SLR Consulting Europe Strategic Lead: Ecology & Biodiversity. Director and ecological training provider - UKHab Ltd
This tool (not yet launched, so no one can actually review it yet and say with any certainty whether it does what it says) has certainly generated some comment and debate. I'll reserve judgement until I see it, but will make an observation from a purely UK perspective. The tool states it uses the IUCN Ecosystem Typology as a starting point for its metric. The IUCN typology takes a very different approach to classifying ecosystems compared to UKHab and the classifications upon which UKHab is derived (e.g. UKBAP and Annex 1). There is a substantial divergence of approach to classification even at the broadest scale. That doesn't make one approach better than the other, only to say that I would caution anyone converting habitat data using UK habitat classifications into the IUCN typology without due consideration to the differences. If anyone is brave enough to think about a correspondence between #UKHab and the IUCN Typology, please do talk to ukhab.org before you start.
📌 Coming soon: Ramboll’s Global Biodiversity Metric 🌎 🌵 Ramboll is developing a global biodiversity metric #GBM to quantify and measure potential impacts to global habitats. The free and open-source metric is a major step toward a common standard for biodiversity assessment around the world. 🎯 The GBM is intended for organisations, businesses, governments, and other land-managing entities with interests that extend into countries that don’t currently have a national metric, as well as those looking to assign biodiversity values across assets globally. 🌳 But perhaps more importantly, the GBM will provide the ability for any organisation to assess biodiversity value for defining action plans, setting and monitoring science-based targets #SBTN, evidencing green claims, disclosures and reporting, such as #CSRD and #TNFD. ❣️ The GBM is based on the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology, and adapted from the Natural England Biodiversity Metric, providing a common basis for dialogue with stakeholders on the complexity of ecosystems and addressing biodiversity loss. ☝️ The GBM will be launched at the UN Biodiversity Conference, #COP16, in Cali, Colombia, in October 2024. For more information contact Daniel Rockefeller #biodiversity #LetsCloseTheGap Sara Copp Franz, Rodolfo Jaffé, Vikki Patton, Molly McDermott, Israel Del Toro, Matt Dreimiller, Sydney Kruse, Samantha Deacon, Lis Castillo Nelis, Therese Fosholt Moe, Saara Vauramo, Martin Kielland, Meit Öberg, Giorgia Quadri, Lars Tappert, Aloysius Teo, Suhas Fuladi, Chris Ryan, Ferran Climent i Cot
Demystifying nature for business
2moSophus zu Ermgassen