Land & Carbon Lab

🌍 This #EarthDay, the world is rallying behind a big goal: tripling clean energy by 2030. This target is critical to the broader effort to mitigate climate change—and highlights the need for reliable information and coordinated action across systems. While Land & Carbon Lab doesn’t work directly on energy, our efforts complement this global push by focusing on another key piece of the climate equation. Expanding clean energy must go hand in hand with efforts to monitor and manage land-based emissions and removals—vital for understanding whether we’re making real progress toward our climate goals. At Land & Carbon Lab, we’re working to make these changes more visible and accessible through open data—so decision-makers can take more informed and effective action across landscapes, sectors and scales. 🔗 See how we’re making land-based emissions and removals more visible and accessible: https://lnkd.in/dhtfDeDi #EarthDay2025 #OurPowerOurPlanet #ClimateAction

💡 I am looking forward to speak at an important event this week, where I’ll have the pleasure of joining several World Resources Institute colleagues who will also contribute to various panels and workshops.      From April 24 to 26, WRI will be present at the ChangeNOW Conference in Paris, participating in discussions and hosting a booth to showcase our work on forests and land use through the Global Forest Watch and Land & Carbon Lab programs. 👉🏼 If you're attending, I’d love for you to join me on Thursday April 24 at 5:15 PM for my keynote and panel on Mobility & Transport: End of the Road for Fossil Fuels. Earlier that same day, Tom Pickerell of our Ocean Program will speak 1:00 PM on the 100% Alliance: Uniting Coastal Nations for a Sustainable Ocean Future, and at 2:45 PM, Craig Mills of the Land Carbon Lab will speak about Large-Scale Land Restoration.     On April 25 at 9:30 AM, Tom will return to moderate a session on Ocean Protection: Mobilizing the Private Sector, and later that day at 1:15 PM, Gabrielle Nussbaum will speak about Tech & Data for Real-World Impact.  See our program here: https://bit.ly/43Q0Erw    I look forward to meeting this incredible network and sharing WRI’s knowledge with new partners. For the overall conference program: https://bit.ly/3RfUQ35 👆🏼 Visit our booth in the Solutions Exhibit space (Biodiversity section).    #ChangeNow #WRI #Mobility #Ocean #GFW #Europe #ClimateAction

🛰️📊 Land & Carbon Lab will be in #Paris next week for ChangeNOW 2025 — bringing data and tools that help unlock smarter decisions on land use, restoration and climate action. 📍Visit our booth with Global Forest Watch in the Biodiversity section to explore how our open-source geospatial tools are driving solutions for climate and nature around the world — and get a glimpse of what’s coming next. ➡️ Catch Land & Carbon Lab’s Craig Mills speaking on Large Scale Land Restoration at 2:45 p.m. CEST, April 24 ➡️ And Land & Carbon Lab’s Gabrielle Nussbaum on Tech & Data for Real World Impact at 1:15 p.m. CEST, April 25 #ChangeNOW2025 #GeospatialData #LandRestoration

Our bags are packed for Paris next week 👜 We are participating in the Change Now Conference on April 24-25! Join us as our experts share insights on mobility, ocean equity, AI, and more. 🌍 📅 April 24: 1:00 PM: Tom Pickerell on the 100% Alliance: Uniting Coastal Nations for a Sustainable Ocean Future 2:45 PM: Craig Mills on Large-Scale Land Restoration 5:15 PM: Stientje van Veldhoven on Mobility & Transport: End of the Road for Fossil Fuels   📅 April 25: 9:30 AM: Tom Pickerell moderating a discussion on Ocean Protection: Mobilizing the Private Sector 1:15 PM: Gabrielle Nussbaum on Tech & Data for Real World Impact #ChangeNOW2025 #Mobility #Sustainability ChangeNOW WRI Ocean Global Forest Watch Land & Carbon Lab

Scaling restoration requires better carbon monitoring—and clearer guidance for practitioners. 🌱 Join experts from World Resources Institute, Land & Carbon Lab and others tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET for a webinar introducing updates to the Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide—including new carbon measurement methodologies for tree-based restoration with insights on how they can inform monitoring efforts in the field. ➡️ Register today: https://lnkd.in/dj7eGJac The guide complements geospatial tools and data from Land & Carbon Lab that already support restoration planning and monitoring at the local level—advancing more informed, effective climate and land-use decisions. 🌍

🛰️📊Restoration champions in Africa are putting geospatial data to work—strengthening efforts to track progress and sustain impact. Explore how open-source monitoring tools from Land & Carbon Lab are supporting their efforts: https://lnkd.in/dvzjwRmV

We appreciated the opportunity to connect with cocoa supply chain actors at the recent World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting (#WCFPM2025)! At our booth, we showcased innovative, open-source tools that support companies in measuring, managing and disclosing land-use change impacts across their supply chains. Visitors also got a sneak preview of Land & Carbon Lab’s newly operationalized land-use change emissions metrics and methodology—aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) and set to be released soon. We also demonstrated the Forest Data Partnership’s unique approach to land use mapping, which prioritizes collaboration and the convergence of multiple sources of evidence. We look forward to continuing these conversations and supporting actionable insights across the sector! Laura Vary, PhD Sofia Tenorio Fenton Ashleigh Zosel-Harper Rémi d'Annunzio #SustainableSupplyChains #OpenDataForImpact #LandUseMonitoring

❌Nature crime undermines global efforts to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. 🪵Yet these crimes – which include illegal forms of logging, mining, fishing, land grabbing and wildlife trafficking – also rob countries and communities of resources and revenue and threaten human rights, sustainable development, and national security. 👉WRI's newest report published in support of Nature Crime Alliance offers a comprehensive overview of how they work and what can be done. Find out more: go.wri.org/nature-crime-li #naturecrime #environmentalcrime #nature #logging #mining #illegalfishing #landgrabbing #wildlife #wildlifetrafficking #biodiversity #biodiversityloss #climate #climatechange #environment

💬 Last week, the first-ever Nature Tech Week brought together business leaders, environmental experts, and technologists at the Nature Tech Summit, co-hosted by Nature4Climate, Nature Tech Collective and CE Events & Media . The event underscored the transformative potential of technology in tackling our planet’s most pressing environmental challenges. Here are five powerful quotes we heard there: "The sum of all recycled products is not a circular economy. The sum of all electric drives is not a new mobility system. The sum of all organic farms is still not nature restored. Nature must be reinterpreted as critical infrastructure that deserves to be investable." — Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey, The Landbanking Group "We are laying down the foundations for a post-crisis economy where nature is collateral—like preparing for a Minsky moment in ecological terms." — Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey "Most nature tech is stuck in measurement mode. Information is useful but not transformational unless it enacts governance, incentives, and policy." — Craig Mills, Land & Carbon Lab, World Resources Institute "Forests planted in 2028 might not yield credits until 2033. Those who invest now will win. Those who wait will be too late." — Kristjan Lepik, Arbonics "Sustainability is moving out of corporate affairs and marketing and into the CFO’s office. The language that resonates now is financial risk." — Sebastian Leape, Natcap 🔗 Read more about this topic in our new article: https://lnkd.in/evSwFfdb #NatureTech #Innovation #ClimateAction #InvestWithNature #WithNature #NatureFinance

Most countries report land sector emissions through national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs), which only track human-caused fluxes based on each country's definition of “managed land.” But those definitions—and the data behind them—can vary widely. To strengthen transparency and improve comparability, Land & Carbon Lab and the European Commission Joint Research Centre translated Global Forest Watch’s carbon flux model into NGHGI reporting categories—providing a global, spatially explicit, satellite-based view of forest emissions and removals. The result? Aggregated GFW estimates align closely with NGHGIs: 📉 ~4 Gt CO₂/year in deforestation emissions 🌲 ~6–7 Gt CO₂/year in net forest removals …especially from 2010 onward. This agreement—despite different data sources and methods—builds confidence in both approaches and in the magnitude of the anthropogenic land sink, which is dominated by forests. And with NGHGIs serving as a key input to assessments under the Paris Agreement, this alignment is encouraging for their bottom-line message around emissions, removals and the net land sink. ➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/djNx5iP8 #CarbonAccounting #ForestMonitoring #ClimateTransparency