Larissa Valadão

During this session, you'll hear 9 lightning talks featuring topics around carbon management and climate change mitigation, including projects related to REDD+, carbon stock mapping, and carbon removal technologies. You'll also hear talks about biodiversity conservation and habitat connectivity, including projects involving tracking forest landscape integrity, building connectivity models for wildlife, and creating species distribution models.

Despite the importance of in situ data for generating accurate and timely environmental insights, technical and human factors often limit the frequency and scale at which data can be collected. Ground is an experimental, open-source platform for collecting geospatial and structured data with Android phones in locations with intermittent connectivity.

During this session, you'll hear from 3 organizations that are leveraging mapping tools for social and environmental impact: Talk 1: "Accelerating innovative forest monitoring for high-integrity MRV" - Remi Dannunzio, UN FAO Talk 2: "Better tools for capacity-development: SilvaCarbon and Google Earth Engine" - Sylvia N Wilson, SilvaCarbon Talk 3: "Driving Positive Change: The Communities Approach to Climate Mitigation" - Larissa Valadão, ECAM and Sandra Braga, CONAQ