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🔥💰 Financing the future of wildfire resilience

At SF Climate Week 2025, one message came through loud and clear: we need bold, adaptive financial strategies to keep pace with growing wildfire risk.

From insurance innovation to community-scale adaptation funding, the Climate Resilience Fund’s recap highlights critical conversations on how we align dollars with data to protect people, ecosystems, and infrastructure in a rapidly changing climate.

At SIG, we’re proud to contribute to this ecosystem by providing the science and modeling that inform risk-aware investments and policy. Because when it comes to wildfire resilience, funding must follow the fire science.

📖 Read the full recap: https://www.climateresiliencefund.org/sf-climate-week-2025-highlights-wildfire-insurance-and-adaptation-finance/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=LinkedIn&utm_campaign=WRF-SFCW&utm_id=WRF-SFCW

SF Climate Week 2025 Highlights: Wildfire, Insurance and Adaptation Finance – Climate Resilience Fund Building Resilience, Together

🛰️🌲 Big news from space: ESA’s Biomass satellite is now in orbit!

Designed to map and monitor the carbon stored in Earth’s forests, this mission will provide critical data to improve global carbon accounting and climate modeling.

Why it matters:
🌍 Forests play a key role in regulating our climate
📡 Until now, large-scale biomass estimates have lacked the detail we need
🔬 This satellite will help close that gap—with radar technology capable of peering through forest canopies to measure tree mass directly

At SIG, we’re deeply invested in understanding forest carbon and helping landowners, agencies, and policymakers use that data for smarter, climate-focused land management.

📖 Learn about our forest carbon and biomass work: https://sig-gis.com/services/forest-carbon/

📡 Read about the launch: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Biomass_launched_to_count_forest_carbon

Biomass launched to count forest carbon ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 29 April at 11:1...

🛰️🌲 Big news from space: ESA’s Biomass satellite is now in orbit!

Designed to map and monitor the carbon stored in Earth’s forests, this mission will provide critical data to improve global carbon accounting and climate modeling.

Why it matters:
🌍 Forests play a key role in regulating our climate
📡 Until now, large-scale biomass estimates have lacked the detail we need
🔬 This satellite will help close that gap—with radar technology capable of peering through forest canopies to measure tree mass directly

At SIG, we’re deeply invested in understanding forest carbon and helping landowners, agencies, and policymakers use that data for smarter, climate-focused land management.

📖 Learn about our forest carbon and biomass work: https://sig-gis.com/services/forest-carbon/

📡 Read about the launch:
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Biomass_launched_to_count_forest_carbon

Biomass launched to count forest carbon ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 29 April at 11:1...