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🌍 Do you need some good news?🌿 In November we were quite disappointed with the outcomes from the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP 16, in Cali. There was a lack of commitment from the international community and a huge finance gap. Last week, these shortcomings have been fixed in Rome. Here are three key advancements : FUNDING AGREEMENT : The parties agreed to mobilise at least $200 billion of biodiversity finance a year by 2030. It includes innovative approaches to attract private investments. MONITORING : The monitoring framework in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has been amended with common measurement tools to track the progress of the 23 targets and four goals. The parties will use common “yardsticks” to measure progress. CALI FUND : Has been successfully launched. Companies using natural genetic resources in their business will be asked to contribute financially to a fund. The latter will fund biodiversity projects in countries from which the genetic data originated. #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #environment #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration #landegradationneutrality

Why not going faster further in adopting nature based solutions for the benefit of all? Alain RetiereHinrich Paulsen 🇪🇺Philippe GISQUETOliver HerrmannMarkus NetelerXenia PaulsenNicolas AckermannMichel Ackermann

"Nature-Based Solutions Do More Than Enhance Climate Resilience" In this interesting article by the World Resources Institute you'll find out how nature based solutions can help adapt cities to climate change and have positive effects on local populations. #naturebases #restoration #ClimateChange #ecosystemrestoration #ClimateAction

Watch Suleiman Dikwa (FCTI,CNA, FCMC) speak on how satellite monitoring helps to attract sustainable finance and which future opportunity he sees in this technology. Thank you so much for having taken the time Suleiman! #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #environment #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration #landegradationneutrality

"ESMERALDA SAS will provide the comfort for investors to actually monitor their investments and create value" In the second part of his interview Suleiman Dikwa (FCTI,CNA, FCMC) shares with us why land degradation neutrality is a great opportunity for Nigeria and how satellite monitoring is key to its success. #landegradationneutrality #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration 

"economic incentives continue to drive ecosystem destruction" #Climatefinance is the pivotal element to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In this interesting article you'll find out what the money will be used for, where it comes from and what's the role of private capital. #ecosystemrestoration #climateadaptation #SDG

Meet Suleiman Dikwa (FCTI,CNA, FCMC) one of our project partners in Nigeria. In this sequence he introduces himself and shares his optimism about land degradation neutrality. #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #environment #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration #landegradationneutrality Alain Retiere Hinrich Paulsen 🇪🇺 Jürgen Ackermann Markus Neteler Michel Ackermann Nicolas Ackermann Philippe GISQUET Oliver Herrmann Xenia Paulsen

Meet Suleiman Dikwa (FCTI,CNA, FCMC) one of our project partners in Nigeria. In this sequence he introduces himself and shares his optimism about land degradation neutrality. #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #environment #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration #landegradationneutrality Alain Retiere Hinrich Paulsen 🇪🇺 Jürgen Ackermann Markus Neteler Michel Ackermann Nicolas Ackermann Philippe GISQUET Oliver Herrmann Xenia Paulsen

🎉 The entire ESMERALDA team wishes you happy end of year celebrations with your friends and family. 🫂 We look forward to 2025 a year with many challenges and wonderful perspectives ahead! As a treat for the eye, some art from space. 🎁 Our partner mundialis GmbH & Co. KG kindly let us use this image of the Mont Blanc located in France and Italy. "For this land/water composition, channels 8A (visible and near infrared), 11 (short-wave infrared) and 4 (visible red) were used. Healthy vegetation appears in orange and older vegetation in green. The ground and clouds also appear in different shades of green. Water is painted in shades of blue while ice appears in dynamic magenta. As the bands 8A and 11 are only available in a 20 m resolution, they were sharpened using pan image sharpening. For this purpose, a pseudo-panchromatic band was used, which was generated from the bands that are available in a 10 m resolution (bands 2, 3, 4 and 8)." #satelliteimage #earthobservatioon

LDN & EUDR you go it! But what’s the link with ESMERALDA?! 🎯 ESMERALDA's mission is to fill critical gaps in the implementation of large-scale LDN projects. By providing a new way to centralise all data relevant to the planning of such a project in one platform. Planning will significantly be simplified. It also facilitates the involvement of local stakeholders in designing the project in a co-creation process, collecting all information in a central geo-referenced database. 💰 The second gap addressed by ESMERALDA is related to funding. By focusing on sustainable business models, the economic viability of the project is established. The confidence of investors, who provide significant sums of money, is gained through regular satellite monitoring at short intervals, which minimises issues such as corruption and misappropriation of funds. 🪺 In addition, the projects are designed so that one-third of the land is reserved for wildlife, one-third is used to produce high-value commodities for the world market, and one-third is used to produce staple foods for the local market. This will make the restored areas economically viable and shorten the break-even period of the project. Lastly, the ESMERALDA TRACKER monitoring tool will enable new revenue streams, such as carbon credits. #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalImpact #remotesensing #environment #sustainablefinance #ecosystemrestoration #landegradationneutrality