Name: Corporate Investments into Forestry and Biodiversity
Start: 23/02/2022 08:00 AM +00:00
End: 24/02/2022 02:45 PM +00:00

At 4EI, we are transforming the way organisations obtain value through geospatial analytics and intelligence, using space data for the betterment of humans and the planet.
Our dedicated team of industry leading experts in earth observation, finance, offshore renewables, engineering and technology, turn satellite data and imagery into intelligence and actionable insight by leveraging cutting edge technology such as remote sensing, proprietary machine learning algorithms and analytical techniques.
Trusted by some of the world&rsquo;s largest governments, public agencies and commercial enterprises, our innovative and expanding product suite includes the mapping, monitoring and evaluation of: &nbsp; &nbsp;- Natural Capital and Biodiversity &nbsp; &nbsp;- Soil &nbsp; &nbsp;- Natural Habitats &nbsp; &nbsp;- Heat Hazards As well as: &nbsp; &nbsp;- Carbon finance &nbsp; &nbsp;- Investment screening due diligence &nbsp; &nbsp;- Environmental and social impact &nbsp; &nbsp;- Air Quality Modelling &nbsp; &nbsp;- Object and vehicle detection &nbsp; &nbsp;- Satellite imagery consulting, sourcing and procurement &nbsp; &nbsp;- Offshore renewables
As a global company with headquarters in Europe and the Middle East, we are passionate about helping public and private organisations, large and small, mitigate the impacts of climate change, work towards achieving NetZero and create a sustainable future for all.

4 Earth Intelligence

Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data so organizations can answer key questions about the physical world. Through our SaaS platform, we provide access to hundreds of earth science datasets and algorithms that can be analyzed using artificial intelligence and machine learning at planetary scale. We deliver actionable insights across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resiliency, while also supporting a diverse set of federal government efforts to curate, analyze, and provide actionable insights from geospatial data. Descartes Labs has over 120 employees and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Hear from Dr. Jason Schatz, Sustainability Science Lead, during the Technology Spotlight Session at 11:15 am on Wed, Feb 23rd:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Global organizations are being challenged to reduce the carbon and ecological footprints of their operations and supply chains, but they lack the proper tools to monitor at scale</li>
<li>Traditional methods do not enable the scale, speed, and transparency the world needs to turn the ambitions of COP26 into reality</li>
<li>Descartes Labs has developed new methods based on various sources of innovative geospatial data that are scalable and tunable to specific geographies and land cover types</li>
<li>Our focus areas include land use mapping and change monitoring over varied and dynamic landscapes. We aim to share some details on these during this panel</li>
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Examples include:
<ul>
<li>Forest cover mapping</li>
<li>Deforestation and forest degradation monitoring</li>
<li>Biomass measurement and change mapping across the world's natural ecosystems</li>
</ul>

Descartes Labs

flowcarbon brings carbon offset credits on-chain, leveraging blockchain technology to accelerate the innovation and scale of climate change solutions.

Flowcarbon

The ForestRe team provide specialist services for the forestry industry including independent forestry owners, commercial forest enterprises, crop trees and orchards owners, saw log producers, timber merchants, real estate investment trusts, timber investment/forest management organisations, alternative investment management companies, and regional forest owners associations.
Our products are designed to meet the needs of clients ranging from small growers to international corporations.
Standing Timber Product
<ul>
<li>Coverage can be tailored to suit each client.</li>
<li>Standard fire product is FLEXA (fire, lightning, explosion and aircraft).</li>
<li>Windstorm includes hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and tornados.</li>
<li>Timber or industrial tree plantations is at an agreed value per hectare.</li>
</ul>
Parametric Forestry Wildfire Cover
<ul>
<li>Modern satellite-based, machine learning algorithm technologies.</li>
<li>Faster claim payment process compared to traditional product.</li>
<li>Applicable to other agriculture class.</li>
</ul>
Value at risk product
<ul>
<li>Pre-agreed salvage rates.</li>
<li>Insure only the value of the timber that cannot be recovered.</li>
<li>Lower premiums.</li>
<li>Salvage belongs to insured.</li>
</ul>
Perils covered
<ul>
<li>Fire</li>
<li>Windstorm</li>
<li>Hail</li>
<li>Frost</li>
<li>Rainfall deficiency</li>
<li>Flood</li>
<li>Snow and ice storm</li>
<li>Malicious damage</li>
</ul>
Additional optional coverage
<ul>
<li>Fire fighting costs</li>
<li>Debris removal costs</li>
<li>Aerial photography costs</li>
<li>Claims preparation costs</li>
<li>Re-establishment costs</li>
<li>Plantation infrastructure</li>
</ul>
Exclusions
<ul>
<li>Tsunami</li>
<li>Subterranean fire</li>
<li>Pests and disease</li>
</ul>

ForestRe

The Forestry and Agriculture Investment Summit
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Wednesday 30th November - Thursday 1st December 2022
FAIS helps investors understand how they should react to future challenges. The drive towards net zero is putting an even greater emphasis on investments into carbon accretive assets. FAIS operates at the nexus of finance, government, and ecology.
Our industry leading conferences gather major investors and actors involved in forestry and agriculture. To discuss climate-positive investments, helping to unearth the latest developments for nature-based solutions from leading experts globally. Through peer-to-peer interaction, panel discussions and one-on-one meetings our audience will leave our event armed with climate smart investable opportunities factoring in risks, returns and impact.
You can expect to engage in discussions such as: &bull; Defining issues that impact on an investor &bull; Understanding risk &bull; Estimating future returns &bull; Regenerative agriculture and agroforestry

Forestry & Agriculture Investment Summit

Geotree is a living, breathing digital twin that uses earth observation and AI to revolutionise the way nature-based solutions are monitored.
We aim to set the standard when it comes to the monitoring, reporting, and verification of nature-based solutions. With our world-leading expertise in remote sensing and carbon markets, our team is uniquely positioned to cover the application of earth observation across all the main natural carbon sinks. This will unlock climate finance at scale whilst supporting the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems.
Geotree is a spin-out of Mantle Labs with seed funding and support from Hartree Partners.

Geotree

LLC &quot;GreenEco Investments&quot; was first presented at SPIEF (St. Petersburg International Economic Forum) within the business dialogue &quot;Decarbonization in the Industrial Sector&quot; as a company focused on the implementation of Russian and foreign projects in the field of energy transition. According to the results of the SPIEF, 4 agreements of mutual understanding were signed with Tyumen, Yaroslavl, Kostroma regions and Perm Krai to implement forestry projects.

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The company aims to create an infrastructure for objective measurement of existing CO2 emissions, implement climate projects in Russia and the world in order to increase the absorption of greenhouse gases by natural ecosystems, and develop tools to reduce CO2 emissions, as well as marketing and trading carbon credits and certificates.

Forest-climatic project: At the moment, the implementation of forest-climatic projects is working closely with the regional authorities to select forest areas that meet all the technical criteria for the subsequent lease. Over 700 thousand hectares of the forest lands in the Tyumen region have already been selected. The projects are being implemented in accordance with the methodologies of the certifying organization Verra. Russian-Swedish-German team is working on the project

Measuring and reduction of emissions: this includes work on CO2 emissions inventory, implementation of climatic strategies for oil and gas companies (development of recommendations, search and choice of technologies for reducing CO2 emissions). Currently a pilot project is being implemented together with Socar at ANPZ (Antipinsky Oil Refinery in Tyumen). The project is being implemented with expert support from Alexander Samorodov.

Marketing and Trading: Lining up business processes for carbon credit trading and Carbon-neutral products Climate project on preservation and restoration of wetlands and peat deposits: we see you as a leading expert in the implementation of this project. At the moment we have conducted consultations on the possibility of realization of these projects in a number of regions of the Russian Federation. We are selecting and working out the methodology according to which the project will be realized. While we lean towards the methodology of Verra VM0007. The project will be implemented both in specially selected areas, and as part of the implementation of forest-climatic projects in the regions with which we have already signed agreements of understanding.

Investments into new technologies, venture companies: GreenEco Investments is opened to invest into the different related to energy transition and decarbonization.

GreenEco Investments

Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. Maxar&rsquo;s 4,300 team members in over 20 global locations are inspired to harness the potential of space to help our customers create a better world. Maxar trades on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more information, visit www.maxar.com.

Maxar Technologies

About Us&nbsp;
NatureRe is a Switzerland-based company with the purpose to restore nature and remove carbon at scale whilst providing sound returns. Together with our partner South Pole we have put together a global team of seasoned experts channelling finance into impact investing.
We have acquired pieces of land in the region of Antioquia, Colombia: 700 hectares with almost 70% of it in a degraded state due to cattle ranching activities. The ecosystem around is very rich and diverse, and will help achieve the natural restoration of the lands.
On top of letting Nature do its work by sowing its seeds, NatureRe&rsquo;s expert team will assist nature with soft measures such as weeding, fire prevention, exclusion of grazing animals, bird perches, boundary fencing and control of invasive species.
The local community around will be involved in the project, and will benefit from it with activities such as eco-tourism, ranger jobs to protect the restored land and investments in education projects.
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How we operate
We identify land in need of restoration
We restore nature applying Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR)
We certify projects to the highest standards
We sell carbon credits, generating sound returns
We manage returns
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Reference project
In 2014, we initiated a pilot project in the Choc&oacute; region of Colombia. In total, an area of approx. 8ha in need of restoration of a natural park (350ha) was identified, acquired and restoration processes were started. Seven years later, local communities can see the impact of the project: nature has regenerated, and the unique biodiversity of Colombia has flourished once again.
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For more information, please contact Daniel Pfeifer via d.pfeifer@nature-re.com

NatureRe Capital AG

Satelligence is a Dutch NatureTech company that uses satellite technology to provide insights into the global performance of agricultural production, supply chain and ESG risks, such as deforestation, land degradation, forest fires and carbon emissions and sequestration.
Building on over 20 years of field experience, AI, GIS and remote sensing expertise and 5 offices in The Netherlands, US, Ghana, Bolivia and Indonesia, Satelligence helps growers, traders, manufacturers, fund managers and global agribusiness mitigate deforestation, track progress towards a net-zero supply chain and achieve sustainability commitments for palm oil, cocoa, coffee, soy, rubber, beef, leather and other commodities.
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Satelligence

Space Intelligence supports developers of Nature Based Solutions in their project development and monitoring, ensuring delivery of climate benefits. We do this by providing information on land cover, analysing habitats and above ground carbon storage across the world. We work with governments, NGOs and large multinationals to provide trusted information backed by world class science. &nbsp;
We create this information by applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to big data from satellites, leveraging decades of experience in using satellite data analytics to address environmental challenges. We provide high quality products and services, whether that is classification of satellite imagery, advising on data acquisition and processing, or implementing large scale forest monitoring programmes.
We have utilised our Habitat Mapper and Carbon Mapper for many projects in Africa, Asia and the Americas, working with multinational companies and major NGOs. We also undertake work closer to home, having conducted landscape analysis for the UK Government&rsquo;s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and recently publishing Scotland&rsquo;s first-ever Scotland-wide high resolution habitat maps, for free, funded by the Scottish government.
Space Intelligence is a fast growing team, ranked in the top 10 most innovative Scottish tech companies in 2020 in the BusinessCloud Scotland Tech 50, and currently a participant in the Bayes DDE Post-Covid AI Accelerator.

Space Intelligence

Space4Good is developing and offering monitoring, reporting and verification applications for nature-based solutions using satellite earth observation and artificial intelligence. We are a team of impact-driven data scientists, remote sensing &amp; GIS experts, software developers as well as environmental and urban planners using our unique skills and experience for social and environmental impact. Starting our journey in the European Space Agency (ESA) Business Incubation Center in The Netherlands, Space4Good B.V. was launched in 2017 and became a certified Benefit Corporation (B.Corp). Now based in The Hague, the city of Peace and Justice, we work around the world and collaborate with NGOs, universities, public authorities, multinationals and other social enterprises to change the status quo for a &nbsp;better planet and society.&nbsp;
Space4Good is driven by our core values: innovation, partner focus, teamwork and our commitment to sustainability contributing to vulnerable landscapes and each of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. We are proud members of The Humanity Hub and Impact Hub whose network and facilities help us in achieving our vision!

Space4Good

Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world&rsquo;s most intractable environmental and social challenges. As a mission-driven non-profit organization, Verra is committed to helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve livelihoods and protect natural resources by working with the private and public sectors. We support climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently, and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up projects that verifiably deliver these benefits. We work in any arena where we see a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms, and an opportunity to generate significant environmental and social value.

Verra

Vizzuality is a change-driven design and technology agency creating bespoke, science-based data visualisations and digital tools that inspire learning, catalyse decisions and improve our world. We work together with proactive organisations to create a better future for our planet and society.
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With Landgriffon services&nbsp; - www.landgriffon.com - We help companies become sustainable by understanding and planning strategies to manage environmental impacts and risks in supply chains.

Vizzuality

<ul>
<li>How corporates are dealing with this</li>
<li>Corporates response to COP and Biodiversity</li>
<li>Supply chain liability</li>
<li>The need for alliances</li>
</ul>

Felicity Spors

Niels Wielaard

Jos Lemmens

The Impact on Corporates of the Evolving EU and International Regulatory Landscape

<ul>
<li>Internalising carbon footprints</li>
<li>Supply chain benefits</li>
<li>Combining production and conservation</li>
<li>Optimising working with indigenous communities and stakeholders</li>
</ul>

Willie Smits

Patrick Worms

Stephanie Race

Oliver Hanke

Agroforestry as a Natural Climate Solution

<ul>
<li>The importance of engagement</li>
<li>How engagement on a portfolio level works</li>
<li>Positive results achieved through engagement</li>
<li>The advantages of a collaborative engagement approach</li>
</ul>

Laura Bosch Ferreté

Greta Fearman

Nanne Tolsma

Achieving a Forest Positive Future through Corporate Engagement

<ul>
<li>REDD+ and ARR projects</li>
<li>Dealing in high risk countries, the pitfalls and positive</li>
<li>How can NGO&rsquo;s improve outreach to private partners to motivate more capital?</li>
</ul>

Ivo Mulder

Fernando Russo

Anton Timpers

Edit Kiss

Tropical Forest Investments

<ul>
<li>Is there a need to differentiate between removals and reductions?</li>
<li>Integrity of carbon credits</li>
<li>What does a high-quality credit mean?</li>
<li>Can carbon markets support biodiversity or is it better to have a separate dedicated biodiversity market?</li>
</ul>

Alison Graham

Stephen Donofrio

Duncan Van Bergen

Chris Zink

Carbon Markets, Operation, Functions, and Opportunities

<ul>
<li>Applying the landscape approach</li>
<li>Scope 3 and landscape supply sheds</li>
<li>The latest in landscape level investment</li>
<li>Monitoring landscape carbon and biodiversity</li>
</ul>

On Demand

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Asger Olesen

Alison Graham

Aleksandra Holmlund

Alex Buskey

Alexis Moyer

Charles Karangwa

Chris Zink

Deborah Humphreville

Denis Subbotin

Duncan Van Bergen

Edit Kiss

Edward Hewitt

Fatima Hadj

Felicity Spors

Fernando Russo

Greta Fearman

Ivo Mulder

James Liu

Jan Burger

Jessica Denoyelle

Judith Helfmann-Hundack

Mariam Crichton

Naomi Swickard

Patrick Worms

Paul Smith

Paul Chatterton

Petri Lehtonen

Robin Loveridge

Stephanie Race

Nanne Tolsma

Niels Wielaard

Willie Smits

Phil Cottle

Laura Bosch Ferreté

Flora Ji

Martin Poulsen

Laure Bourgeois

Stephen Donofrio

Juliianne Baroody

Sandeep Roy Choudhury

Jon Pierre

Craig Mills

Anton Timpers

Jacek Siry

Bob Izlar

Lucy Almond

Bettina Von Hagen

Andrey Ptichnikov

Jason Schatz

Oliver Hanke

Jos Lemmens

Keith Balter

Hayley Cooper

Stephanie Hamlin

Kay Becker

Ben Turner

Rebecca Harrison

Harriet Blacker

Warren Erses

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