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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the largest private funder of Amazon rainforest conservation, is playing an unheralded but integral role in the development of the Earth Engine platform, a system that combines the computing power of Google with advanced monitoring and analysis technologies developed by leading environmental scientists. The platform, which was officially unveiled at climate talks in Copenhagen, promises to enable near real-time monitoring of the world’s forests and carbon at high resolution at selected sites before COP-16 in Mexico.

The Earth Engine builds upon decades of research by scientists at a range of institutions, including NASA, the Woods Hole Research Center, Brazil’s Imazon, and the Carnegie Institute. While it is so far only available for the Amazon and the Andes region in South America, the model is highly scalable and could eventually be applied virtually anywhere on Earth, enabling three-dimensional mapping of ecosystems and rapid reporting of land cover change, including alerting of deforestation and incidence of fire. The tool could play a critical role in helping countries win compensation under REDD, a mechanism that rewards countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. REDD is seen by many as perhaps the best way to generate funds for protection and sustainable use of forests.

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A scheme — known as REDD — provides financial incentives to rainforest nations for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.