Espoo, Finland, 4 April 2023 – CollectiveCrunch, creator of the AI-powered platform that enables sustainable forestry at scale, is launching Linda Planet, a new trustworthy tool for effective biodiversity and carbon tracking. This innovative tool allows forestry professionals to assess forest health by monitoring and tracking changes in both forest biodiversity and carbon storage in near real-time.
“Our goal is to change the world’s understanding of forests by providing the most accurate, scalable, and timely forest analytics possible,” said CollectiveCrunch Co-Founder Rolf Schmitz. “Through solutions like Linda Planet, we can enable sustainable forestry, assist in the mitigation of carbon losses, and bring transparency to forest carbon markets to spearhead the fight against climate change.”
The Urgent Need for Transparency in the Carbon Market
The AI-based Linda Planet solution eliminates the uncertainty and subjectivity associated with forest carbon assessments by offering a scientific and data-driven approach to forest carbon management. It helps mitigate forest carbon value loss by tracking changes and potential damages in near real-time and assists in forecasting the growth and loss of forest carbon stocks.
Linda Planet ensures the accountability of carbon assets behind an offset and provides the transparency necessary for credible carbon development through the AI backbone of the Linda platform. Nominal check-ups with five-year manual auditing cycles of forest carbon assets have proven insufficient. To have a foolproof understanding of the progress and permanence of natural capital, continuous and accurate visibility into the assets is essential – which is what Linda offers.
Linda Planet is uniquely positioned to bring credible baselines to the market at a large scale. Credible baselines are necessary to build a strong foundation for the future of carbon offsets. A data-driven forest carbon inventory helps define stored carbon and rates of sequestration throughout forested lands and assists forest management efforts with precision and high quality.
Tracking Biodiversity Unveils the Reality Behind Biodiversity Loss
A transition to sustainable forestry at a global scale requires analytics ranging from deforestation and carbon stock changes to habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. Ensuring that the world’s forests are on a path towards increased resilience and enhanced biodiversity requires access to the best available intelligence. Resilient forests better withstand natural disturbances and require less time for recovery, reducing the need for clearing trees. Biodiverse forests provide habitats for a wide range of species and ensure that ecosystems remain intact. The ability to track changes in resilience and biodiversity at scale is necessary to address environmental challenges on the road toward global sustainable forestry.
“The dramatic loss of biodiversity in the forestry ecosystem is a serious global challenge. Linda Planet provides continuous visibility into the forest status and timely assessment of disturbances,” said Schmitz. “We’re thrilled to launch this product to the market to fundamentally change how the forestry industry monitors forest health.”
CollectiveCrunch is a solutions provider approved by Verra, a nonprofit organization that operates standards in environmental and social markets, including the world’s leading carbon crediting program, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. CollectiveCrunch’s involvement in the Verra carbon accreditation program will further solidify the organization’s methodologies and add a baseline for near-real-time carbon-storing data to support the program.
CollectiveCrunch has been developing state-of-the-art AI-based technologies for the forest sector since 2016. Linda Forest today covers 23 million hectares of forest. Continuous monitoring is an essential part of understanding changes in the sensitive ecosystem of forests and providing visibility into biodiversity and changes in forest carbon storage in near real-time.
For more information, please contact:
Co-Founder Rolf Schmitz, CollectiveCrunch, rs@collectivecrunch.com, +49 151 1972 6650
Head of Marketing Karolina Forss, CollectiveCrunch, kaforss@collectivecrunch.com, +358 (0)40 541 2431
CollectiveCrunch is a pioneer in AI-based forestry solutions, developing intelligent technologies that introduce unparalleled precision and efficiency to traditional forestry practices. We champion sustainable forest management by providing a comprehensive and accurate understanding of forests and their health, empowering stakeholders with critical information for informed decision-making.
