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The Biodiversity Futures Initiative (BFI) works with project developers, private sector funders and certification bodies to provide independent academic peer review to biodiversity credit-generating projects and to audit claims made against them by their funders. Their goal is to help facilitate rapid expansion of high quality biodiversity restoration and conservation projects globally, by providing the scientific rigour and independent oversight needed to build trust in an infant biodiversity claims market. The BFI review process involves two review stages: ◻️ Stage 1 Reviews - Undertaken at the start of a project and designed to ensure that factors such as choice of metrics, proposed methodologies to quantify metrics and sampling strategies are appropriate. ◻️ Stage 2 Reviews - Completed at each verification event when the developer wants to make a claim about how much biodiversity gain has been achieved. The diagram below illustrates where the BFI reviews sit within a biodiversity project development pipeline. To learn more, read our recent blog on the BFI here: https://lnkd.in/eWJ72N8u

Heidi.news recently discussed biodiversity credits with rePLANET CEO, Dr Tim Coles. ◻️The article explores the complexities of the nascent market and why we need an agreed biodiversity unit. ◻️Wallacea Trust biodiversity units of gain that accompany carbon credits, increasing their quality and value are being sold by rePLANET. ◻️Next steps are selling projects that only deliver on biodiversity - this is key for restoration and protection of our carbon poor ecosystems e.g. coral reefs and grasslands. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ddpjYby4

📣 A new rePLANET blog has just been published on our website 📣 'The Biodiversity Futures Initiative and Its Role in Certifying Biodiversity Credit Projects' The article dives into: ◻ The need for independent quality control of biodiversity credits to increase buyer confidence in investments🖋 ◻ The Biodiversity Futures Initiative (BFI) and its purpose🐝 ◻ The BFI's academic peer-review for external verification of claims - ensuring optimal design and monitoring of nature conservation and restoration interventions🌱 ◻ The BFI two-stage review process and how it ties into the project development pipeline 📃 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eWJ72N8u Learn more about the BFI here: https://lnkd.in/eVkw3MQq

We are pleased to share SLR is partnering with rePLANET, a ‘for purpose’ company, driving large scale ecological restoration and protection through private sector funding. SLR and rePlanet have been building a strong working relationship over a number of years including collaborating on a flagship voluntary bio-credit project in the Scottish Highlands. This partnership expands on SLR’s existing nature-based solution skills, allowing clients access to rePLANET’s nature positive target expertise. You can read more about rePLANET, our partnership, and the benefits this brings for our clients: https://lnkd.in/eHc75ZaV #MakingSustainabilityHappen #Ecology #Biodiversity #Restoration

📣rePLANET agrees a collaborative partnership with SLR Consulting📣 We are pleased to share rePLANET is partnering with SLR Consulting a global sustainability consultancy who work with clients to address some of the world's most complex sustainability issues.   ▫️SLR Consulting as a sustainability expert, with over 3,500 staff worldwide, has the reach and depth of skills to advise companies on their carbon, nature and biodiversity strategies, as well as many other related aspects including approaches to nature-related: governance, impacts and dependencies, and risks and opportunities. SLR’s 45+ technical disciplines including ecology, biodiversity, water, landscape, heritage, and GIS allow SLR Consulting to offer a one stop option for clients interested in biodiversity, natural capital, and sustainability more broadly. ▫️SLR Consulting and rePLANET have been building a strong working relationship over a number of years including collaborating on a flagship voluntary bio-credit project in the Scottish Highlands. This partnership expands on SLR’s existing nature-based solution skills, allowing clients access to rePLANET’s nature positive target expertise. Examples of where this partnership will benefit SLRs clients include: ▫️Companies looking to quantify the biodiversity benefits of their offset or insetting projects using a robust methodology that will be comparable among projects using the same methodology globally. ▫️Companies seeking to design an insetting ecosystem restoration project to maximize their carbon and biodiversity gains.   The rePLANET Nature Consultancy Team are already working with a number of clients to design and implement robust biodiversity monitoring methods in line with the Wallacea Trust Methodology to establish comprehensive, long-term biodiversity monitoring programmes. ▫️These programmes enable organisations to track and report both their positive and negative impacts on biodiversity over time. By doing so, it ensures compliance with emerging disclosure regulations and supports informed decision-making surrounding land management practices. ▫️rePLANET looks forward to expanding its portfolio of clients with SLR Consulting, continuing to drive forward innovative and effective sustainability solutions. For further information please contact: Max Bodmer -  Nature Programme Manager - [email protected]

📣 We are expanding the rePLANET team again! 📣 We have just opened the recruitment process for a new member of the Technical Team. If you are interested in an exciting career where you can use your project management and Spanish communication skills to support large scale ecosystem restoration, please do not hesitate to apply! #newjobs #forestryjobs #conservationjobs #ecosystemrestorationjobsm #latinamerica

It's World Mangrove Day! Mangroves are incredibly valuable ecosystems, offering many ecosystem services such as improved water quality and storm surge protection, the forests also sequester significant amounts of carbon and are incredibly biodiverse, hosting 1500+ species of fauna and flora. Despite the intrinsic, environmental and socioeconomic value of mangroves, IUCN global assessment has revealed that over half of the worlds forests are at risk of collapse. Factors such as climate change, deforestation and pollution are the cause for this. Mangrove protection and restoration is vital for ensuring this ecosystem survives and thrives in the future. rePLANET have therefore developed several projects that restore mangrove forests, one of which is in Indonesia, click here to read more about its targets: https://lnkd.in/eCdiYkyX #WorldMangroveDay

💡What a great couple of days in Lincoln - the NbS conference was jam packed with informative presentations, interesting questions and debate. Key Conference Takeaways: 🌳Selling high quality carbon credits bundled with quantified units of biodiversity gain is an effective method for channelling finance into nature restoration 🌿Despite the hit avoided loss projects have taken from recent scandals, we cannot ignore the importance of protection not just restoration and so we need to find a way to rebuild trust in the avoided credits market 🌱Philanthropic investment into biodiversity credit generating projects may be key for kickstarting the market. We must also focus on building confidence in the nascent voluntary biodiversity credit markets 🍃We need clarity and unity within the market and a clear definition of biodiversity unit of gain will help with this Thank you to Julian Clifton and the University of Lincoln for organising and hosting this brilliant event. Pictured below rePLANET Nature Programme Manager, Dr Max Bodmer, discussing the challenges of creating low cost and scientifically robust biodiversity baselines on the AI panel.

Yesterday the first day of the Lincoln NbS Conference wrapped up with an inspiring ‘Examples of Private Sector Funded Nature-based Projects’ panel. rePLANET CEO, Dr Tim Coles, discussed several of our projects. Examples included our carbon funded reforestation and rotational grazing project in Costa Rica and the biodiversity and carbon project that will restore Taransay, the largest uninhabited Scottish island. The panel was chaired by Louis de Montpellier and we also heard from several other panellists: Charlie Burrell - Nattergal Ltd, Martin Schaefer - Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco, Benjamin Leutner - The Landbanking Group.

The Second Annual NbS Conference using Carbon and Biodiversity Credit Funding kicked off in Lincoln today and many key topics have already been addressed. rePLANET Director of Strategy, Dr Dan Exton, delivered an interesting presentation on the Wallacea Trust methodology this afternoon, contributing towards no the ‘Biodiversity Credit Methodologies’ panel. The panel was chaired by Tim Sunderland and we also heard from Joseph Anderson - UK Peatland Programme, Paul Jepson - CreditNature and Sara Eppel - Nature & People.