I make maps 🗺️ of forests and peatlands using satellite data 🛰️, to bring carbon finance to protect them. Co-founder & Chief Scientist @SpaceIntell.
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Delighted to be able to announce that we at @SpaceIntell are providing @ICE_Markets the detailed, high quality maps on forest, tree crops and agriculture cover to enable deforestation-free supply chains for EUDR. Important step to ending deforestation!
To support commercial trade compliance with the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) is pleased to announce a collaboration with @SpaceIntell on the launch of the ICE Commodity Traceability Service (ICE CoT): ir.theice.com/press/news-det…
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We have a new paper on NPP in Peruvian peatlands, just published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #PeatPaper #PeatTwitter @pashkito @KHRoucoux @SimonLLewis @EdMitchard @AdamHastie6 @kofitim @FCDraper
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"Before our kids used to sit on the dirt, but currently, when the kids go to and then return from school they are very clean.
As clean as a marble.
These are some of the advantages of protecting forests" 🌳
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Remember the @guardian claiming #rainforest @VerraStandards #carbon credits are worthless? Read our eLetter response to the original @ScienceMagazine article
science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
@hughagraham @AndyC_UoE @BurslemDavidFRP @lsanzcruz @EdMitchard
#COP28 1/13
Absolutely incredible, 110 km in a day, and after weeks of running 60k more days than not.
And in over 30 degrees heat and beating sunshine too!
#ProjectAfrica Day 241: 110km
Total raised for charity so far: £109,721
Decent shift out there today. Longest run of the mission by some distance. Longer days are yet to come. Intent on pushing physical limits further than anything I would've previously considered possible of myself during this home stretch. Let's see what happens
Carbon payments can make local and global interests align.
Without carbon payments, cattle are more profitable than reforestation. Climate change accelerates if farmer makes the rational economic decision.
With carbon payments, reforestation can be the rational local option.
Nice look at the profitability of tropical reforestation. tldr; timber is rarely profitable, esp vs cattle. But add carbon payments, and reforestation can even outperform cattle. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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If direct air removal costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (~4x US military spending).
It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be carbon-free).
thebulletin.org/2023/12/dire…
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A new analysis by @SpaceIntell's Chief Scientist, @EdMitchard, and others, finds that the West et al. 2023 study on REDD+ projects contains serious flaws and unfairly discredits the impact of forest carbon projects. Read the paper and press release: bit.ly/48bRcNT
#REDD
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I know we've already had halloween but this chart is 😱
carbonbrief.org/revealed-how…
I'm speaking at the @ICE_Markets and @MakeUK_ 'Compensate and Abate' conference in London today. First session has @topnigel talking about the rift between business and environmentalists.
Not going to get to net zero without business being 100% engaged.
ice.com/events/compensate-an…
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1/n: With the onset of active cool-season weather across Canada in late Sept., the off-switch for the superlative 2023 fire-season has been finally been thrown. The season started early, ended late, and exceeded the previous maximum by a factor of 4. #pyrocene #canadianwildfires
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Batten down your hatches tomorrow evening into Thursday morning. The forecast low pressure of 949mb is a gnats cock above the lowest air pressure recorded in London in the last 200 years at 948.7Mb in 1821 at Greenwich observatory. It’s going to be windy folks… #StormCiarán
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There are many ways to get across the point of distortion in the Mercator map. Here's a planisphere indicating a distance across Africa and another distance across Russia and things don't add up
[source, read more: buff.ly/3HGVLme]
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My usual deep-dive on @IEA #WEO23
📉Global CO2 cld peak *AS SOON AS THIS YR*
⛰️Global fossil fuel use peak in 2025
🇨🇳China fossil fuel use peak in 2024 (!)
🌄Solar outlook for 2050 up 69% vs last yr (!)
🌡️Warming 2.4C (🔽 2.6C 2021 ⏬ 3.5C 2015)
carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo…
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My full response to Sunak & critics of HS2 who trashed Britain’s future 🧵
You would think, from Sunak & the media, that HS2 was dead & deserved its fate. But as HS2’s main architect back in 2009/10 I only wish Labour had stayed stayed in office long enough to see it through 1/
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MEGA FACTCHECK
EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing
But EVs still face relentless hostile media coverage
So, I spent the past few months debunking 21 (!) of the most common EV myths
Here it is 🧵
carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21…
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I have written an article about the expert knowledge of people living in the peatlands rainforest of the Congo Basin, based on my research there last summer. They are our allies in tropical forest protection. rainforestfoundationuk.org/g… @RFUK @RGS_IBG @CongoPeat @UCLgeography
