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Our guests today are, Diego Saez-Gil of Pachama and Sam Gill of Sylvera, and we're talking about forestry carbon offsets.

Forestry carbon offsets were designed as a financial tool to provide an economic incentive for landowners to make alternative decisions, to pay landowners to keep their forests intact in the case of deforestation avoidance credits or to reforest previously damaged land in the case of reforestation credits. The money for this economic incentive comes from large actors who can then take "credit" for their action and apply it against the carbon footprint of their own organization. This is a carbon offset. In the simplest terms, if part of a company cannot decarbonize quickly, but still aims to achieve net-zero emissions, they can pay a forest landowner to preserve their forest and take an agreed upon amount of carbon off their balance sheet accordingly. And it’s a relatively new thing. Forestry carbon offsets have become a popular product over the last decade, and like any maturing industry, it has challenges.

Diego and Sam are here to walk us through why forests matter, the history of offsets and how they work, some of the challenges highlighted recently, and what they think the path forward looks like. Regardless of what you think of carbon offsets, this is a crucial problem to solve. Without an economic incentive to maintain and regrow the world's forests, any thought of avoiding the worst effects of climate change is out the window. 

In this episode, we cover: 

• Diego's background and intro to Pachama
• Sam's experience and an overview of Sylvera
• Forests in the world today and why they matter for climate
• Risk of deforestation and the Amazon becoming a self-reinforcing negative feedback loop
• How the story of biodiversity has changed from a forestry perspective
• Economic levers at play with regard to forests, including reforestation and afforestation
• The link between forest credits, offsets, and carbon markets
• Problems associated with deforestation credits and managing illegal activity
• The voluntary market for deforestation credits, who's buying and why
• How deforestation credits are measured now and historically
• Measuring reforestation and afforestation projects
• Diego and Sam's thoughts on a recent article in The Guardian claiming that most forest carbon offsets are worthless
• How Sylvera assesses forest projects and its reaction to The Guardian article
• Pachama's approach to creating synthetic baselines and validating the uncertainty of predictions
• Overcoming challenges through collaboration
• Predictions for the future of forest carbon markets

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Episode recorded on January 31, 2023

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In the final episode of In Your Nature Season #2 Niall and Ricky share with us their knowledge of the Curlew. The conversation covers their ecology, migratory movements and lots more, almost in a bid to delay the inevitable conversation about the decline of the Eurasian Curlew and many of its closely related cousins. 

A frank interview with BirdWatch Irelands Anita Donaghy (Assistant Head of Conservation) leaves us in no doubt as to the rapid changes we need to make within the areas of farming , forestry and planning as few defend the last remaining Curlew from the annual barrage of nest predators.  

Bird of the week is an enemy of our ground nesting species, the Hooded Crow.
  
This podcast is made in partnership with Heritage Offices of Laois and Offaly County Councils with the support of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the National Biodiversity Action Plan, and the Heritage Council.

This podcast is edited by Ann-Marie Kelly

There may be nothing more satisfying than planting a tree.  Artificial regeneration of hardwoods in particular however can be a challenge.  Trees are lost due to everything from improper planting to interfering vegetation to deer browse.  How do foresters maximize their success at not only having trees survive, but at long-term establishment and growth?  In this episode of SilviCast we explore the challenges of artificial regeneration of hardwoods with Doug Jacobs, the Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology and Associate Head of Extension at Purdue University and a principle scientist at the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center.

For more information, show resources, and to connect with SilviCast visit the episode's website: https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/WFC/Pages/WFC/Research-and-Development/RightTree,RightPlace,RightTime.aspx.  

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರ ಉದ್ಯಾನಗಳ ನಗರಿ (ಗಾರ್ಡನ್ ಸಿಟಿ) ಅಂತ ಕರೀತಾರೆ. ಆದರೆ ಒಂದು ಉದ್ಯಾನ ಅಂದರೆ ಏನು? ಮನೆಯೊಳಗಿನ ಗಿಡಗಳೆ, ವಿಶಾಲವಾದ ತೋಟವೆ, ಅಥವಾ ದಟ್ಟವಾದಂತಹ ಮರಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹವೇ? ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಡಿದು ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿರುವಂತಹ ಸಾವಿರಾರು ಮರಗಳಿದ್ದರು, ಇವೆಲ್ಲರ ಜೊತೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರದ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಂಭಂದವಿದೆ.

ನಮ್ಮ ಈ ಸಂಚಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಡಾ|| ಹರಿಣಿ ನಾಗೇಂದ್ರ ಅವರು ಪವನ್ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್ ಮತ್ತು ಸೂರ್ಯ ಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ರವರ ಜೊತೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಮರಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಈ ಮರಗಳ ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ಈ ನಗರದ ಕೆರೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಇರುವಂತಹ ಪ್ರಭಾವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಹರಿಣಿ ಅವರು ಅಝೀಮ್ ಪ್ರೇಂಜಿ ಯೂನಿವರ್ಸಿಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರೊಫೆಸರ್ ಆಗಿದ್ದರೆ. ಇವರು ಹಲವಾರು ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದರೆ: Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future ಮತ್ತು Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities.

Bengaluru has been called a garden city before, but what is a garden? Is it a manicured lawn, or something closer to a Thota, something in between a home garden, orchard and plantation? Even as public and private trees are being mown down, the city retains an important connection with its trees, many of which have originated from all over the world.

Dr Harini Nagendra joins Surya Prakash BS and Pavan Srinath to talk about trees, their connection with cities, and their history in Bengaluru and elsewhere. They also take a look at how a lake and its surroundings have changed in Bengaluru over the last 200 years.

Harini is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, and is the author of several books, including Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (OUP 2016) and her latest, Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities (Penguin 2019).

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