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Diego Saez Gil, Pachama & Sam Gill, Sylvera

Inevitable

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The Geospatial Test Isn't Going to Tell You Everything

When you're synthesizing a baseline, it's very important to look at which factors you're selecting. So for example, the project that we highlight on our blog has actually got deforestation all around it. But because the study basically selects an alternative like a synthesized baseline area, it shows up and the area that they select doesn't have a huge amount of deforestation. It makes it look like that project is massively overestimating the deforestation scenario. And so it's evidently highly threatened. I think what I'm trying to highlight is the fact that if you use these synthetic techniques, that actually can be very, very helpful in getting an understanding of the deforestation dynamics that are at play around the project

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