

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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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.


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.


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.


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.'
Photo: Sonny Royal


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?
Stay tuned for updates on our latest work.