Conference Agenda

Welcome and Forum objectives

Antony Delavois, Frank Martin Seifert

European Space Agency, ESA

Welcome and Introduction from ESA

Rune Floberghagen

European Space Agency, ESA

Status on latest European regulations

Simon Kay

DG-CLIMA

Setting the scenes

Richard Hall

Equinor

Padlet: expectations from the audience

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Invited talk from the World Bank (remote)

Julian Gonzalo Jimenez

World Bank

BNP Paribas': Commitment to identifying and using high quality Carbon credits

Guillaume Poupy

BNP Paribas

Commercial applications of remote sensing Opportunities within Carbon markets

Francesco Martoccia

Citi Bank

Invited talk from AON

Adrian Champion

AON

Insurance Innovation: Focus on Carbon Credits

Vania Hernandez-Bello

Descartes Underwriting

Q&A/Discussions

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AICarbonHub: An Earth Observation based Carbon Marketplace for Continuous Monitoring and Verification

Mattia Rigiroli^1,2, Giovanni Giacco^1,3, Antonio Elia Pascarella³, Donato Amitrano⁴, Paolo De Piano¹

1: Latitudo 40, Via Emanuele Gianturco 31C, 80142 Naples, Italy; 2: University of Genova, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Via Montallegro 1, 16145 Genova, Italy; 3: Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy; 4: Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Via Maiorise snc, 81043 Capua, Italy

Assessing the carbon budget of cropland using different remote sensing methods

Gaétan Pique¹, Basile Goussard¹, Andréa Geraud^1,2

1: NetCarbon, France; 2: CESBIO, France

Automatic detection of field boundaries using SatEO to power the carbon market

Nils Helset

DigiFarm, Norway

Blue carbon accounting of Posidonia oceanica seagrass in the Balearic Islands using Earth Observation and in situ data

Mar Roca¹, Chengfa Benjamin Lee², Avi Putri Pertiwi², Alina Blume³, Isabel Caballero¹, Gabriel Navarro¹, Dimosthenis Traganos²

1: Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia (ICMAN-CSIC), Cádiz (Spain); 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin (Germany); 3: European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati (Italy)

Carbon Flux Baseline Estimation for Rubber Plantation by Upscaling Eddy Covariance Measurement with Satellite-based Indicators

Chompunut Chayawat¹, Pramet Kaewmesri¹, Nuntikorn Kitratporn¹, Pakorn Petchprayoon¹, Duangrat Satakhun², Poonpipope Kasemsap³

1: Geo-Informatics & Space Technology Development Agency (Public Organization), Thailand; 2: Center of Thai-French Cooperation on Higher Education and Research, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3: Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Application of game theory to assess satellite EO-based MRV systems in the voluntary carbon market

Filippo Gregori, Giancarlo Filippazzo

European Space Agency, Italy

Defining the need for EO solutions to strengthen the sustainability of corporate supply chains

Annekatrien Debien, Rainer Horn

SpaceTec Partners, Belgium

Deploying MRV across Europe to grow adaption of regenerative agriculture

Nathan Torbick

Agreena, Denmark

Development of an Advanced Pipeline for High-Resolution Land Use Land Cover Classification and Carbon Stock Estimation

Inês Girão, Ana Oliveira, Manvel Khudinyan, Rita Cunha

+ATLANTIC Colab, Portugal

Enhancing Forest Carbon Monitoring Using Satellite Imagery and Limited Ground Reference Data

Tuomas Häme¹, Heikki Astola¹, Jorma Kilpi¹, Yrjö Rauste¹, Laura Sirro¹, Teemu Mutanen², Eija Parmes¹, Jussi Rasinmäki³, Mohammad Imangholiloo⁴, Jukka Miettinen¹

1: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland; 2: OP Financial Group; 3: AFRY Management Consulting; 4: University of Helsinki

Enhancing reliability of carbon credits: UAV-LiDAR carbon estimation for REDD+ in Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado)

Silvio Henrique Menezes Gomes, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Leo Eiti Haneda, Arthur Kaufmann Sanchez, Bruna Pereira de Azevedo, Diego Ribeiro de Aguiar, Renan Akio Kamimura

brCarbon Serviços Ambientais, Sao Paulo, Brazil

EO4CarbonFarming - A Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Tool to Harvest the Power of Earth Observation for the Voluntary Carbon Farming Market

Silke Migdall, Wolfgang Angermair, Hanna Deuscher, Isabella Kausch, Jakob Wachter, Nicolas Corti

VISTA GmbH, Germany

Estimating Soil Organic Carbon Stock Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: A Case Study in Campania, Southern Italy

EYAL BEN DOR¹, FRAMCOS NICOLAS¹, NUNZIO ROAMNO², PAOLO NASTA²

1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: University of Napoli

FORLIANCE Monitoring and Communication Platform

Einav Grinberg, Antonio Calle Sanchez, Dr. Konrad Hentze

FORLIANCE GmbH, Germany

Leveraging Satellite Imagery and Terrestrial Laser Scanners for Assessing Carbon Sequestration in Para Rubber Forests

Phattaraporn Sangrawee, Sitthisak Moukomla, Kampanat Deeudoomchan, kairop Pongphiboonkiet

Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda), Thailand

Monitoring carbon from space – a thermal perspective

Matthieu Taymans, Daniel Spengler, Elsy Ibrahim, Jonas Berhin

constellr GMBH, Belgium

Monitoring carbon stocks of two Brazilian Amazon REDD+ projects using UAV-LiDAR

Danilo Roberti Alves Almeida, Silvio Henrique Menezes Gomes, Leo Eiti Haneda, Arthur Kaufmann Sanchez, Bruna Pereira de Azevedo, Diego Ribeiro de Aguiar, Renan Akio Kamimura

brCarbon Serviços Ambientais, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Remote sensing for quantification of carbon benefits in small holder farmer agroforestry systems

Mila Luleva, Xi Zhu, Eline Kajim

Rabobank, Netherlands, The

SarCarbon

Wilbert van Rooij

SarVision, The Netherlands

The Global Seagrass Watch service: Blue Carbon Accounting through Contemporary Earth Observation Analytics

Dimosthenis Traganos¹, Spyridon Christofilakos¹, Avi Putri Pertiwi¹, Benjamin Chengfa Lee¹, Alina Blume²

1: DLR, Germany; 2: ESA, Italy

The integration of Earth Observation data and other innovative technologies leverages the implementation of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification frameworks of Soil Organic Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Balance.

Marta Gómez-Giménez¹, Asa Gholizadeh², Bas van Wesemael³, Benjamin Sanchez⁴, Bernard Heinesch⁵, Bertrand Guenet⁶, Claudia Colonnello⁷, Eleni Kalopesa⁸, Eyal Ben Dor⁹, Francisco José Blanco-Velázquez¹⁰, Goedele Van den Broeck³, Holger Lange¹¹, Iryna Raiskaya¹², Ivan Janssens¹³, Jelena Lazić¹⁴, Laura Poggio¹⁵, Maria Fantappie¹⁶, Nikolaos Tziolas^8,17, Paula Pérez-Rodríguez¹⁸, Romain Boulet¹⁹, Sabine Chabrillat^20,22, Uta Heiden²¹

1: GMV, Aerospace and Defence SAU, Spain; 2: Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic; 3: UCLouvain, Belgium; 4: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), CSIC, Spain; 5: University of Liege, Belgium; 6: CNRS - Ecole normale supérieure – PSL University - IPSL, France; 7: Knowledge and Innovation, Italy; 8: University of Thessaloniki, Greece; 9: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 10: Evenor-Tech, Spain; 11: NIBIO, Norway; 12: Universität Greifswald, Germany; 13: Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium; 14: ICONS, Italy; 15: ISRIC, The Netherlands; 16: CREA, Italy; 17: University of Florida, USA; 18: Universidade de Vigo, Spain; 19: Soil Capital, Belgium; 20: GFZ – Helmholtz-Zentrum Postdam Haus, Germany; 21: German Aerospace Center (DLR),Germany; 22: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Using satellite imagery to track carbon sequestration and GHG emissions

Alain RETIERE¹, Philippe GISQUET², Lorenzo Eula¹

1: EVERIMPACT, France; 2: VISIO TERRA, France

Using satellite-derived parameters to assess the adoption of Alternative Wetting–Drying (AWD) practice: a case study of Thailand’s paddy fields.

Sirikul Hutasavi, Panu Nueangjumnong, Nuntikorn Kitraporn, Siam Lawawirojwong

Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, Thailand

Way forward with EO for national forest and land monitoring: carbon and beyond

Inge Jonckheere

FAO of the UN, Italy

Beyond binaries: forest change in drylands

Saheba Bhatnagar, Rong Fang, Edoardo Nemni, Tom Taylor, Alex Vierod Vierod, Michal Gricuk, Preeti Bisht Bisht, Niels Andela Andela, Phil Platts

BeZero Carbon Ltd, United Kingdom

Evaluating earth observation actors as issuers of offset credits

Filippo Gregori

LUISS Rome, Italy

Biodiversity and the Next Era of Carbon Markets: a Case Study of Earth Observation Project Development

Marc Maleika, Michael Hylind

Sylva Germany UG, Germany

ETS Overview (remote)

Jann Nill

DG-CLIMA

Needs for aviation (non CO2) (remote)

Dimitar Nikov

DG-CLIMA

Maritime Sector in ETS

Samuel Djavidnia

EMSA

Q&A/ Discussions&Padlet

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Opening Remarks

Spencer Plumb

Verra

Understanding Integrity Issues in the Voluntary Carbon Market

Spencer Plumb

Verra

Presentation of real-world case studies - EO have successfully contributed to resolving integrity issues.

Katharyn Duffy¹, Ed Mitchard², Francois Carre³

1: Vibrant Planet; 2: Space Intelligence & University of Edinburgh; 3: BNP Paribas

Open Panel Questions

Spencer Plumb

Verra

Audience Q&A questions

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Opening Remarks

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GEOSAT: Sub-metric EO Biomass Estimation Model

Carolina de Castro, Rafael Sousa, César Fernández, Maria Elena Calleja, Rubén Niño, Lucia Garcia, Silvia Fraile

GEOSAT SLU, Spain

ESA Forest Carbon Monitoring project – Key findings

Jukka Miettinen¹, Oleg Antropov¹, Tuomas Häme¹, Frank Martin Seifert²

1: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland; 2: European Space Agency

Advances on the WORLDSOILS Soil Organic Carbon Monitoring System

Julia Yagüe¹, Adrián Sanz¹, Laura Poggio², Bas van Wesemael³, Nikolaos Tsakiridis⁴, Sabine Chabrillat^5,6, Uta Heiden⁷, Asa Gholizadeh⁸, Eyal Ben-Dor⁹

1: GMV Aerospace and Defence SAU, Spain; 2: ISRIC - World Soil Information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen (Building 101), the Netherland.; 3: Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.; 4: Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy, and GIS, Department of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; 5: Section Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre For Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.; 6: Institute of soil science, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhauserstr. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany; 7: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Wessling, Germany.; 8: 8 Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, Prague, 16500, Czech Republic.; 9: The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Zelig 10, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Towards an Earth Observation-integrated LULUCF operational service in Europe in support to GHG public reporting and forest carbon trading

Nathalie Morin, Christian Schleicher, Michael Riffler, Norman Kiesslich, Mario Dohr, Tanja Gasber, Andreas Walli, Christina Hirzinger, Christian Hoffmann

GeoVille GmbH, Austria

Q&A/Discussions

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Opening Remarks

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REDD+ Project

Basanta Gautam

South Pole

CTrees

S. Saatchi Saatchi

JPL, USA

Blue Carbon (remote)

Steve Crooks

Nature Markets

Global Carbon credits products (remote)

Trevor Keenan

Earthshot/UCB

Q&A/Discussions

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Opening Remarks

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GHGSat: Pioneering high-res methane emissions monitoring to support GHG regulatory change in Europe

CARLES DEBART

GHGSat, Spain

Forest or Carbon Watch

S. Ben Arous, M. Messador

Kessador

Challenges and opportunities for using Earth Observation data in carbon markets

Niels Andela, Saheba Bhatnager, David Morley, Camila Silva, Tobias Richter, Tom Taylor, Luca Minello, Dave van Wees, Aoibheann Brady, Phil Platts

BeZero Carbon, United Kingdom

Policy Requirements for MRV LULUCF, Carbon Farming, GHG inventories (remote)

Lucia Perugini

EEA, Europa

Carbon Removals from EO: perspective of the EO industry

F. Volpe

EARSC

Q&A/Discussions

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Introduction to debate

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Wrap-up and Recommendations

Sabrina Lodadio

Serco c/o ESA, Italy