Scientific Initiatives

With support from One Earth, Woodwell Climate Research Center is compiling a comprehensive assessment of carbon emissions from the permafrost region which will link to policy outcomes through a targeted release of results for the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26).

The first global-scale analysis of land areas requiring protection to solve the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, upholding and strengthening Indigenous land rights.

One Earth and Graphicacy in partnership with Google Earth Engine developed an interactive app that allows user to explore the Global Safety Net by country and region.

The 1.5ºC Climate Model offers a roadmap on how to stay below the threshold of 1.5ºC in global temperature rise, addressing the climate crisis through three pillars of action.

RESOLVE worked with a team of leading biodiversity scientists, world experts in conservation, and One Earth to produce Ecoregion Snapshots, a concise guide to the terrestrial ecoregions of the world, by distilling the essence of each technical description into highly readable one-page snapshots.

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.

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.

Executive Briefing of One Earth's breakthrough climate model, which shows how the world can stay below the dangerous threshold of 1.5°C in global temperature rise. Ten global regions each have a unique role to play in achieving net zero emissions by 2040.

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.

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.

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.

Trase is an open-access online platform that revolutionises supply chain transparency for key globally traded commodities.

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.

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.

Mapping forest biodiversity using a technique called airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy (LGIS) derived from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory Platform.

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.

A database of citations from scientific papers, white paper or other publications related to climate change, conservation, and other Sustainable Development Goals.

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.