Science & Strategic Impact
One Earth supports science and policy initiatives that are instrumental to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. To date, our science program has provided funding and capacity to over 50 research organizations and academic institutions across three pillars of action -- energy transition, ecosystem conservation, and regenerative agriculture.
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Global Safety Net (OE) | Dynamic Modeling of Land Areas Essential for Biodiversity and Carbon Storage (GSNx)
The Global Safety Net -- a consortium with Resolve, ASU, UMN, One Earth, and Google Earth Engine -- informs efforts to protect, restore, and connect terrestrial ecosystems necessary for preserving biodiversity and stabilizing the Earth’s climate.
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Center for Global Discovery (ASU) | Global Spectranomics: Mapping Ecosystem Beta Diversity from Space
The Global Spectranomics project, led by ASU in partnership with Planet Labs, is developing satellite-mounted sensors to observe plant biodiversity from space and support a new era in data-driven conservation planning.
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Climate Finance Tracker (CFT)
Led by Vibrant Data Labs (VDL) and housed at One Earth, the CFT is the largest searchable, open-source visual database of how climate funding flows to organizations and companies on the ground.
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Community Genome Project
The Commodity Genome Project (CGP) is an open-source language for commodity markets housed at One Earth and led by Context Labs, the UNFCCC Climate Champions, and Xpansiv.
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Climate Safe Lending Network | The Carbon Bankroll: The Climate Impact and Untapped Power of Corporate Cash
A groundbreaking report shows the unintended consequences when companies park their cash holdings at major banks. The authors developed a new methodology enabling any company to calculate the carbon impact of its financial footprint and use its influence to accelerate decarbonization.
Global Landscapes Initiative (UMN) | Feeding 10 Billion People in a Climate Constrained World
This project will serve as a critical cornerstone for creating the Global Roadmap to feeding 10 billion people in a climate-constrained world.
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Quick Response Fund for Nature | Science Network for Conservation Opportunities in Crisis Landscapes
QRFN is a network of over 50 scientists and field experts identifying urgent land acquisition opportunities for the conservation of rare and endemic species.
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Global Rewilding Alliance | Animating the Carbon Cycle through Rewilding
This project will establish the technical potential of increased natural carbon sequestration through the reintroduction of keystone species in marine and land ecosystems.
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food | Incorporating Food Systems into Nationally Determined Contributions Under the Paris Climate Agreement
This project aims to develop an NDC assessment framework for food systems transformation based on the Global Alliance’s 7 calls to action and 7 principles and identify examples of good practices.
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Global Reporting Initiative | Updated Biodiversity Standard
With backing by One Earth and others, Global Reporting Initiative announced development of an updated and revised biodiversity standard for sustainability reporting.
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RESOLVE | Trailguard Ground Sensors for Advanced Conservation Monitoring
Announcing the release of a new potentially game-changing technology, TrailGuard AI. Built in collaboration with RESOLVE and Intel, TrailGuard AI takes advantage of advances in artificial intelligence to stop poachers before they kill.
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World Future Council & University Technology Sydney | Developing ‘Just Transition’ Energy Roadmaps for Climate-Vulnerable Nations
The goal of this one-year project is to provide complementary support to the national efforts towards decarbonization and a sustainable and low emissions energy system, with a focus on renewable energy.
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Cascadia Partner Forum | TerrAdapt Dynamic Conservation Planning Technology
This innovative technology helps to guide, coordinate, and dynamically monitor conservation efforts in a roughly changing world.
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The Nature Conservancy | Mapping Global Development Threats
This project's mission is to provide publicly available global data products and maps that highlight places vulnerable to development expansion and to guide more proactive and strategic planning to avoid and minimize negative impacts to people and nature.
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United Nations Development Programme | Mapping Essential Life Support Areas
This project brings together scientists and policy experts to harness spatial data to support decision-makers by identifying priority places to take action to deliver on national priorities for biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development.
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Digital Democracy | Indigenous-led Mapping and Monitoring Tools
Digital Democracy's Mapeo, a cutting-edge participatory mapping platform, helps Indigenous communities protect their ancestral territories from illegal mining, environmental degradation, and other activities that threaten their way of life.
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World Conservation Monitoring Center | Planet+ Infrastructure for Biodiversity Data
This next generation digital technology solution—or Planet+—will help decision-makers act on the global nature-climate-health crisis.
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Griffith University & Wild Heritage | Mapping of Temperate and Boreal Primary Forests
This project will produce a map of primary forest, including old growth and ecologically mature forest, for the USA (Coterminous USA plus Alaska) by land ownership, region, and forest type.
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RESOLVE | Restoring the World’s Intact Large Mammal Assemblages
New research, funded by One Earth, has revealed how the reintroduction of just 20 key species could boost biodiversity by restoring natural large mammal populations across swathes of the Earth.
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation | IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Task Force
The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Task Force will undertake an assessment to map ‘potential OECMs.’ The findings will be used to inform the development of the post-2020 Biodiversity Framework.
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Global Security Initiative (ASU) | Predictive Science for Conservation Planning
Global Security Initiative (GSI) recently developed a data visualization tool that will help philanthropists, governments, and NGOs better prioritize conservation efforts around the world and envision plans for a world with 50% of its landscapes and seascapes protected.
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University of Berkeley | CoolClimate Network
CoolClimate is a consortium of universities, businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations dedicated to the broad dissemination of climate solutions.
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RESOLVE | Descriptive Abstracts of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World
One Earth worked with RESOLVE, a team of leading biodiversity scientists, and world experts in conservation to produce Ecoregion Snapshots, a concise guide to the terrestrial ecoregions of the world, by distilling the essence of each technical description into highly readable one-page snapshots.
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Woodwell Climate Research Center | Arctic Permafrost Emissions Assessment
With support from One Earth, Woodwell Climate Research Center is compiling a comprehensive assessment of carbon emissions from the permafrost region which will link to policy outcomes through a targeted release of results for the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).
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Climate Central | Mapping Global Threats from Sea Level Rise
With support from One Earth, Climate Central has developed a new digital elevation model, CoastalDEM, by using machine learning to correct errors in SRTM data, reducing the average global elevation error to about ten centimeters (four inches) or less.
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RESOLVE | A Global Safety Net to Reverse Biodiversity Loss and Stabilize Earth’s Climate
With support from One Earth the research organization RESOLVE, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, and Globaïa, produced a peer reviewed analysis on critical ecosystems.
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Changefactor | Climate Link Database of Citations
A database of citations from scientific papers and publications relating to climate change, conservation, biodiversity, and other Sustainable Development Goals.
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Partnership for Policy Integrity | Assessing the Risks of Biomass as a Long Term Energy Source
This grant will support the writing and publication of two papers on the critical role of the land-use sector in addressing climate change and that critique policies and technological developments that incorporate burning forest biomass as a part of a zero-carbon solution.
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University of Melbourne | Limiting Warming to 1.5°C through Land-based Carbon Dioxide Removal within a Responsible Framework
This project aims to update and build on previously published pathways by including the AR6 carbon budget and climate sensitivity data, as well as applying ambitious policy assumptions for ecosystem-based restoration pathways in the land sector.
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University of Technology Sydney & German Aerospace Center | Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
One Earth funded an ambitious climate model that offers a roadmap on how to stay below the dangerous threshold of 1.5ºC in global temperature rise, addressing the climate crisis through three pillars of action.
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Carbon Tracker | 2020 Vision: Why You Should See the Fossil Fuel Peak Coming
A Carbon Tracker report, funded by One Earth, shows that trillions of dollars are at risk as energy transition disrupts entire sectors.
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University of Cambridge | A Global Map of GHG Emissions
This project updates the global GHG Sankey diagram and database to include 2015 data and reflect research developments that affect GHG emissions.
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University of Exeter & University of Melbourne | Dynamic Modeling of Ecosystem Based Pathways for 1.5°C
This project will quantify the potential CO2 removal and evaluate other ecosystem benefits of the land-use scenarios from the One Earth Climate Model with improved spatial resolution, using the JULES dynamic global vegetation model and climate model output from a range of low-climate change scenarios.
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ActionAid | Missing Pathways: The Role of the Land Sector in Ambitious Climate Action
This project supported advocacy around two key papers which focus on the potential of food systems and land to equitably and sustainably reduce emissions and contribute to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal, while feeding the world without using BECCS.
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University of Stanford | 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World
This 27-author paper provides roadmaps for 139 individual countries, representing more than 99% of world emissions, to transition their energy infrastructures to ones relying entirely on clean, renewable energy for all purposes.
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National Council for Science and the Environment | Earth’s Biodiversity Declaration
A leadership initiative, conceived by One Earth and the National Council for Science and the Environment, invites scientists from around the world to sign the Declaration calling for the protection of the integrity of the Earth’s biosphere and a dignified future for all human beings on Earth.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders | The Fibers Roadmap
SAFSF’s Fibers Roadmap lays out a seven-year vision for values-based investment and funding needed to support regenerative fiber agriculture and revitalize US-based textile processing and manufacturing.
