The United Nations has partnered with Google to monitor the effects of human activity on global ecosystems using sophisticated online tools.
The goal of the partnership is to develop a platform to enable governments, NGOs and the public to pursue specific environment-related development goals with the user-friendly Google interface, UNEP said in a statement on July 16.
Eric Solheim, President of the United Nations Environment Program,
said:
We will only be able to solve the greatest environmental challenges of our time if we get the right data.
Solheim said:
UNEP is excited to partner with Google to make sure we have the most advanced tools to track progress, identify priority areas for our work, and bring us a step closer to a sustainable world.
The Partnership was launched during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Initially focusing on freshwater ecosystems including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.
These regions represent 0.01 per cent of the world's water but provide habitat for nearly 10 per cent of the world's known species and evidence suggests a rapid loss of freshwater biodiversity.
Google will periodically produce maps and geo-data on water-related ecosystems through the use of large parallel cloud computing technology.
Satellite images and statistics will be created to assess the extent of change in watercourses and can be freely accessed to ensure that States have the opportunity to track changes and prevent ecosystem loss and vice versa.
In the long run, the Partnership hopes to establish an open source data platform and analyze the United Nations sustainable development goals.
Moore said:
We are excited to enable all countries to have equal access to the latest technologies and information to support global action on climate and sustainable development.
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