🌳🌲 Rethinking counterfactual analysis for forest carbon baselines. Combining geospatial foundation models with causal inference. Research-led, science-first. 🌍🔬
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The global carbon system has been running on unpaid labour.
Chloé Naomi Swickard on permanence, the ICVCM Permanence Trust, and why solving permanence alone won't finance nature at scale.
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New paper in Current Biology: liana cutting accelerated canopy recovery in logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. From 24 years of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, Sabah, Borneo.
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This seems not tooo shabby.
We are supporting the ML4EO conference 2026 @exeter.ac.uk We wrote about the conference what Machine Learning for earth observation gets wrong and why it matters for carbon baselines.
Why Pixels Aren't Enough for Carbon Market Integrity. belian.earth/news/ml4eo-2...
Climate Hub Davos. "How you interpret data is crucial to interpreting risk."
Everyone's building data products. Few are building the interpretation layer - Geospatial foundation models + causal inference + counterfactual baselines, not just maps.
Blog: belian.earth/news/davos-w...
Everyone's arguing about precision of biomass maps. Nobody wants to talk about baseline uncertainty. The spread between a good baseline and a bad one dwarfs any two biomass products. We wrote about why we need a shift toward rigorous counterfactuals
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We've been awarded @esa.int funding for "Conservation Integrity: Geo-AI powered transparency 4 Nature-Based Solutions" 🛰️🌳
Its a difficult question in #forestconservation: what would have happened without intervention?
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#Carbon #RemoteSensing #GeoAI @science.esa.int
Automated #SQL formatting within #rstats files has just been added to the `duckdb-r-editor` #positron extension. github.com/belian-earth... ✌️
If you use #positron #rstats and #duckdb I'd love to know what you think of this:
`duckdb-r-editor` a Positron extension for duckdb SQL code highlighting and completion within R files.
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Seven women. Seven careers. Seven pieces of advice.
For #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience we’re celebrating the voices and wisdom of women shaping science and technology across Europe. #IDWGS #WomenInSTEM
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On permanence in Nature-Based Solutions: the ICVCM Permanence Trust, Article 6.4 PACM, and why solving permanence alone will not finance nature at scale.
Liana cutting accelerates tropical forest recovery 3x faster than tree planting. What this means for forest carbon baselines and Verra's new methodologies.
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Carbon baseline uncertainty dwarfs biomass map quality in forest projects. Learn why we need robust counterfactual solutions to solve the integrity crisis.
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belian.earth at WEF 2026: empty slopes, full conversations. Reflections on carbon markets, nature credits, and the Climate Hub Davos.
Still a WIP but I've been building a new #rstats 📦 for cloud optimised reads of #GEDI and IceSat-2 data. It's 20 x quicker than direct download and saves 10-100s of GiB on disk. The #rust powered hdf5 parser is crazy fast - with help from the 🤖.
belian-earth.github.io/spacelaser/ #rspatial #rextendr
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A vscode extension to create a rich in-line SQL editor experience - belian-earth/duckdb-r-editor
