Mobilizing Impact How GFW Drives Innovation and Collaboration to Combat Deforestation.pptx

More information: https://www.wri.org/events/2024/8/mobilizing-impact-how-gfw-drives-innovation-and-collaboration-combat-deforestation

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2. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

3. SPEAKERS Liz Goldman Senior GIS Research Manager Global Forest Watch Willie Shubert Vice President of Programs & Executive Editor Mongabay   Isabela Barriga Community Engagement Manager Global Forest Watch MODERATOR Rémi d'Annunzio Science and Data Lead, Forest Data Partnership; Forest Officer, FAO    Fred Stolle Deputy Director WRI Forests Program

4. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

5. Tree cover loss release, 2015

6. Tree cover loss release, 2018

7. Tree cover loss release, 2019

8. Tree cover loss release, 2021

9. Tree cover loss release, 2021

10. Tree cover loss release, 2023

11. 09 10 YAERS OF IMPACT

12. 12 2014 2016 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2015 2017 Annual tree cover loss data released GLAD alerts Radar alerts Global carbon flux model Drivers of forest loss Tropical primary forest Global Forest Review Targets Tracker Natural Lands Map Universal Mill List Global plantations map GFW Pro 10m tropical tree cover New York Declaration on Forests Glasgow Leader’s Declaration EUDR First ART-TREES credits Tropical Forests Forever Fund announced RSPO ban on deforestation First NYDF report (uses GFW) Leticia Pact 400 companies have D-free commitments 2025

13. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

14. Mongabay is a global non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting on the world’s most important ecosystems.

15. Leverage timely journalism to create cases where where deforestation is stopped before it had an irreversible impact on the environment.

16. We’re using near-real time satellite data and to identify areas with concerning levels of tree cover loss. 21

17. DEFORESTATION IS HARDER TO HIDE AND IGNORANCE IS NOT A VIABLE EXCUSE

18. 23 PHOTO: Ben Von Wong EARLY STAGE IMPACT : UNITED CACAO (PERU)

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20. On December 2, 2014 United Cacao launches an IPO and portrayed itself as a force for positive change in the industry to investors. They raised $10 million with the goal to be the largest sustainably run cacao company operating in Latin America. Unfortunately, this promise simply wasn’t true.

21. Satellite imagery showed the systematic dismantling of nearly 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of decades-old, closed-canopy rainforest.

22. United Cacao unravels In 2017 United Cacao’s CEO Dennis Melka and several other senior executives resigned. Soon after, the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market delisted United Cacao. In 2019, three staff of United Cacao’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Peru were sentences for illegal trafficking of timber forest products and obstruction. Their sentences ranged from four to eight years, while their Peruvian general manager was found responsible for civil reparations amounting to 15 million soles (about $4 million), to be paid with the company jointly. The satellite imagery reconstructing “the history in pictures of our forest” was used as evidence in the case, according to Julio Guzmán Mendoza, the state attorney for the Ministry of the Environment.

23. 28.9 million metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided Equivalent to 72B miles driven by passenger car 96K hectares (238K acres) of planned deforestation avoided Equivalent to 16x the size of Manhattan CLIMATE NATURE / BIODIVERSITY

24. Informed by this data, journalists are investigating the causes of recent deforestation in the field. 31

25. CURRENT STAGE IMPACT: MENNONITE EXPANSION IN LATIN AMERICA 32

26. 33 Deforestation Alerts: the near-real time path to impact

27. 34 Satellite data gives us a lead and location to provide assignments. People see satellite images. They feel stories.

28. 35 Reporters mobilized to examine and explain the deforestation through documentation, interview, and analysis.

29. 36 One story is small. Data puts it in context. Mongabay used GFW data to discover similar patterns in multiple locations.

30. Mennonite colonies halted in Suriname In December 2023, Mongabay revealed plans to develop the 535,000 hectares of rainforest, around 1% of the country’s forest cover. The projects would have been carried out by Mennonites, the Ministry of Agriculture and private entities. In June 2024, a court in Suriname approved an injunction filed on behalf of twelve Indigenous and maroon groups. After reviewing the injunction, the court said the government doesn’t have the right to grant land without free, prior and informed consent, a process in which developers meet with residents to explain how projects would impact daily life.

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33. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

34. Data Landscape Fragmentation

35. Unites organizations, governments and private sector partners around trusted, transparent geospatial data solutions that enable credible monitoring, verification and disclosure of progress in reducing deforestation and restoring degraded lands.

36. Monitoring deforestation in supply chains Towards a digital public infrastructure

37. Land Cover in supply, Land Use in demand EUDR definitions Further info : https://www.globalforestwatch.org/blog/data/monitoring-forest-degradation-eu-deforestation-regulation/

38. Convergence of evidence No single geospatial layer of information can prove compliance Convergence of evidence from multiple layers can support compliance claims National circumstances and datasets should be taken into account Robust, transparent and reproducible analysis requires public datasets and processes www.github.com/forestdatapartnership/whisp

39. Team Europe Initiative - Zero Deforestation Hub https://zerodeforestationhub.eu/projects/safe https://efi.int/partnerships/cocoa

40. Digital Public Infrastructure Prototype

41. Tree cover / Forest EU JRC DD GLAD / ESA / JAXA National land cover/use map Add: … Commodities Palm mask Cocoa mask National commodity map Add: … Disturbance before 2020 GLAD / TMF (change product) RADD alerts MODIS fires Add: … Disturbance after 2020 GLAD / TMF (change product) RADD alerts MODIS fires Add: … Tree cover in 2020 ? Commodity in 2020 ? Disturbance before ? Disturbance after ? Low risk More info needed High risk YES YES YES NO NO YES NO GEOSPATIAL DATA PREPARATION ZONAL STATISTICS RISK ASSESSMENT Plot of land geo-spatial analysis of all overlapping data within the plot output as CSV NO Deforestation risk assessment workflow

42. Critical use of national maps Land cover map 2020 released by Côte d’Ivoire Map added to the default WHISP layers

43. Open Foris Ground: first-mile access for smallholders https://ground.openforis.org

44. Integration of Whisp Operators & producers Louis Dreyfus Company Lavazza CEMOI EFICO UNILEVER CICC FODECC API available at https://whisp.openforis.org Traceability tools

45. More info at www.openforis.org/solutions/whisp

46. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

47. Thank you! Questions? Liz Goldman Senior GIS Research Manager Global Forest Watch Willie Shubert Vice President of Programs & Executive Editor Mongabay   Isabela Barriga Community Engagement Manager Global Forest Watch MODERATOR Rémi d'Annunzio Science and Data Lead, Forest Data Partnership; Forest Officer, FAO    Fred Stolle Deputy Director WRI Forests Program

48. AGENDA Welcome Monitoring Countries Deforestation Rates Monitoring Deforestation in Supply Chains Q&A Conclusion Photo: Planet

49. SPEAKERS Liz Goldman Senior GIS Research Manager Global Forest Watch Willie Shubert Vice President of Programs & Executive Editor Mongabay  Laura Vary Chief of Party USAID Forest Data Partnership MODERATOR Rémi d'Annunzio Science and Data Lead, Forest Data Partnership; Forest Officer, FAO