Environment

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    The view from the Cuipo Tree: Rethinking Biodiversity Beyond Protected Areas

    The view from the Cuipo Tree: Rethinking Biodiversity Beyond Protected Areas

    Biodiversity Biodiversity is often discussed in abstract terms, percentages protected, species at risk, and hectares conserved. Ecological networks operated at vast and local spatial scales. It lives at the intersection of forests and farms, rivers and roads, protected areas and working landscapes. Geospatial intelligence allows us to see these intersections clearly: to understand where species

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    Teaching Conservation at the Heart of the Coral Triangle

    Teaching Conservation at the Heart of the Coral Triangle

    This past summer, I returned to a remote corner of Indonesia, the Wakatobi Marine National Park. The National Park sits at the epicentre of the Coral Triangle, home to the highest marine biodiversity on Earth. However, this time, I wasn’t there as a researcher or on holiday. Instead, I was teaching the next generation of…

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    Monitoring the disappearing underwater forest

    Monitoring the disappearing underwater forest

    What if one of the most critical ecosystems in our oceans was vanishing before our eyes without us even noticing? 95% of Tasmania’s kelp forests have vanished. Along Australia’s southern coastline, Giant Kelp forests, known for their towering underwater canopies and vital role in marine biodiversity, are quietly disappearing. NGIS is proud to be part

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    Launching a Sustainable Coffee Future

    Launching a Sustainable Coffee Future

    During Climate Week 2024, a groundbreaking initiative was announced, uniting key global players to transform the coffee supply chain. The UNIDO Solutions Platform is a digital tool that helps coffee producers gain important insights into their supply chains. By using artificial intelligence (AI), the platform enables producers to understand the environmental impacts of their operations…

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    NGIS and ofi partner to build carbon monitoring tool to protect forests

    NGIS and ofi partner to build carbon monitoring tool to protect forests

    NGIS, Google’s 2022 Sustainability Partner of the Year, has collaborated with Olam Food Ingredients (ofi), a leading food ingredient company heavily invested in sustainability, to create a carbon monitoring tool. The tool measures carbon gains and losses across ofi’s supply chain. It uses satellite imagery and machine learning to track changes in forest cover and

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    SADA and NGIS join forces to accelerate adoption of Google Earth Engine

    SADA and NGIS join forces to accelerate adoption of Google Earth Engine

    NGIS has formed a strategic partnership with SADA, a leading business and technology consultancy and award-winning Google Cloud partner, to accelerate the adoption of Google Earth Engine technology. This collaboration establishes a powerful alliance that leverages Google Cloud Products and Google Earth Engine for sustainability analysis, and reporting to the North American Enterprise Market. The

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    What is the European Union Deforestation Regulation?

    What is the European Union Deforestation Regulation?

    The European Union Deforestation Regulation is one of the most significant initiatives that has ever been established for sustainable sourcing of raw materials. The EUDR is a law that restricts operators from placing products on or exported from the European Union (EU) market that are linked with deforestation or forest degradation. The key driver behind

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    What is greenwashing and how to avoid it for your business

    What is greenwashing and how to avoid it for your business

    Greenwashing is a marketing tactic used by companies to make their products or services appear more environmentally friendly than they actually are. It involves making false or exaggerated claims about the environmental benefits of a product or service in order to appeal to consumers who are concerned about the environment. Greenwashing can take many forms,

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    The Future is Now: Next Generation Geo Enterprise Solutions in Sustainability

    The Future is Now: Next Generation Geo Enterprise Solutions in Sustainability

    On Tuesday, November 15th, NGIS partnered with Google and held an exclusive launch of sustainability solutions using Google Earth Engine at Google’s office in Sydney. The event focused on real life environmental, agriculture and climate risk  applications where Google Earth Engine is used.  Speakers at the event included Nathan Eaton from NGIS and Ian McPherson

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    A National Digital Environmental Health Decision Support Platform

    A National Digital Environmental Health Decision Support Platform

    By 2030, the direct damage of costs to health is expected to be between $3-6 billion per year, due to rising temperatures, extreme weather and increasing carbon dioxide levels. In turn, these have an impact on heat-related illness and death,cardiovascular failure, injuries, vector-borne and water-borne diseases, asthma, cardiovascular disease, respiratory allergies, and mental health.  

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