WE CAN’T FIX, WHAT WE CAN’T SEE. We can’t fix, what we can’t measure. We can’t fix, what we can’t map. But luckily now we can see it!
Ecosystem services certification seems to be on everyone’s lips. Perhaps as an indicator that we are finally transitioning towards appreciating the true value of forests. Where we for many years have only valued forests for their raw materials – the timber we could extract and sell – we are finally putting increased value to biodiversity, carbon sequestration, social safeguards.
This means that a rapidly growing number of companies and investors are ready to invest in ecosystem services to safeguard and rebuild. But how can we prove the impact of that investment on biodiversity, carbon, water, or wildlife? And how can we make it cost-effective and automated?
That is the focus of the newest episode of Forest for the Future, where I’ve invited four experts into the studio to help me learn, how we might utilize satellite imagery, cloud computing, AI, open data sets and blockchain to unlock the impact data for certified forest areas.
Luckily Scot McQueen, Forest Stewardship Council™ Senior Technology officer, Asger Strange Olesen, Chief Climate and Ecosystem Services Officer, Tara O'Shea, Senior director for Forest and Land use at Planet, and Will Moseley, Customer Success Manager focused on commercial forestry at Planet are patient people. They spend 50 minutes of their time making it all crystal learn to me. And hopefully with this podcast the potential becomes clear for you too!
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