Presented by SGInnovate and Sustaintech Xcelerator
In support of Deep Tech for Good
In the race to achieve the ever-increasing ambitions towards net-zero emissions, the voluntary carbon market is gaining momentum with keen buyers seeking to offset the climate footprint of their fossil fuels. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) - as actions that harness the power of nature to tackle social and environmental challenges - is a core foundation to achieving carbon neutrality for its way to build resilience to the consequences of warmer temperatures whilst helping to limit further rises by acting as carbon sinks.
However, when such Nature-based solutions are misused, poorly planned, or not monitored properly, it could instead limit or create the opposite effect on climate change mitigation. Poorly planned nature-based 'offsets' could also create other forms of ethical issues such as the shifting of emission reduction burdens from large corporations onto vulnerable people.
Join us at this session and hear from tech startups leveraging satellite monitoring, hyperspectral imaging and even acoustics to boost transparency, integrity and the quality of carbon credit, thereby increasing investor and buyer confidence in NbS.
The Sustaintech Xcelerator is a six-month global virtual accelerator for climate innovators developing solutions that increase buyer and investor confidence in nature-based solutions (NbS). Powered by DBS Bank, Google Cloud, the National University of Singapore Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, Temasek, Verra and the World Bank, the accelerator boosts the confidence and adoption of disruptive technology solutions that improve the monitoring, reporting and verification of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of NbS.
Date: 27 July 2021, Tuesday
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am (Singapore Time / UTC +8)
Programme:
9:00am - 9:05am: Welcome and Opening Remarks by SGInnovate and Bidyut Dumra, Executive Director, Head of Innovation, DBS Bank
9:05am - 9:35am: Presentations by
Will Sheldon, Commercial Director, FARM-TRACE
Petra Sikorski, Director of Business Development, Cloud Agronomics
Emily Shinzato, Co-founder and Head of People and Performance, Treevia Forest Technologies
Topher White, Founder and CEO, Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
Samuel Gill, Co-founder and COO, Sylvera
Moderator: Yanxing David Ding, Head of Grants, Innovation Practices and Xcelerators, DBS Innovation Group, DBS Bank
9:35am - 10:00am: Panel Discussion and Q&A on Nature-based Solutions as a Force Towards A Carbon Neutral Future with
Frederick Teo, Managing Director, Sustainable Solutions, Temasek
Dr Kelly Siman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions
Emily Shinzato, Co-founder and Head of People and Performance, Treevia Forest Technologies
Petra Sikorski, Director of Business Development, Cloud Agronomics
Topher White, Founder and CEO, Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
Moderator: Hui Ying Yap, Senior Manager, Venture Investing, SGInnovate
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