Biodiversity Indexing Service

生物多样性索引服务

• 批准号: NE/J017892/1
• 负责人: David Gunn
• 金额: $ 0.77万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FJ017892%2F1
• 关键词: Biodiversity; Indexing; Service

Globally we continue to exploit our finite environmental space and environmental impact is an increasingly important issue in most human activities.Regulatory requirements and the need to be seen as sustainable have changed the behaviour in the commercial and public sector. Significant resources are being applied to mitigating environmental impact and there is a need to quantify these benefits in some demonstrable way.This proposal aims to assess the potential application of a Biodiversity Indexing method that could be applied to specific locations such as large retail developments and open cast mining. The Biodiversity Index will give an easily understood number indicating the current biodiversity level relative to the sites original untouched biodiversity. This will allow organisations to clearly quantify their biodiversity impact and more importantly, demonstrated the benefits of their environmental mitigation and remediation activities. Carbon footprinting and carbon offsetting have become a key factor in the development of a low carbon economy, but the lack of fungibility in biodiversity assessment has prevented the development of similar activities. There is a high volume and high value market opportunity for a biodiversity indexing service, especially in the large commercial sectors where increasing resources are spent on environmental impact mitigation.The intellectual property behind this project is derived from an Msc thesis submitted by David Jarrett at the University of Edinburgh. There is no requirement to protect the IP involved, the intention is to eventually roll this service out as a cross sector standard widely available to service providers. The commercial opportunities are in being first in market and in the volume market having the potential to support a large number of service providers. This project will enable David Jarrett to document the methodology and produce marketing materials and presentations, that can be used to personally pitch the concept to the key users he has identified in his market research. A third party market consultant has not been used as the uniqueness and cross sector complexity of applications is best presented by someone with an in depth understanding of the method and its application. A Follow-on-Fund application may be made, although it should be noted that Ecometrica Ltd. an Edinburgh environmental consultancy and carbon footprinting company has expressed an interest in commercialising the concept if the results of the Pathfinder study show clear market interest.

在全球范围内，我们继续利用有限的环境空间和环境影响是大多数人类活动的越来越重要的问题。监管要求和被视为可持续性的需求改变了商业和公共部门的行为。大量资源正在用于缓解环境影响，并且需要以某种可证明的方式量化这些好处。该提案旨在评估可以应用于大型零售开发项目和开放式铸造采矿等特定地点的生物多样性索引方法的潜在应用。生物多样性指数将提供一个易于理解的数字，这表明相对于原始未触及的生物多样性的站点，当前的生物多样性水平。这将使组织能够清楚地量化其生物多样性的影响，更重要的是，证明了他们的环境缓解和修复活动的好处。碳足迹和碳抵消已成为低碳经济发展的关键因素，但是在生物多样性评估中缺乏函数的影响阻止了类似活动的发展。生物多样性索引服务有很大的数量和高价值的市场机会，尤其是在大型商业领域，在大型商业领域中，将资源越来越多地用于缓解环境影响。该项目背后的知识产权来自爱丁堡大学的戴维·贾雷特（David Jarrett）提交的MSC论文。无需保护所涉及的IP，目的是最终将此服务作为广泛可用于服务提供商可用的跨部门标准。商业机会是在市场上排名第一，并且在数量市场中有可能支持大量服务提供商。该项目将使大卫·贾瑞特（David Jarrett）能够记录方法论并生产营销材料和演示文稿，这些方法可用于将概念个人推荐给他在市场研究中确定的关键用户。第三方市场顾问尚未被用作应用程序的独特性和跨部门的复杂性，最好由对该方法及其应用深入了解的人提供。尽管应该指出的是Ecometrica Ltd. Ecometrica Ltd.，但Edinburgh环境咨询公司和碳足迹公司可能会提出后续资金申请。