Chloris Newsletter: February Edition
Welcome to the February Newsletter!
Since our last update, we have made further progress and are close to releasing our new products and features in the coming weeks (stay tuned!).
For the new members of our community - welcome! You can learn more about Chloris in our whitepaper Introducing the Chloris Platform, and if you’d like to get more technical and discover how we validate our data, you can read about our validation results here: Validation of Chloris Geospatial Estimates.
In today’s newsletter:
Site of the month: Vida Manglar Carbon Project, Colombia
The Vida Manglar Carbon Project is a mangroves conservation project in Cispatá, Colombia. It is the first VCS-registered “blue carbon” project, approved by Verra in 2021.
The official project zone includes agricultural land, human settlements, and the actual mangrove areas (dark blue areas) in the Cispatá Bay.
The Chloris technology shows the biomass stock and change dynamics within the entire project zone since the year 2000, illustrated in the animation below. In sum, biomass stock has increased by over 10% since 2000, corresponding to a net sequestration of almost 400k tonnes of CO2e over the past 23 years.
And this is only part of the story, as protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is about much more than carbon removals. It directly supports ocean health, coastal resilience, biodiversity, and local communities. It is a critical solution for people and the planet.
See more projects “in action” with the free Chloris Platform showcase.
In case you missed it: 5 tests to assess the integrity of algorithmic carbon data
In case you missed it, an article by Chloris to help navigate remote-sensing technology solutions and challenge their usefulness for your specific use case. ?
By considering the following five questions, you can assess whether a specific technology is fit-for-purpose:
1. ? ?How does the technology calculate and report uncertainty?
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2. ? ?Are the estimates validated against robust, independent data?
3. ? ?Does the technology cover long time series?
4. ? ?Does the technology deliver consistent and spatially explicit results?
5. ? ?Is the technology scalable and cost-effective to use?
New report. The Cerrado: Production and Protection
Whitepaper by World Economic Forum in collaboration with Systemiq Ltd.
The new report Cerrado: Production and Protection, by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Systemiq, highlights the need to address sustainability challenges in the Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna.
The report finds that preserving or restoring standing forests in the Cerrado could contribute an estimated $2-3 billion to the biome’s GDP through global voluntary and compliance carbon markets – based on an investment estimated at $800 million.
Unlocking this opportunity needs fit-for-purpose data solutions. Many conventional carbon monitoring systems struggle to monitor carbon dynamics in savanna ecosystems like Cerrado. But not Chloris. We have already successfully deployed our technology at scale in the region.
Get in touch with us to learn more about the use cases of our data in the Cerrado, at project and jurisdictional scale.
Events: Chloris in London, San Francisco and Villars, Switzerland
If you're interested in scheduling a meeting or having a chat with the Chloris team, reach out to us directly or at: [email protected].
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