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09/26/2025

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

https://groundtruth.app/forest-carbon-standards-isometrics-launch-and-lidar-logic/

09/25/2025

This week in forest finance 🌲💸

🇬🇧 UK offsets dominate aid

🇧🇷 JREDD+ grows, questions follow

🇧🇩 SIDA funds mangroves

🍏 Apple’s redwood math

🇸🇬 Singapore buys big

https://groundtruth.app/uk-aid-singapore-buys-and-the-debate-over-forest-offsets/

09/20/2025

This week in 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
From Maine to Malaysia, the credibility race is on.
. https://groundtruth.app/renosters-pivot-forestscans-map-and-tropical-trade-offs/

09/18/2025

🌍 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 U.S. afforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
From pastures to coastlines, capital is moving. https://groundtruth.app/blue-carbon-tools-brazils-pitch-and-californias-push/

09/17/2025

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.

👉👉 Read more here: https://groundtruth.app/closing-the-reforestation-gap-in-the-western-united-states/

09/12/2025

Weekly forest news:

🌳 Reforestation projects that emit before they store

🌧️ 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?

https://groundtruth.app/amazon-drought-kalangala-agroforests-and-carbon-confusion/

09/11/2025

From ⚰️ burial credits to 📺 binge-watch forests, this week in forest finance:
💰 $30M Amazon reforestation raise

🌊 Watershed bills in Washington

📺 Netflix’s 15-year carbon deal

⚰️ Burial credits in Montana

🌴 $18.6B Red Sea “green” resort

https://groundtruth.app/red-sea-deals-masts-burial-credits-and-netflix-forest-bets/

09/10/2025

⚖️ 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.

https://groundtruth.app/apples-carbon-neutral-claims-what-the-data-shows/

09/05/2025

🛰️ 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.
This week’s forest intel is live: maps, markets & missing data.
https://groundtruth.app/mayan-maps-missing-data-and-the-price-of-planting-trees/

09/04/2025

📉 €65B EU biodiversity gap

🪵 $125B forest fund under pressure

💰 $70/tonne ARR premiums

🌍 7 countries testing forest finance futures
From Nigeria’s carbon play to Sweden’s species swaps — who’s building markets, and who’s just planting press releases?
https://groundtruth.app/assisted-migration-nature-credits-nigerian-farms/

09/03/2025

🌍 Up to 1B hectares may be needed to meet Net Zero pledges by 2060.
New research highlights a growing blind spot:

✔️ Customary land rights

✔️ Patchy project boundary data

✔️ Gender gaps in benefit-sharing
Land governance is fast becoming a material risk in carbon markets.

08/29/2025

Will wildfire strategies ever balance equity and efficiency? 🧭 What happens if tropical forests fail to keep pace with the heat? 🌴 https://groundtruth.app/nurseries-in-scotland-firestorms-in-the-american-west/

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