Deep Dive: Biodiversity Metrics
Ecosystem metrics enable spatial and temporal changes to be tracked, and can indicate where interventions might be needed to protect or restore an ecosystem. Whilst such metrics have been used by scientists for many decades, there is increasing interest in how they might be used to underpin the establishment of biodiversity credits or units. In turn, these could create a corporate finance stream for nature conservation, similar to the voluntary carbon market (VCM).
Here are some key takeaways from the report
There is no single right approach to measuring biodiversity. Natural ecosystems are complex and varied and therefore hard to measure and compare.
The lack of a single global biodiversity metric poses a major challenge to galvanising the private sector finance required to conserve, restore and protect biodiversity.
In this report we review the different techniques for gathering data on biodiversity and the various metrics these observations can be used to create.
Contents
01 Introduction
02 Measuring biodiversity
03 Turning measurements into metrics
04 Conclusion