Monitoring biodiversity is critical to understanding impacts, informing conservation actions, and tracking progress towards conservation goals. Recently, guidelines have been provided by the Task Force for Nature-based Financial Disclosures (TNFD), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and others for assessing impacts on biodiversity and the risks from biodiversity loss. However, there is limited specificity on what and how to measure and monitor biodiversity and thus a clear need for scientifically informed and technology-enabled solutions. Therefore, we formed a partnership to do just that: to develop a biodiversity monitoring solution that integrates ecological models and theory with data science.
In response to the global decline in biodiversity, the Analytics Lab at CSP partnered with technical teams at bp and Microsoft to develop tools to help address the challenge of monitoring and restoring biodiversity. Guided by the adage “you cannot manage what you don’t measure,” our collaboration aims to develop innovative solutions to better measure, monitor, and steward biodiversity.
Read more about the collaboration on LinkedIn here; read our technical report here; and enjoy the video below!