Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Resources
Resources
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure)
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a tool to help users better understand and visualise the impact of environmental change on the... Read More
ENCORE was developed by the Natural Capital Finance Alliance in partnership with UNEP-WCMC and was financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and... Read More
Primary Functions:Make the business case for investing in natural infrastructure, including healthy river basins and wetlandsThe Natural Infrastructure for Business... Read More
Use this framework to discover and document climate hazards, then develop workable solutions to lower climate-related risks.Looking for climate data? Need to compile a... Read More
Ecosystem Services Identification & Inventory (ESII) Tool lets people understand the benefits that nature provides and incorporate the value of nature into decision... Read More
From trash to premium. Together with leading experts, labs and material innovators we give plastic trash a new life and turn it into yarn and fabric for the fashion and... Read More
The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) provides access to globally authoritative information on Protected Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas and the IUCN Red List of... Read More
Discarded fishing nets continuously kill sea life when left in the oceans, but they become impactful messengers for the cause when recycled. After being retrieved from high... Read More
The Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) is a rapid, low-cost, participatory valuation tool designed to be used by non-experts for assessing the... Read More
The WBCSD has developed a certain number of tools, methodologies or principles that aim to support member companies’ sustainability journey.These different tools are... Read More
The Resource Investment Optimization System (RIOS) supports the design of cost-effective investments in watershed services, providing a standardized, science-based approach... Read More
LEFT is a web-based decision support tool to help industry evaluate patterns of relative ecological value across a landscape to inform land use planning and minimize... Read More
OPAL is a tool for quantifying the impacts of development and the value of potential protection or restoration activities to biodiversity and ecosystem services. OPAL... Read More
Engage the Chain overviews the environmental and social risks and impacts of 8 commonly sourced agricultural commodities: beef, corn, dairy, fiber-based packaging, palm... Read More
ARIES redefines ecosystem services assessment and valuation in decision-making. The ARIES approach to mapping benefits, beneficiaries, and service flows is a powerful new... Read More
