Introducing ORCHID: Scaling Policy and Investment with the First Global Inventory of Carbon and Biodiversity in Tropical Forests

​Join CTrees at the COP30 ICC and IETA Business Pavilion for a session introducing ORCHID, a $100 million, five-year science initiative to revolutionize how we measure, value, and protect tropical forests. Endorsed by leading conservation NGOs and scientific institutions, ORCHID will deliver the world’s most comprehensive tropical forest inventory by 2030, providing detailed carbon and biodiversity data for 1.5 billion hectares of forest in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.

​Panelists and ORCHID Coalition members include: 

• ​Ane Alencar, director of science, IPAM; coordinator, Cerrado and fire initiatives, MapBiomas

• ​Paulo Artaxo, professor, University of São Paulo

• ​Lydie-Stella Koutika, director of research, Centre for Plantations Research, Republic of Congo; co-chair, Science Panel for the Congo Basin

• ​Sassan Saatchi, CEO and chief scientist, CTrees (presenter and moderator)

• ​Lee White, special envoy, Science Panel for the Congo Basin; honorary professor, University of Stirling

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