The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has partnered with Gordon & announced a $12 million grant from the Betty Moore Foundation. time.
With the goal of providing a single standard by which countries, companies, and landowners can easily and accurately estimate carbon stocks and changes in carbon stocks in every forest on the planet, GEO-TREES uses ground-level measurements of trees. is used. , soil carbon sampling, and ground and airborne laser scanning to collect real-time estimates of carbon stocks. All data will be freely available online and estimates can be used to calibrate satellite measurements and for practical evaluation of forest carbon sequestration services. The Moore Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund each contributed $12 million to the project.
“We’ve been measuring global temperatures since 1880. The warmest year on record was last year, and the 19 hottest years on record have all been in the past 19 years,” said STRI Director Joshua Tewksbury. Ta. “We have only had a taste of the rapidly approaching disruption of climate change, and every ton of carbon we take out of the atmosphere today helps reduce that disruption in the future. Growing trees is the only way to trap carbon at scale, and other methods of removing carbon are still too expensive, untested, or not yet scaled up, so growing trees is the only way to remove carbon at scale. Therefore, reliable methods to measure forest carbon are desperately needed.”
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