BRI’s Climate Change program director Tim Tear co-authored the report below, published through The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI). The Science Working Group of the SMI Nature-Based Solutions Taskforce published the paper which focuses on technical advances in assessing natural climate solutions for global carbon markets.
“This paper argues that recent advances in scientific understanding and technological developments have resulted in substantial improvements in the scale, frequency and accuracy with which the extent and condition of natural capital assets and their actual carbon performance can be assessed. This is particularly the case with respect to forests, which is where a lot of the technological assessment improvements have been achieved recently. The full potential of these technology platforms for natural climate solutions assessment cannot be realized without the primary field data necessary to support model calibration.”
