29 days ago
Phys.org
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainGovernments are not using the latest mapping technology to report key environmental data about tropical forests to the UN, say researchers. Known as carbon-flux budgets, they are important metrics to mark progress towards climate change targets. To remove some of the burden on governments, space agencies and remote sensing scientists have developed specialist global forest maps. "Our study highlights many of the satellite-based global maps offered over the last decade are not used by sovereign nations monitoring and reporting forest carbon fluxes to the Climate Change Convention." More information: Joana Melo et al, Satellite-based global maps are rarely used in forest reference levels submitted to the UNFCCC, Environmental Research Letters (2023).
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