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4C in the University annual sustainability report

26 March 2024

The University of Cambridge's annual sustainability report for last year is now available online here , and provides details of the University's efforts towards reducing our collective impact on the planet. 4C has been working closely with the University towards a common understanding of when and where offsets should be...

LIFE: a metric for quantitively mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

12 December 2023

LIFE is a new metric that's like a crystal ball for global biodiversity. A big challenge facing the world today is global consumption causing land cover changes like deforestation, which reduces habitat for wildlife and makes them more vulnerable to extinction. Now, picture a policymaker anywhere in the world using the new...

Cloud forest: crowns trees in a misty tropical rainforest.

Offset markets: new approach could help save tropical forests by restoring faith in carbon credits

30 October 2023

A new way to price carbon credits could encourage desperately needed investment in forest preservation and boost vital progress towards net-zero. Research published today in Nature Climate Change by the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits.

We're hiring - Postdoc in Leakage Impact of Forest Restoration

18 September 2023

We're seeking a passionate Post-doc Researcher to join our team here at Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C) for a two-year project. Working with our partners at re.green, you'll play a key role in developing a remote sensing framework to measure leakage from forest restoration efforts in Brazil.

The 'why' of 4C: Prof Keshav on the power of trees

14 August 2023

Prof Keshav, one of the directors of 4C, has spent the past decade reducing the carbon cost of energy, buildings and transport. But that's only part of the puzzle: we still need to remove carbon from the atmosphere. In this video, Keshav explains how forestry and nature-based solutions are a 'two-for-one', supporting biodiversity as well as removing carbon from the air.

An overhead image of a forest with tree crowns circled to show individual trees and areas without trees.

Detectree2 - a new way to delineate individual tree crowns in tropical forests

23 May 2023

James Ball and colleagues have developed a computer vision method for delineating tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery, available as an open-source Python package.

First working paper for Tropical Moist Forest accreditation methodology now available

22 May 2023

This draft document now available on Cambridge Open Engage describes the methodology developed by 4C for estimating the number of credits to be issued to a project in the tropical moist forest (TMF) biome. It expands on the methodology outlined in the Cambridge Offset Working Group report , and forms the basis for how we...

A closeup image of an insect sitting on a leaf in a tropical forest.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

5 May 2023

Carbon credits can be a valuable tool for climate change mitigation and forest conservation, but their success depends on improving their credibility. A letter to Science co-authored by 17 researchers from Cambridge and around the world.

Seeing trees in new ways: International Day of Forests

21 March 2023

A phone app to measure tree trunks; machine learning to fight forest fires; and putting Belfast’s trees on the map: our researchers are using new technologies to understand trees and forests in new ways. For UN International Day of Forests, we’re celebrating the work of early-career researchers in our team who are already making a real-world impact.

4C speaks on counterfactual methods and their use in the voluntary forest carbon market

14 March 2023

Tom Swinfield appeared last week on a moderated panel held by the Society for Conservation Biology to talk about 'Counterfactual methods and their use in the voluntary forest carbon market: past, present and future', and discuss the 4C methodologies we have been developing. The panel also featured Thales West (Vrije...

4C in the University annual sustainability report

LIFE: a metric for quantitively mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

Offset markets: new approach could help save tropical forests by restoring faith in carbon credits

We're hiring - Postdoc in Leakage Impact of Forest Restoration

The 'why' of 4C: Prof Keshav on the power of trees

Detectree2 - a new way to delineate individual tree crowns in tropical forests

First working paper for Tropical Moist Forest accreditation methodology now available

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

Seeing trees in new ways: International Day of Forests

4C speaks on counterfactual methods and their use in the voluntary forest carbon market

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