Giving Compass' Take:

• At GreenBiz, Colleen Beaty talks with Mike Gill about how biodiversity indicators are improving knowledge and effectiveness of conservation efforts.

• How is useful data essential in devising innovative conservation methods? What are you doing to support this kind of data collection?

• Learn about some of the benefits of improving biodiversity.

We heard from Mike Gill at NatureServe, who shared with us the importance of biodiversity indicators and how companies can access information about these indicators to guide decision-making about their own conservation initiatives.

Biodiversity indicators tell us about the health, integrity and trajectory of biodiversity, such as:

  • Pressures or threats on biodiversity, such as trends in land and water use, habitat loss or invasive species
  • The state of species and ecosystems, such as the health of species or integrity of ecosystems
  • The conservation response, such as the protection of important biodiversity areas
  • Benefits to people, such as the ecosystem services provided

Corporations concerned with aligning their conservation activities and sustainability goals with regional conservation priorities can benefit from the flexible provisioning of continually updated and scalable biodiversity indicators. Through such easily accessible and flexible intelligence on the latest status and trends in biodiversity, corporations can ensure that their own conservation actions are optimally aligned with broader national and global conservation mandates and flexibly visualize and download scaled indicators to serve their own reporting processes (CSR reports, voluntary contributions towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and Sustainable Development Goals).

Using the BIP Dashboards as a foundation, NatureServe is collaborating with UNEP-WCMC and others to develop a new global post-2020 Target Tracker to support effective and transparent implementation of the new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The tool aims to transform the process of tracking and reporting outcomes from a backward, periodic one to a continual, forward-looking and predictive process.This platform will allow Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and those focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, a means to continually track progress towards national and global 2030 Targets, identify problem areas and areas of success, and better inform pathways toward successful achievement of the new targets.

Read the full article about improving conservation in biodiversity by Colleen Beaty at GreenBiz.