these can be supported by new policies.
A growing number of countries have policies in place to support these green soft commodity value changes – notable forthcoming policies include EUDR, but there are others which are in preparation or are already in place.
Currently, near-real-time alert information in the tropics is already available on GFW and GFW Pro, which is a platform for operators to use when demonstrating compliance to various commitments, and is already used by many commodity producers and financial institutions. But the data only cover the tropics, or the pink region here, and only primary forests within this region
These primary forests are shown in green in this map, and this leaves many vegetated areas unmonitored, such as the green grasslands and orange croplands in this map.
Global land cover and land use change 2000-2020
P.V. Potapov, M.C. Hansen, A.H. Pickens, A. Hernandez-Serna, A. Tyukavina, S. Turubanova, V. Zalles, X. Li, A. Khan, F. Stolle, N. Harris, X.-P. Song, A. Baggett, I. Kommareddy, A. Komareddy (2022).
https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.856903
Since many more areas are now monitored by the alerts, there is an abundance of alerts, and order to make this useful to users, we can filter them to highlight those which are more interesting to users.
Where users are interested in drivers, we can provide information for example here, is a map showing the drivers of forest loss by region, allowing us to identify where agriculture is expanding into, in this case forests. This information is extremely helpful for developing interventions to address these driers, and for sustainable supply chain assessments.
Information on what type vegetation was disturbed is also useful, so that we can highlight where natural vegetation has been disturbed, and where action to protect these areas might be taken.
In addition to the data itself, on GFW for the current alert data, we provide tools, data summaries and the potential to subscribe to receive updates when there are alerts within the user’s area of interest. All these possibilities allow users to extract what they need from the data
This year, we will be working to develop new products as part of LCL including near-real-time alerts in all vegetation types…