Scientific Initiatives
One Earth is dedicated to supporting science, innovation, and technology that advances breakthrough solutions for a sustainable planet. We are helping to bring conservation and grassroots environmentalism into the 21st century through cutting-edge media and the latest in technological innovation.
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University of Technology Sydney: One Earth Climate Model
The One Earth Climate Model offers a roadmap on how to stay below the threshold of 1.5˚C in global temperature rise, addressing the climate crisis through three pillars of action.
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Digital Democracy: Indigenous-led Mapping and Monitoring Tools
Digital Democracy is launching Mapeo, a cutting-edge participatory mapping platform that helps indigenous communities protect their ancestral territories from illegal mining, environmental degradation, and other activities that threaten their way of life.
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World Future Council: Achieving 100% RE in Costa Rica
The goal of this one-year project is to provide complementary support to the national efforts towards decarbonization and a sustainable and low emissions energy system, with a focus on renewable energy.
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Climate Central: Mapping Global Threats from Sea Level Rise
Climate Central has developed a new digital elevation model, CoastalDEM, by using machine learning to correct errors in SRTM data, reducing the average global elevation error to about ten centimeters (four inches) or less.
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Cascadia Partner Forum: Regional Spatial Tool
Living on Google Earth, this open platform tool will help guide, coordinate, and dynamically monitor conservation efforts to help conserve biodiversity and healthy ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.
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Woods Hole Research Center: 3-D Carbon Mapping of the World's Forests
The Woods Hole Carbon Monitoring System is an innovative, satellite-based tool developed by scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center, that is poised to transform how the world measures and tracks changes in forest carbon.
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Global Canopy Programme: TRASE, a Big Data Dashboard for Supply Chain Tracking
Trase is an open-access online platform that revolutionises supply chain transparency for key globally traded commodities.
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Center for Global Discovery: Spectranomic Mapping of Biodiversity
Mapping forest biodiversity using a technique called airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy (LGIS) derived from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory Platform.
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Global Security Initiative: Predictive Science for Conservation Planning
Global Security Initiative (GSI) recently developed a data visualization tool that will help philanthropists, governments, and NGOs better prioritize conservation efforts around the world and envision plans for a world with 50% of its landscapes and seascapes protected.
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RESOLVE: Trailguard Ground Sensors for Advanced Conservation Monitoring
Announcing the release of a new potentially game-changing technology, TrailGuard AI. Built in collaboration with RESOLVE and Intel, TrailGuard AI takes advantage of advances in artificial intelligence to stop poachers before they kill.
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Climate Link: A Database of Citations
A database of citations from scientific papers, white paper or other publications related to climate change, conservation, and other Sustainable Development Goals.
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Dynamic Modeling of Ecosystem Based Pathways for 1.5C
This project will quantify the potential CO2 removal and evaluate other ecosystem benefits of the land-use scenarios from the One Earth model with improved spatial resolution, using the JULES dynamic global vegetation model and climate model output from a range of low-climate change scenarios.
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IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Task Force
The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Task Force on ‘Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures’ (OECMs) will undertake an assessment to map ‘potential OECMs’. The findings will be used to inform the last two years of the CBD’s current Strategic Plan (2011-2020) as well as to inform the development of the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework.