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Offsets, Integrity Reviews and the Limits of Tree Claims Carbon credit critique, satellite monitoring, reforestation science, and mycorrhizal markets—forest data and debate in focus this week.

This week in forest news 🌍🌲

🧾 Offset integrity under fire
🌳 Edinburgh plants 570K trees
🛰 DIST‑ALERT tracks loss in real time
🔥 Canada warns of drying forests
🧬 Degradation surges in Amazon

#forests #carbonmarkets #reforestation #climateaction #offsets

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BrewDog’s Exit, Malaysia’s Green Banks and Nigeria’s Tree Bet Restoration meets returns: from Nigeria’s forest economy to EU carbon math and Canada’s grants, this week in global forest finance.

This week in forest finance 🌱💰

🍻 BrewDog exits Kinrara
🇲🇾 Malaysia banks go green
🇳🇬 Nigeria bets on forest economy
🇨🇦 Bruce Trail lands $5.5M
🇪🇺 €40M for restoration R&D

#Scotland #reforestation #climatefinance #forests #Nigeria #Malaysia

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The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape A Canadian city brought new life to a damaged landscape—one tree, one polygon at a time—backed by openly available data.

🌲 10M trees. Open maps. pH-scarred land reborn.

Sudbury’s reforestation shows what transparency can grow. 🌍

#reforestation #opendata #climateaction #Sudbury #ecologicalrestoration

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Accounting for albedo in carbon market protocols - Nature Communications The paper analyzes the impact of omitting biophysical effects from carbon credits on climate mitigation. It shows that some Voluntary Carbon Market projects may result in net warming due to albedo while others enhance cooling.

I'm excited to share this work led by Lynn Riley investigating albedo impacts from afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation projects. We hope the findings will guide future projects in the fight against climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quiet Planting, AI Forest Tools and Fungal Carbon Credits From corporate greenhushing to AI forest tracking, fungal credits and tribal reforestation, this week we map where climate action takes root.

This week’s forest news 🌳🧬

🤫 Corporations go quiet on sustainability
🔥 Post-fire reforestation gets nuanced
🤖 AI meets forest MRV
🍄 Netflix bets on fungi
🌱 Reforesting in defiance

#carbonmarkets #reforestation #greenhushing #MRV #forests #AI #fungalcredits

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Ecosia’s Call, Kenya’s Bet and the Fight for Forest Funds From Mexico’s green cuts to Microsoft’s cement bet and stalled Indigenous funding, this week’s stories trace climate finance fault lines.

This week in forest finance 🌱💰

🌍 Ecosia opens fund to planters
🇧🇷 Brazil’s TFFF eyes $125B
🇰🇪 Kenya links trees to GDP
🇪🇺 Nordics push back on LULUCF
🌐 CDOP launches data fix

#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #naturebasedsolutions #REDDplus #climatefinance #forests

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Why Locally-led is the Key to Successful Land Restoration: Meet Herp Ghana In Ghana’s most densely populated human settlement, Amedzofe, lies a critically endangered species: The Togo Slippery Frog. Human activities, such as logging, are destroying its habitat. But hope is taking root. Led by Herp Ghana, a community is bent over the land, restoring what’s been lost- tree by tree, row by row, in a bid to reverse the drastic effects of these activities, and hopefully restore their ecosystem. ‘When the trees are preserved our water bodies will never get dried up, nature will thrive, and we will also have good water to drink.’ says one of the farmers. This is more than reforestation; it is a story of resilience, community, and the will to restore balance between people and planet. Watch how this small town is making a big difference. This video story is produced in collaboration with Vision in View Ltd, a creative firm in Ghana.

🎥 Restore Local posted a video

🏢 https://unjobs.org/organizations/wri

🏷️ https://unjobs.org/themes/reforestation

Can you elaborate re: fudging the data?

Fascinating!

Forest Carbon Standards, Isometric’s Launch and LiDAR Logic From new forest protocols to mapping tools and mixedwood data, this week’s updates reveal how carbon credibility gets built—and tested.

This week in forest news 🌍🛰

📏 Isometric tests forest carbon rules

🔥 BC fires dodge “protected” lands

🌴 Planet opens tropical data

🌲 Mixedwoods defy labels

🌐 CDOP standardizes carbon
#forestnews #carbonmarkets #forestdata #climatefinance #wildfire #MRV #forests

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UK Aid, Singapore Buys and the Debate Over Forest Offsets From UK offsets to REDD+ reform and Singapore’s carbon spree, this week’s forest finance roundup follows the money—and the questions.

This week in forest finance 🌲💸

🇬🇧 UK offsets dominate aid

🇧🇷 JREDD+ grows, questions follow

🇧🇩 SIDA funds mangroves

🍏 Apple’s redwood math

🇸🇬 Singapore buys big
#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #REDDplus #biodiversity #climatefinance #naturebasedsolutions #forests

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Apparently going have lots of reforestation (>100mt p.a) 😳

Sounds like a lot of forest!

They say planting trees is good for the soul. But what about planting trees in the middle of the snow with an occasional dose of freezing rain?

#treeplanter #trees #canadianreforestation #whitespruce

Renoster’s Pivot, ForestScan’s Map and Tropical Trade-Offs As Renoster launches Apollo and ForestScan sets new benchmarks, the path to credible carbon unfolds in this week's forest news.

Weekly forest news:
🌲 Renoster pivots from rating to removals with Apollo

🛰 ForestScan sets a new biomass benchmark

🌊 Blue carbon gains in the Maldives

📑 Brazil’s Amazon states prep integrity playbook

#forestfinance #VCM #biomass #bluecarbon #Brazil #Maldives

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Blue Carbon Tools, Brazil’s Pitch and California’s Push From Brazil’s pasturelands to California’s wildfire plans, new funding models test how far restoration can go—and who it really serves.

🌍 This week in forest finance:
🇧🇷 $141B on Brazil’s restoration ledger

🌊 A cost tool for blue carbon investments

🌲 California’s $18B wildfire fund

💸 $250M for Chestnut Carbon

#forestfinance #Brazil #BlueCarbon #California #wildfire #carbonmarkets #NetZero

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We’ve collected our fair share of cones 🌲💪🐿️ …but here’s the real story: open data shows wild seed demand could jump 6x (0.3B → 2B!) to meet reforestation goals in the United States.

#OpenData #Reforestation #USA #Seeds #Cones #ConeCollection

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⚡️Mark your calendars for the

🌱IUFRO International Conference on Reforestation Under Drought
🗓️7-10 July 2026; 📍Independence, OR, USA

📑Abstract submission will be open through 30 November 2025!

🔗 www.westernforestry.org/events/iufro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #reforestation

Amazing effort, would be cool to see a map though!

GitHub - hyex-research/AquaFetch: A Unified Python Interface for Water Resource Data Acquisition A Unified Python Interface for Water Resource Data Acquisition - hyex-research/AquaFetch

We welcome a new project to OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #openscience github.com/hyex-researc...

Amazon Drought, Kalangala Agroforests and Carbon Confusion From carbon delays to cultural planting models, today’s forest fixes reveal a deeper tension between what’s counted and what actually counts.

Weekly forest news:

🌧️ Amazon’s drying trend, 75% tied to deforestation

🌾 Uganda’s agroforests replacing palm oil

📊 U.S. forests: growth, gaps & workforce bottlenecks

Behind the noise, what do the numbers say?

#VCM #Amazon #agroforestry #reforestation #forests

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Red Sea Deals, Mast’s Burial Credits and Netflix Forest Bets From burial credits to watershed bills, forest finance is evolving—linking land, carbon, and policy across sectors and geographies.

From burial credits to binge-watch forests, this week in forest finance:

🌊 Watershed bills in Washington

📺 Netflix’s 15-year carbon deal

🌴 $18.6B Red Sea “green” resort

#VCM #Amazon #Netflix #watersheds #reforestation #biomass #RedSea

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Apple’s Carbon Neutral Claims – What the Data Shows Why has a German court ruled that Apple Watch can’t be considered “carbon neutral”? Here’s an overview of Apple’s Restore Fund projects.

⚖️ German court weighs in on Apple’s “carbon neutral” claim.

At stake: how permanence, leases & forestry models shape credibility in carbon markets.

Carbon accounting is meeting courtroom scrutiny.

#Apple #NetZero #carbonmarkets #RestoreFund #forestry #VCM

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That’s not quite what the data shows…

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A…

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.

A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.

Mayan Maps, Missing Data and the Price of Planting Trees From Mayan jungle borders to global planting claims, new tools are exposing the cracks in reforestation data and the maps meant to guide it.

🛰️ 1.2M planting sites checked — 79% fail at least one integrity test.

🌍 Mayan jungle pact spans 14M acres.

🔥 Canada’s wildfire smoke now a health risk.

#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #reforestation #dataintegrity #MayanJungle #CanadaFires #NetZero #forests

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Assisted Migration, Nature Credits & Nigerian Farms The forest finance weekly: pilots in Liberia, credits in India, new funds in Brazil, and carbon bets in Nigeria.

📉 €65B EU biodiversity gap

🪵 $125B forest fund under pressure

💰 $70/tonne ARR premiums

🌍 7 countries testing forest finance futures

#VCM #Sweden #Nigeria #Liberia #EU #naturecredits #ARR

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Is Net Zero Set to Crush Indigenous Land Rights? A billion hectares for climate pledges by 2060. The catch? Much of that land belongs to Indigenous peoples with insecure rights.

Due diligence alert 🚨
New research shows Net Zero may hinge on land markets few investors truly understand.
Essential reading for carbon buyers, project developers & ESG teams.
#NetZero #carbonmarkets #ESG #landgovernance #carbonrisk #climatefinance #Africa #REDD

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Reforestation can contribute significantly to tackling climate change, but research found its global potential is only a fraction of what’s been claimed.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-cli...

Nurseries in Scotland Firestorms in the American West With Scotland scaling up biosecure seedling production and US forests facing collapse without major fire reform, the planting gap grows sharper.

Will wildfire strategies ever balance equity and efficiency? 🧭 What happens if tropical forests fail to keep pace with the heat? 🌴 #ClimateAdaptation #TropicalForests #WildfirePolicy

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We keep hearing these figures. But where’s the data? The maps, the species, the survival rates?