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Today, at the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Google unveiled a deforestation monitor that could help combat climate change when used in conjunction with a proposed UN program.
If REDD is implemented, it would require member nations to monitor the state of their forests and land use. It would offer money in exchange for those nations preventing people from cutting down forests deemed significant to curbing emissions. The aim of the program is to essentially make the trees worth more alive than loggers could make from chopping them down or than farmers could make from converting forestland into farmland.