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United Nations Climate Change Conference and Satellites
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The EOPortal has an article about the United Nations Montreal's Climate Change Conference and remote sensing projects. From the article's introduction: "As the future of Earth’s forests moved up the agenda at the United Nations Climate Change Conference - negotiating a post-Kyoto strategy to combat global warming - ESA and its national collaborators presented delegates with promising results from projects using satellites to identify wide-area forest retreat and expansion."
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The role of Earth Observation satellites in combating climate change is being highlighted at the United Nations climate change conference where thousands of delegates from more than 180 countries are gathered in Bali, Indonesia to begin negotiations of an international emissions-cutting agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, whose first commitment period ends in 2012. See this e-news from the European Space Agency (ESA) : http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMS3HBL2AF_planet_0.html
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