Tag: deforestation

UIG Collection Spotlight: PlanetObserver

.Reading time 8 minutes.

For more than three decades, UIG contributing partner PlanetObserver has been producing high-quality satellite imagery and geospatial data. PlanetObserver’s collection features satellite imagery of continents, countries with and without borders, major cities, prominent rivers, lakes, geologic places of interest, mountain ranges, and more.   Based in France, PlanetObserver specializes in the processing and production of high […]

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COP26 Progress – Reversing Deforestation

.Reading time 3 minutes.

COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference began on October 31 and will conclude on November 12.  An early, positive result from the Glasgow, Scotland conference is the promise from more than 100 world leaders to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.  This pledge includes the creation of a public-private fund of more than US $19 billion […]

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