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Species Threat Abatement and Restoration

NbI’s Analytics model addresses the urgent need for high-integrity, evidence-based biodiversity and ecosystem service management approaches, enabling users to make data-driven decisions and track measurable outcomes.

24 September 2024
Nature-Based Insights Founder Honoured with Prestigious Marsh Award for Ecology

Nature-Based Insights Founder Honoured with Prestigious Marsh Award for Ecology

Professor Nathalie Seddon , a non-executive director at Nature-Based Insights, has been awarded the prestigious Marsh Award for Ecology by the British Ecological Society.

24 September 2024
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Evaluating biodiversity risks in Ecuador

In this initial project phase, NbI helped to identify and evaluate potential biodiversity risks (ECOM’s Cocoa Sustainability Report, 2024). For each area, NbI extracted geospatial data from a range of best-in-class global and local datasets.

27 August 2024
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Nature-based Insetting

Building on existing guidelines, this paper explores the current definitions of insetting characteristics of high-integrity insetting and highlights the need for collective action on developing a rigorous, standardised, accountable insetting framework.

22 July 2024
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In the Field: The Importance of In-situ Data Collection.

In the field of ecology, field-based measurements are a fundamental method for gathering data.  Field surveys are often the best way to obtain high-resolution, accurate, and spatially explicit data.

17 July 2024
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Defining Biodiversity

Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) are a set of standardised parameters identified as key indicators for monitoring, researching, and forecasting biodiversity changes at various scales, from local to global

11 July 2024
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Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

“Landscape approaches” provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals.

15 March 2024
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Tesco supported by Nature-based Insights during Global Canopy’s 2023 programme to pilot the TNFD LEAP approach      

As a participant in Global Canopy’s 2023 programme to pilot the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures’ (TNFD) LEAP approach, Tesco has taken proactive steps to assess and mitigate its impact on nature, with support from Nature-Based Insights.

14 March 2024
Bringing together Biodiversity Metrics

Bringing together Biodiversity Metrics

Biodiversity indicators measure progress towards these global biodiversity goals. Yet the choice of biodiversity indicators is complex: consensus and clear guidance on which biodiversity criteria, indicators, and metrics to choose is urgently needed.

12 March 2024
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Emerging Nature Regulatory Frameworks

Forward-thinking organisations are now looking to understand their impacts on nature and explore actions they can take to align with global goals for nature. Many companies will be subject to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) from 2025 onwards; and to emerging regulations in the coming years.

29 February 2024