United Nations using Google technology to fight climate change

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — New Google-powered software will help the world tackle problems related to climate change, deforestation and food production, a United Nations agency said on Friday, as it presented its revamped online platform.
Open Foris, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) software, uses high-resolution satellite images to monitor the environment and changes in land use and forest cover.
“We make maps that used to take three years in a week,”