The Syncer (Synthesising post-disturbance carbon emissions and removals across Brazil’s Forest Biomes) Workshop was held at INPE (São José dos Campos), and brought together 56 participants, from 14 international and 14 Brazilian institutes, bridging the gap between researchers and applications scientists and policy experts. A range of advances were discussed, such as national and global satellite-based products available for monitoring secondary forest. Field data scientists discussed the unique position of their work to explore important biodiversity and species composition developments and secondary forest recovery. Policy and inventory experts such as from the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the GFOI's R&D Component, and Brazil’s Ministries and associated partners provided their insights to scientists to help advance how results from research on secondary forest carbon accumulation can be better integrated into national and jurisdictional carbon credit reporting and National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Overall, the workshop highlighted four potential avenues for further exploration and addressing Objective 3:

• Discrepancies in secondary forest and age datasets in Brazil
• Comparing AGB regrowth rates from multiple data sources across Brazil’s biomes
• Assessing the permanence of current regrowth rates due to temporal and spatial patterns of climate change and ongoing disturbances.
• ESA BIOMASS data with reference data to show feasibility in Brazil & beyond for assessing disturbance and regrowth.

Requests for more information can be addressed to Viola Heinrich (GFZ) and Luiz Aragao (INPE)