Planting trees is good, planting trees with pinpoint accuracy on carbon is better, and the organization Ctrees has the numbers.
Planting trees is good, planting trees with pinpoint accuracy on carbon is better, and Ctrees has the numbers to help prevent bad actors from using trees as a greenwashing screen.A new organization called CTrees is launching a satellite-based carbon tracker that can measure the carbon in trees with pinpoint accuracy. By “trees” they don’t mean forests, or stands, or any other cluster of trees. They mean every single, individual tree on the entire planet.
As a non-profit organization, CTrees aims to provide a stakeholder-neutral, open source platform that holds those promises to a more down-to-earth accounting practices. “To date, poor carbon accounting practices have accelerated concerns around transparency and integrity,” CTrees noted in a press release last week, adding that “CTrees will also support, including investors, project developers, and regulators, who continue to grapple with questions over the true carbon emissions reduction potential of forest investments and how to accurately account for the carbon which is traded.
“CTrees’ consistent global dataset provides a nearly real-time picture of the carbon implications of forest conservation and restoration at the local, national, and global level, ensuring results from efforts to reach global climate targets can be accurately reported,” they emphasized.CTrees’s pedigree includes an R&D background spanning more than 20 years, spearheaded by the US team ofThe organization already has the national and jurisdictional forest data in hand.
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