Research
Liana cutting accelerates the structural recovery of once-logged tropical forests at a fraction of the cost of tree planting
Toby Jackson et al.
Current Biology, 2026
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Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests
Christopher Philipson et al.
Science, 2020
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When Do More Species Maximize More Ecosystem Services?
Eleanor Slade et al.
Trends in Plant Science, 2019
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Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo
Gregory Asner et al.
Biological Conservation, 2017
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The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests
Lindsay Banin et al.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023
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Posts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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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