Global forest products developed by Dr. Matt Hansen's Global Land Analysis and Discovery Laboratory are highlighted in the Global Stocktake undertaken by the Committee for Earth Observation Satellite (CEOS) - a forum for coordination across the international space agencies. The UNFCC Global Stocktake is a fundamental component of the Paris Agreement, being used to monitor its implementation and evaluate the collective progress made in achieving the agreed goals. At COP-26, Dr. Hansen will present these maps along with time series global land cover and land use change dynamics as prototypes for comprehensive global land monitoring.

Forests Global tree cover loss is generated annually by the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory as an operational product for the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Watch initiative. A new product, 5-year epochal global tree height maps, will be delivered in 2021 as part of the new Global Land and Carbon Watch, also in partnership with WRI. For COP-26, GLAD will present these maps along with time-series global land cover and land use change dynamics.