Google and NASA are pushing projects to grant the world the ability to monitor both the carbon dioxide pollution and the levels of forest destruction, both which contribute to global warming.
The companies say the answer to screening countries’ compliance of new green house gas emissions agreements is to do it from space.
The project would give NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which was destroyed during a failed launch last February, a second chance. The Observatory would be able to see where carbon dioxide was being spewed.
Google is bringing Earth Engine to the table—a new program which is basically a massive storehouse for satellite and other data that forest countries will be able to access for free by the time of the next U.N. climate conference. The new system could help keep track of what forests are saved.
Stocks of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) were down $2.15, or .36 percent, to $595.61.
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