Biodiversity Credit Alliance

📺𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆   💡During #COP16, BCA hosted a multi-stakeholder panel that discussed the meaning of demand integrity, its importance for unlocking demand for biodiversity credits, and ways we can build high integrity demand in the market.   🌿Check out the recording here: https://lnkd.in/ebSu_Jks and hear expert insights from Biodiversity Credit Alliance's Josh Brann, Esther Netshivhongweni from the Communities Advisory Panel, Alessandro Valentini from World Economic Forum, Toral Shah from Plan Vivo Foundation and Cain Blythe from CreditNature about the meaning of demand integrity and how it can be supported.

📺At COP16, Biodiversity Credit Alliance, International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits and World Economic Forum were excited to present the High-level Principles to Guide the Biodiversity Credit Market. These principles aim to guide the market and build a common understanding of good practice, and were developed after an extensive consultative process with various stakeholders. You can check out the recording of the event here: https://lnkd.in/e9gwHjqv 🌿BCA, IAPB and WEF are looking forward to officially publishing these principles. If you would like to endorse the principles, please reach out to the BCA Secretariat (secretariat@biodiversitycreditalliance.org). 💡Check out the event recording for a presentation of the principles, as well as to hear from our speakers Midori Paxton, UNDP, Sören Müller, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Sandy Sheard CBE, International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits and Alessandro Valentini, World Economic Forum. The panel discussion is moderated by Samantha Lacey from The Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd and features Nkamunu Patita, EarthAcre and the Communities Advisory Panel, Juan Camilo Pinto, Ph.D., Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Leonardo Busatto, BRDE, Hanieh Moghani, Communities Advisory Panel, Cain Blythe, CreditNature, Owain Griffiths, Volvo Cars, with closing remarks from Manesh Lacoul of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance.

🌿The 15th BCA Forum meeting was held on Thursday, November 14th, featuring a presentation from Oliver Bolton, the CEO and co-founder of Earthly. Their voluntary biodiversity credits scheme is based on the methodology developed for the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain policy, and the first batch of credits from their project with the South Downs National Park were recently purchased. BNG units are broken down into smaller areas of nine square meters, which must be secured for 30 years. Earthly uses 106 indicators spread out across carbon, biodiversity and social benefits to allow carbon and nature-based projects to be evaluated and show their potential to deliver on biodiversity and social impact goals as well as carbon. 📢BCA Forum meetings are held every six weeks and feature updates from the Secretariat, Communities Advisory Panel (CAP) and Working Groups, as well as sharings from Forum members about their work and insights into the biodiversity credit landscape. 👉Interested in taking part? To join the BCA Forum and participate in future Forum meetings and discussions, register your organisation's interest here: https://lnkd.in/d2rcP_5K

📺Didn't manage to make it to #COP16? BCA will be sharing recordings of our events that took place during the conference. 💡Our first panel, Building the Future: Digitally Native Frameworks for Scaling Biodiversity Credits is now on YouTube! Check out the recording here: https://lnkd.in/ejiXSMpi 🌿Moderated by The HBAR Foundation Hania Othman, this panel discussed guidelines for the practitioners in the biodiversity credit ecosystem to support the enabling of digitally native biodiversity markets, which can help foster trust and efficiency in the market. Join Nathalie Whitaker from the Toha Network, Terence Hay-Edie from UNDP and Fabian Schmidt-Pramov of biometrio.earth as they discuss principles that can be reflected and embedded within rule-based digital solutions for biodiversity credit issuance, transfer, and retirement.

📢BCA's Global Coordinator Manesh Lacoul will be speaking at the Annual Roundtable Conference on Sustainable Palm Oil in Bangkok, Thailand, from 11 to 13 November 2024. If you're there in-person, don't miss this important discussion about biodiversity financing and the future of sustainable palm oil!

🌎 It’s Day 9 at COP16, and today is the last day of BCA events at COP! Please come by the CAF pavilion where Global Coordinator Manesh Lacoul will be talking about biodiversity credits in the Latin American context: 📌 Challenges and opportunities for the development of biodiversity credits in LAC ⏰09:30 – 10:50, CAF Pavilion 👉This event aims to contribute to enabling an environment for a competitive and transparent market for biodiversity credits including a multi-stakeholder approach, helping to clarify the key concepts as well as provide concrete and useful discussions around the next steps needed to ensure their success. The first panel will explore worldwide lessons from biodiversity credits, followed by a second panel discussing specific challenges and opportunities in the LAC context with regional experts. 🐾Check out the "Biodiversity Jenga" installation in the Blue Zone! BCA is a collaborator on this amazing installation created by artist/advocate Benjamin Von Wong and SeaTrees. 📅Don’t forget to check out our calendar for other events related to biodiversity credits taking place today! https://lnkd.in/enVx9v25

🐟 Join us at the #ForCoral International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)'s pavilion in the blue zone for this amazing panel! BCA's Global Coordinator Manesh Lacoul and Yabanex Batista, deputy director of Global Fund for Coral Reefs will give opening remarks and share more about the collaboration between BCA and GFCR on marine biodiversity credits.

Welcome to Day 8! It's Finance Day at #COP16, and it promises to be a busy day! Whether you’re here in-person or following along virtually, we hope that you’ve had an enriching and informative experience so far. Here’s where you can find the BCA Team today: 📌𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗲𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ⏰13:00 – 14:10, International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) #ForCoral Pavilion 👉BCA and Global Fund for Coral Reefs will give opening remarks at this panel that brings together scientific, financial, standard-setter and practitioner perspectives to explore how rigorous coral biodiversity accounting and monitoring science can and should underpin high-integrity market-based approaches to finance coral reef conservation 📌𝗘𝗨 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 ⏰13:15 – 14:45, Cano Cristales CEE in Plaza 1  👉Hear from Esther Netshivhongweni on this panel about the biodiversity credits and the European Commission's engagement in this field. Biodiversity credits and certificates can promote new business models and may reward those who manage nature and biodiversity in a sustainable way. 🐾Check out the "Biodiversity Jenga"  (https://lnkd.in/edZ4v8Cm at the entrance of the Blue Zone! BCA is a collaborator on this amazing installation created by artist/advocate Benjamin Von Wong and SeaTrees. 📅Don’t forget to check out our calendar for other events related to biodiversity credits taking place today! https://lnkd.in/enVx9v25

📢𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀: 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 On Friday at #COP16, BCA had the pleasure of co-organizing a panel on metrics, measurement and comparability in the beautifully designed pavilion by CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe-. In opening remarks, CAF representative Ignacio Lorenzo Arana emphasized CAF's support for the development of nature markets and biodiversity credits as an important mechanism for sustainable development. CAF is a BCA Forum member, and we look forward to working together in the future! Here are some key insights from the panel: 🧩𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 Panelists shared about how measuring biodiversity involves navigating multiple different metrics across different ecosystems, ranging from assessing restoration in marine ecosystems by SeaTrees, to protection of jaguar habitat in the Pantanal by ERA - Ecosystem Regeneration Associates, which makes establishing a level of standardization challenging. While designing projects, it is important to consider which metrics are used and how those might align with the purpose of the project. 💻𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆 Given the complexity of measuring biodiversity, having a data ecosystem to manage different streams of information is crucial to the success of the market. Here, Nathalie Whitaker of Toha Network emphasized the importance of Indigenous Peoples and local communities having sovereignty over their data. 🌿𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 While standardization in the market around a unit might be a challenge, we still need to be able to communicate about credits in a standardized way. To that end, the BCA has been developing a discussion paper on a comparability framework for biodiversity credits, which will be released soon. Keep your eyes on this space! A recording of this event will be made available soon. Thank you to our panelists and moderator: Richard Field, University of Nottingham; Orion McCarthy, SeaTrees; Hannah Simmons, ERA - Ecosystem Regeneration Associates; Nathalie Whitaker, Toha Network; Josh Brann, Biodiversity Credit Alliance

🌎It’s Day 6 of #COP16! We hope everyone here in-person is getting some rest after the busy week, but do come join us this evening, where Global Coordinator Manesh Lacoul will be part of this event discussing how policies can enable nature markets: 📌Enabling Policies for Equitable and High-Integrity Nature Markets ⏰17:30 – 19:00, Conservation International Pavilion 📅Don’t forget to check out our calendar for other events related to biodiversity credits taking place today! https://lnkd.in/e2WGwc9y 📢Join our Telegram channel for updates and insights! https://lnkd.in/gJYPWaeS