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#001 Forests & Forest Carbon Climate Risks & Carbon Sinks Newsletter By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space Planting Trees   Forests help sustain all life on Earth. They clean our water. Cleanse our air. Cool our planet. Store our carbon. Trillions of animals , flora and fauna survive and thrive in forests. Planting trees saves soil. Planting trees and nurturing forests saves the soul of earth. Forests are more than a carbon sink and these realizations have led to numerous initiatives to plant trees. It is time to set aside the doom and gloom and celebrate people and communities planting trees. Humans lost their connection with forests due to urbanization, industrialization and migration. However awareness has been growing

#003.02 The Carbon offset Controversy: Curated comments and opinions on Linkedin By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space The Guardian report on Carbon Offsets has raked up a massive debate. Linkedin has been the primary forum for much discussion and viewpoints. We decided to devote this newsletter to some of the posts and comments on the subject. ( This list is based on People and Posts we follow, and is not comprehensive. That is in part because LinkedIN is not a search and context friendly. If you would like to point us toward thought leaders and commentators , or have something to add to this discussion and debate, please comment to keep this discussion going. We will do a

#002 Forest Fires Climate Risks & Carbon Sinks Newsletter By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space Biggest Wildfires in History: Top 12 Largest Wildfires in History 1. 2003 Siberian Taiga Fires (Russia) – 55 Million Acres 2. 1919/2020 Australian Bushfires (Australia) – 42 Million Acres 3. 2014 Northwest Territories Fires (Canada) – 8.5 Million Acres 4. 2004 Alaska Fire Season (US) – 6.6 Million Acres 5. 1939 Black Friday Bushfire (Australia) – 5 Million Acres Biggest wildfires of the decade: blog.batchgeo.com Primer on Wildfires: wiki/Wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as

#001 Forests & Forest Carbon Climate Risks & Carbon Sinks Newsletter By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space Facts on Forests The world has a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha), which is 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person – although forests are not distributed equally among the world’s people or geographically.  The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world’s forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world’s forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China. (Global Forest Watch ) Forests currently cover

A new class of Earth Observation and AI-driven Voluntary Carbon Credits for Forest Fire prevention and Forest Carbon Sink Regeneration: III/III Part III / III  By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space ForestSAT Voluntary Carbon Credits for Protection of Forests from Fires and Enhancing Forest Carbon Sink Driven by insights gained from AI processing of years and petabytes of data we are embarking on a mission to protect forests from mega-fires and as we protect endangered forests from wildfires, we will be planting trees in areas that are at risk of forest fires or have already been destroyed by them. Our campaign for saving the world’s forests will be funded through a new class of transparent, verifiable and effective

A new class of Earth Observation and AI-driven Voluntary Carbon Credits for Forest Fire prevention and Forest Carbon Sink Regeneration: II/III Part II / III  By Ajay Goyal, Founder & CEO @  ForestSAT.space Early Forest Fire detection for suppression is not a panacea Governments, Space agencies, and space tech companies have started to develop early fire detection methods and do fire modeling to predict the direction and speed of spread so that firefighters can get ahead of the fires. Early detection is key to fire suppression to mobilize firefighters and airplanes to combat and control flames as early as possible. However, the fire storms seen in the last years have taken experienced firefighters by surprise. The speed of the spread of

A new class of Earth Observation and AI-driven Voluntary Carbon Credits for Forest Fire prevention and Forest Carbon Sink Regeneration: I/III Around 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon were emitted globally from forest fires in 2021. Total wildfire emissions from the European Union plus the United Kingdom from 1 June to 31 August 2022 are estimated to be 6.4 mega tonnes of carbon. Copernicus ECMWF Atmosphere Monitoring Service By Ajay Goyal, Founder @ www.forestsat.space Two decades ago global community came together to tackle the crisis of deforestation and the resulting loss of natural carbon sinks. UN-REDD framework was created by the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) of the Parties (COP) to guide activities in the forest sector that reduces emissions from