Financing Forests: A Credible Approach towards Halting Tropical Deforestation

Wednesday seminar presentation on using carbon credits to finance tropical forest conservation.

Wednesday seminar on financing forests using carbon credits at the Cambridge Computer Lab. I presented our work at 4C on applying computer science and satellite sensing to tropical deforestation. The talk explored how technology could help create credible carbon credit markets by using satellite data to measure additionality and permanence, potentially providing financial mechanisms to help avert both the biodiversity and carbon crises.

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