Forest preservation and restoration / Sep 2021

I track external notes and media articles here on forest preservation and restoration as part of my work on Trusted Carbon Credits. Not complete, just a reading list.

• Can YOU Fix Climate Change? (great short summary of the overall issues)

Rewilding

• Affric Highlands initiative to rewild Scotland over 30 years
• Gabon's Climate Law
• Pairing agroforestry with livestock: the major benefits
• Major global companies to fund nature restoration projects in UK's national parks (via Palladium group)

Remote sensing

• Remote sensing of plant biodiversity
  • Geobon - global researcher network working on above.
• Earth-i - sub-1m sensing satellite constellation
• Mantle Labs - earth observation + machine learning for farmers
• Seagrass from space
• Keshav's comms technologies for energy informatics

Carbon Credits

• Notes on Carbon offsets for scientific societies
• Voluntary Carbon Markets integrity initiative
• Voluntary Carbon Markets Rocket in 2021, On Track to Break $1B for First Time

Biodiversity

• Biodiversity: Perspectives of a Techie - Dave Thau - Data and Technology Global Lead Scientist, WWF

Valuing climate change

• Cryptocarbon: The promises and pitfalls of forest protection on a blockchain
• Valuing climate damages at the country level - nature climate change, 2018
• Country-level social cost of carbon, nature climate change 2018