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CTrees is headed to New York Climate Week, and we hope to see you there!🌎 With Brazil hosting COP30 in #Belém next year, global attention is turning towards the important role of #forests in addressing climate change and the urgent need to finance their protection. Join us on Tuesday, September 24, for an in-person panel discussion focused on action needed to ensure that jurisdictional carbon finance is a cornerstone of climate action. Policy leaders and scientific experts on this year's panel include: Carlos A. Nobre, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, USP - Universidade de São Paulo; Co-Chair, Science Panel for the Amazon Sassan Saatchi, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech; co-founder and CEO, CTrees Frances Seymour, U.S. Science Envoy, Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State Mary Grady, Executive Director, Architecture for REDD Transactions (ART)(to be confirmed) Professor Lee White CBE, Ph.D., Special Envoy, Science Panel for the Congo Basin (moderator) Spots are limited and advanced registration is required. Register today: https://lu.ma/2aqhk9kd

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at our #ClimateWeekNYC fireside chat, “A Photographic Journey Through Forestry Carbon Projects” last week! seeing the real impact #CarbonDoneCorrectly can have on the planet and its people left us feeling inspired, motivated, and ready keep taking real #climateaction. A special shout out to our panel, including our own Dee MacLeod Lawrence and Jodi Manning, as well as CTrees' Sassan Saatchi and Bronson Griscom from Conservation International — your insight, stories, and real-world experience on the front lines of the fight against rising emissions truly made this event a memorable one.

At a CTrees event today in New York, Helder Barbalho, governor of Pará state in Brazil, shared details of a landmark $180 million deal for carbon credits that represent reduced emissions from deforestation in the state. The deal is the first such agreement for any state in Brazil. Following his remarks, Barbalho joined a panel discussion with distinguished speakers including Carlos A. Nobre, co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon; Frances Seymour, Senior Advisor for Forests with the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State; Christina Magerkurth, Managing Director, Architecture for REDD Transactions (ART); and Sassan Saatchi, co-founder and CEO, CTrees. Daniel Melling, CTrees' head of marketing, served as moderator. The discussion focused on the role of jurisdictional finance in addressing tropical deforestation and forest degradation, which are major sources of global greenhouse gas emissions. With Pará hosting COP30 in Brazil next year, the conversation addressed how science, policy, finance, and industry can support forest protection and ecosystem restoration across the tropics. Read a press release about the event from the state of Pará: https://lnkd.in/g-uZ_qUW See coverage of the deal in Reuters: https://lnkd.in/eCkAsugH Through the Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force, CTrees is working with Pará and other member states on access to advanced remote-sensing data to support efforts to reduce deforestation and restore ecosystems. Photos by Raymond Song

Among the speakers at our #ClimateWeekNYC panel next week, Carlos A. Nobre, Ph.D. is a senior scientist at the USP - Universidade de São Paulo and co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon. A Nobel laureate and one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, Nobre is known for his work on biosphere-atmosphere interactions and climate-ecological impacts of Amazon deforestation and global warming. Throughout his career, he has played a key role in implementing scientific experiments across the Amazon and communicating the science of climate change. We look forward to the insight and expertise that he will bring to the discussion. 🔗 Please register by this Friday to hear from Nobre and other distinguished panelists at our event on Tuesday, September 24: https://lu.ma/2aqhk9kd

CTrees scientist Ricardo Dalagnol da Silva Dalagnol will speak at the GisForest conference tomorrow, sharing his latest research on mapping selective logging and road construction throughout the tropics. More details below ⬇️

#ClimateWeekNYC update!📢 We’re just two weeks out from our event, Road to Belém: Raising Ambition for Jurisdictional Forest Finance, and we’re excited to share that Christina Magerkurth, managing director at Architecture for REDD Transactions (ART), has joined our panel. A twenty-year veteran of carbon offset projects and standards, Christina oversees ART's efforts to establish a global quality benchmark for jurisdictional REDD and mobilize finance for forest protection🌳 🔗 Register today to join us and hear from Christina and other leading experts on September 24: https://lu.ma/2aqhk9kd

#LUCA IN ACTION: The government of Laos aims to restore 70% of the country’s forest cover by 2025, but the effects of shifting cultivation are making this goal hard to reach. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural practice in which plots of land are temporarily cultivated, abandoned, and left to regenerate during a fallow period. In the last three decades, shifting cultivation has become the leading cause of forest disturbance in Laos. Population growth and the recent construction of a railroad connecting Laos with China have further increased pressure on the country’s forests. Data from our Land Use Change Alerts (LUCA) platform reveals that the area of forest disturbance in the Luang Prabang province reached 72,756 total hectares, an area roughly the size of New York City, in the second quarter of 2023. This is the highest quarterly total for the province since LUCA data became available in 2018. With its biweekly alerts, LUCA shows where and when forest disturbance takes place in Luang Prabang and beyond. 🌎 Access and explore the LUCA platform: https://lnkd.in/gJQZC2Ka 🌾 Read more on the challenges of monitoring shifting cultivation in Laos: https://lnkd.in/eugVAMZv 🚄 Learn more about the impact of new train lines on forests in the region: https://lnkd.in/eHKnnBSU LUCA allows users to visualize and quantify alerts in any administrative area or custom boundary. Based on ESA Sentinel-1 radar data, and backed by a peer-reviewed scientific methodology, the platform provides biweekly forest land use change alerts for all forest biomes. Development of LUCA is led by CTrees research scientist Adugna Mullissa, Ph.D. 📝 Find further information on the methodology behind LUCA: https://lnkd.in/gWQMb_nP

CTrees is excited to share that Professor Lee White CBE has joined our board of directors. A forest ecologist and former minister in Gabon, White has over 40 years of experience in natural resource conservation and policy, focused primarily on Central Africa. In July 2024, White was appointed as special envoy to the Science Panel for the Congo Basin. He previously served as Minister of Water, Forests, Sea, and Environment for Gabon, director of Gabon’s National Parks Agency, and Central Africa regional director of Wildlife Conservation Society. White has also served as a member of CTrees’ scientific advisory board since 2022. “CTrees is undertaking urgent work to produce data at the resolution, frequency, and quality needed to help governments and organizations protect and restore forest ecosystems at scale,” said White. “I am honored to join the board and support the organization in its mission to bring best-in-class science to advance nature-based climate solutions.” 📰 Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/e4Q9VzXb

“We are at the brink of making significant changes — both in scientific innovation and in how the global community is thinking about and using data.” In a recent conversation with Climate TRACE, CTrees’ CEO and co-founder Sassan Saatchi discusses our innovative work to track global #emissions from the forestry and land use sector. A scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the past 30 years, Saatchi has dedicated his career to understanding the relationship between forests and the climate. With #forests covering roughly 30% of Earth’s land area and contributing nearly 80% of the carbon exchange between land and atmosphere, actions to protect and restore these ecosystems are critical to effectively mitigating climate change. 🌎 Climate TRACE is a coalition of NGOs that produces a groundbreaking open inventory of global greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2022, CTrees has provided all emissions data for the forestry and land use sector within the inventory. The joint effort provides companies and governments with science-based data for carbon tracking, reporting, and designing emissions-reduction strategies. 🔗 Learn more and read the full interview at: https://lnkd.in/gETd-hXx

CTrees was selected last year as a winner of the competitive Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant. Since then, the grant has supported our work to produce operational data for policymakers and decision makers around the world 🌎 Congratulations to our head of data & products, Aleena Ashary, for leading the way on this work! 👏 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ggHNvseC