Technology – The Google Street View started offering a feature that allows users to view and induced impact by climate change in places around the world. The giant initiative of searches marks the beginning of the 21th UN Climate Conference, cop21, held in Paris on Monday (30).
In the tool, you can find samples of ecosystems affected by warming global, ranging from glaciers in northern Canada to isolated communities in the Brazilian Amazon.
What is cop21
The cop21 is a conference that brings together heads of state to discuss weather phenomena that affect the entire world. The discussion up problems and point solutions, with the establishment of international targets and agreements to be followed by the nations represented in Paris as a way to combat global warming
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The particular purpose of the cop21 is to build a program of targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is a strategy to prevent the Earth’s average temperature rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius, compared to the pre-Industrial Revolution period. In the evaluation of scientists, this is a dangerous threshold for the balance of life
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The cop21 should last two weeks. With the confirmed presence of delegations from 147 countries, this is the largest gathering promoted by the UN outside the agency’s headquarters in New York. Brazil will be represented in the debate by President Rousseff
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How Google Street View can help
By exposing signs of the effects of changes climate on various ecosystems, the Google Street View opens a window for organizations presenting the situation of these environments
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The Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) and other foundations from around the world, received a Trekker, mapping backpack used by Google Street View to record pieces of Amazon forest are preserved, and add to the map isolated and rivers that are part of the Amazon basin communities. The intention is to generate content to demonstrate the importance of preserving tropical forests
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There are initiatives that bring a more direct campaign. An example is the work of Polar Bears International (PBI), protection group to polar bears, which has been mapping and registering with a Trekker the disappearance of glaciers in northern Canada, natural habitat of the bears.
In the United States, the Google Street View has been monitoring levels leakage of methane gas in large cities, which have large mesh pipes for fuel. Methane is considered one of the most harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
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How to view the information on Street View
To analyze the work of organizations around the world and check the impacts of global warming on the planet, just visit the Google Street View usually
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To view the related material to the actions around the world, you need to find points of interest, mapped with the aid of environmental protection institutions, such as the Amazon forest and parks in northern Canada. On the Street View for the Amazon, for example, it is explained that the material was collected with the help of FAS
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In addition to Canada and Brazil, there are places like the central California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Indianapolis. In each place, Google has partnered with organizations caring climate to pay attention to the specific needs of these sites
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Source: Google Maps and TechTudo
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