Webinar: Beyond Forests: How New Innovations in Geospatial Monitoring Will Help Protect All Ecosystems

Protecting forests is critical, but meeting biodiversity, climate and sustainable development targets means preventing the loss of other valuable natural ecosystems as well.

In this webinar, organised by the World Resources Institue's Land & Carbon Lab, you'll to hear from experts from the NASA-funded OPERA project, the University of Maryland and others. Speakers discussed how innovative new geospatial monitoring solutions will inform more sustainable decisions about how to prevent the conversion of natural ecosystems while continuing to meet the world’s growing need for food, timber, and other goods.

The panel also featured Accountability Framework initiative Lead Scientist Leah Samberg and a representative from Cargill. They discussed the importance of identifying critical natural ecosystems, the importance of setting ambitious targets for avoiding conversion, and the role that geospatial monitoring will play in this.

Speakers

• David Bekaert, OPERA Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
• Sarah Carter, Research Associate, WRI Land & Carbon Lab
• Matthew Hansen, Professor, University of Maryland, Global Land & Discovery Laboratory
• Leticia Kawanami, Sustainability Director, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain, Cargill
• Craig Mills, Director, WRI Land & Carbon Lab
• Leah Samberg, Lead Scientist, Accountability Framework initiative

Recording 

Watch the recording in French, Spanish, or Portuguese