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Global Green Carbon Participates in Google Forest Monitoring Tool Development - Smartphone App Uses Technology to Help Combat Deforestation

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Washington, D.C. – July 11th, 2011 – Global Green Carbon Corporation (“Global Green Carbon”, “GGC” or the “Company”) announced today Director of Carbon Forestry Edward Mitchard participated in a limited invitee collaboration called the “Community Forest Monitoring Working Group” in Washington D.C. held by Google.org, Google’s charitable arm.

Google.org summoned the group to collaborate on developing a simple software package using Open Data Kit (ODK), an open source suite of software tools. The goal is to create a smartphone app that could be used by community members to monitor forestry projects. The hope for this application is that it could greatly reduce the costs and improve the accuracy of monitoring community oriented carbon forestry projects such as REDD+.

Mr. Mitchard was asked to participate based on his expertise in satellite data and work integrating ground measurements with satellite images.

"This workshop represents a fantastic opportunity for a wide range of groups involved in projects that aim to reduce tropical deforestation and degradation to work together to produce an effective community monitoring solution. We at Global Green Carbon believe that projects will only be effective if monitoring is accurate and timely, and community-level monitoring is a key component of this. We are considering using the Open Data Kit in monitoring our projects, and are delighted to have this opportunity to assist in its development and integration with other monitoring methodologies,'” stated Ed Mitchard, Director of Carbon Forestry, GGC.

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Global Green Carbon Corporation (GGC) is a world-wide project developer of carbon financed AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use) initiatives. Global Green Carbon’s unique integrated land management strategy not only addresses one of the primary causes of global warming, but also rehabilitates degraded ecosystems, conserves bio-diversity, regenerates dwindling water resources and provides employment for marginalized communities.  For more information, visit www.globalgreencarbon.com.

Google.org uses Google’s strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges. Google.org focuses its efforts on activities that are uniquely suited to Google’s engineering teams, global infrastructure and user-driven approach, taking advantage of our ability to innovate and scale. Our products and projects include Google Flu Trends, Google Powermeter, RE<C, Google Earth Engine and Google Crisis Response.

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