Question follow-through · 18535
Carbon Emissions: Agriculture and Land Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to use earth observation data to help support the (a) measurement, (b) monitoring and (c) setting of (i) agricultural, (ii) landfill and (iii) land use contributions t
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to use earth observation data to help support the (a) measurement, (b) monitoring and (c) setting of (i) agricultural, (ii) landfill and (iii) land use contributions t
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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6 Jan 2025
Answer published
Remote sensing technologies have increasing potential to provide cost-effective solutions for monitoring land use changes, gas leaks, and population density. Defra is examining the feasibility of employing Earth observation techniques for the monitoring a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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