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A young researcher measures the light environment after a liana cutting treatment in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, in the early 2000s
Christopher D. Philipson
Toby Jackson
Tommaso Jucker
Research18 May 2026

Liana cutting, designed experiments, and carbon baselines

Liana cutting accelerates the recovery of logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment shows why designed experiments matter for forest carbon baselines.

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Searching for candidate VM0047 reference areas across Rondônia, Brazil
belian.earth
Opinion4 May 2026

VM0047's brave call is your ARR project's defining moment

VM0047 locks the developer's matched reference areas at validation and keeps them fixed for the full crediting period. That single choice defines your ARR project's baseline for decades.

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Foundation model embeddings visualised across forest and coastal land use change gradients
belian.earth
Blog7 April 2026

ML4EO 2026: Why Pixels Aren't Enough for Carbon Market Integrity

We're sponsoring ML4EO again this year. Here's why the machine learning for earth observation community matters for carbon markets — and what it still gets wrong about pixels.

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Carbon baseline forest canopy — tropical forest viewed from above
belian.earth
Opinion10 March 2026

The carbon baseline problem nobody wants to talk about

The carbon market has an integrity problem. But while the industry obsesses over which biomass map to trust, the real uncertainty is in the carbon baseline.

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Skiing in Davos during WEF 2026 - empty slopes and untracked powder
Christopher D. Philipson
Blog21 January 2026

Skiing Davos During WEF: My First Real World Economic Forum

WEF 2026 was my first 'real' WEF - less skiing and just a bit more nature than economics. It's good to see that nature is properly on the table at Davos.

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European Space Agency ESA logo - funding forest carbon baseline research
belian.earth
Announcement13 January 2026

belian.earth receives ESA funding to advance forest carbon baseline methods

belian.earth has been awarded funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) for our project 'Conservation Integrity: Geo-AI powered transparency for Nature-Based Solutions.'

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Dipterocarp seedlings in a restoration nursery for forest carbon projects in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Photo: Sonny Royal
Christopher D. Philipson
Hugh Graham
David Burslem
Research8 January 2026

Why Forest Restoration Projects Need Robust Counterfactual Baselines

Every forest carbon project depends on a counterfactual baseline to demonstrate its impact. Whether avoiding deforestation or restoring degraded land, the underlying question is the same: what would have happened without the intervention?

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