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The 13 October updates from TNFD, SBTN and the Nature Positive Initiative help REDD+ make its case, and do nothing to pay for forest protection.
Verra has vetted belian.earth as a Data Service Provider for VM0047, the methodology for tree planting projects. What that means for a developer, what we do differently, and what a view costs.
Permanence has been a sticking point for Nature-Based Solutions since the Kyoto debates. The ICVCM Permanence Trust may finally unlock long-term durability. Even then, the deeper question of how nature gets financed will remain.
Liana cutting accelerates the recovery of logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment shows why designed experiments matter for forest carbon baselines.
VM0047 locks the developer's matched reference areas at validation and keeps them fixed for the full crediting period. That single choice defines your ARR project's baseline for decades.
We're sponsoring ML4EO again this year. Here's why the machine learning for earth observation community matters for carbon markets, and what it still gets wrong about pixels.
The carbon market has an integrity problem. But while the industry obsesses over which biomass map to trust, the real uncertainty is in the carbon baseline.
WEF 2026 was my first 'real' WEF - less skiing and just a bit more nature than economics. It's good to see that nature is properly on the table at Davos.
belian.earth has been awarded funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) for our project 'Conservation Integrity: Geo-AI powered transparency for Nature-Based Solutions.'
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Every forest carbon project depends on a counterfactual baseline to demonstrate its impact. Whether avoiding deforestation or restoring degraded land, the underlying question is the same: what would have happened without the intervention?