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Ecometrica presenting at Environmental Finance Conference
Ecometrica's lead remote sensing specialist, Dr Karin Viergever, will lead a session on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification at the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass and Sustainability conference The conference brings together top-level panellists and speakers from...
California Approves the First U.S. Cap and Trade Scheme
Late yesterday evening, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted nine to on…
Mapping of Agricultural Expansion for the Child Future Africa Orphanage Farm
We undertook pro bono work for the Child Future Africa Foundation to map recent agri…
Greenergy Launch BioCarbon Tracker
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CDP Releases 2010 Reports for Global 500 and S&P 500
On September 20, the opening day of Climate Week NY°C, the Carbon Disclosure Projec…
Climate Change Controversy in California: Effects of Prop 23 on AB 32 and Arguments in Support of AB 32 (Part II of II)
Several weeks ago, I posted a detailed overview of AB32 and Proposition 23 in antici…
UK’s Adaptation Sub-Committee Publishes it’s First National Assessment
The first report of the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Chang…
Climate Change Controversy in California: A Summary of California Climate Bill AB 32 and Ballot Proposition 23 (Part I of II)
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Biomass energy – reshaping its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem services, IIED/ESPA
A part of a consortium led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and funded by the Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation research programme (NERC/ESRC/DFID), we are embarking upon a piece of work aimed at poverty alleviation...
Report Your Emissions but Beware the ‘Reality Bomb’
Businesses across the world could have a massive ‘Reality Bomb’ to defuse in the yea…
Building REDD capacity in Malawi, Waterloo Foundation
We are contributing to a research project working on the development of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) projects in Malawi, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Mzuzu University, LTS International, the Plan Vivo...
Development of Ecosystem Planning Tools for Upstream Biofuels in Brazil
Working for a leading biofuels producer to assist in the development of effective processes and tools for monitoring land use change in areas under their stewardship and influence. This project involved the identification and mapping of ecosystems in and around...
Quantifying the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Terrestrial Ecosystem Management, NERC
Working with Imperial College London, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Forest Research, and Aberdeen University to investigate the mitigation potential from biofuels and bioenergy, avoided deforestation, and...
Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative, NORAD
The Norway International Climate and Forest Initiative has committed up to $500 million a year to support efforts that reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The real-time evaluation commissioned by the Evaluation...
Feasibility Assessment for a Coffee Agroforestry Carbon Project
Ecometrica conducted a feasibility assessment investigating the potential of developing small-holder forest carbon projects in around 37,500 hectares of land in coffee growing regions of Uganda. Proposed carbon projects would aim to encourage around 5,000 coffee...
Land-Cover Change Mapping of a Ghanaian Forest Reserve
Historical and current satellite images were used to provide a history of land cover changes in a forest reserve in Ghana since 1989 for a client investigating the investment potential under REDD. Since associated estimates in biomass change over time were needed, a...
Capacity Building For Mangrove Assessment Restoration And Valuation In East Africa
In collaboration with the Universities of Napier, Bangor and Edinburgh in the UK and the Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Ecometrica was involved in the training of three KMFRI employees from Kenya in Edinburgh, in mapping using remote sensing,...