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Catalysing the emergence of a biodiversity stewardship credit market

促进生物多样性管理信贷市场的出现

基本信息

批准号：
NE/W00965X/1
负责人：
Axel Rossberg
金额：
$ 7.63万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FW00965X%2F1
关键词：
Catalysing emergence biodiversity stewardship credit

项目摘要

Human activities are putting Life on Earth under tremendous pressure. Through direct exploitation of species, conversion of their habitats for new uses, climate change and other causes, more and more species are being threatened with extinction. Many species, the outcomes of millions of years of evolution, have gone extinct already. They are lost forever. There is broad public consensus that this wave of extinctions should be stopped, and yet many of us are unknowingly contributing to it. Through the products we buy and the ways in which we and or our pension fund invests our money, we may be fuelling business activity that contributes to this destruction. The global financial industry has therefore come together in the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to help everybody understand better how companies and investments affect nature in both positive and negative ways and how they in turn depend on functioning natural ecosystems. The idea is to define a few metrics that measure these impacts and dependencies and allow us to evaluate and compare different business and investment opportunities, so we can make informed choices.However, there is a problem: while we know that globally the populations of many species are declining, it is not easy to decide which local measures are most effective in reducing the resulting extinction risk. Moreover, it may be unavoidable to modify even more habitats than we have already, for example to build solar farms or to grow plants that rapidly absorb carbon from the atmosphere. We can try to balance the resulting pressure on biodiversity by giving species more room to grow at other places. But how much of this is necessary to reduce extinction risks overall? What metrics should the TNFD use to quantify impacts on risks to biodiversity?This Fellowship aims to help answer these questions. Setting other qualities of Nature aside, it focuses specifically on extinction risk and how to quantify the impacts of businesses on this risk. Use of a simple metric that has recently been proposed for this purpose is trialled in practice. Participants in the TNFD process will learn about the new metric and carefully compare it with other available options. Eventually, choices are proposed and documentation and scenarios for the practical use of these metrics developed. In facilitating this process, the Fellowship will assure that the powerful framework developed by the TNFD does not overlook protecting the rich diversity of species on Earth that we have inherited, even when other aspects of Nature may appear more important and more useful to us now.

人类活动使地球上的生命承受着巨大的压力。由于对物种的直接利用、将其栖息地转变为新用途、气候变化和其他原因，越来越多的物种正面临灭绝的威胁。许多物种，数百万年进化的结果，已经灭绝。他们永远迷失了。公众普遍认为应该停止这波灭绝浪潮，但我们中的许多人却在不知不觉中助长了这一浪潮。通过我们购买的产品以及我们和/或我们的养老基金投资资金的方式，我们可能正在助长导致这种破坏的商业活动。因此，全球金融业聚集在与自然相关的财务披露工作组（TNFD）中，帮助大家更好地了解公司和投资如何以积极和消极的方式影响自然，以及它们反过来如何依赖正常运转的自然生态系统。我们的想法是定义一些衡量这些影响和依赖性的指标，使我们能够评估和比较不同的商业和投资机会，以便我们做出明智的选择。然而，存在一个问题：虽然我们知道全球许多物种的数量正在下降，但要确定哪些当地措施最有效地减少由此产生的灭绝风险并不容易。此外，可能不可避免地要改变比我们已经拥有的更多的栖息地，例如建造太阳能发电场或种植能够快速吸收大气中碳的植物。我们可以尝试通过在其他地方为物种提供更多生长空间来平衡由此产生的生物多样性压力。但要减少总体灭绝风险，需要采取多少措施呢？ TNFD 应使用哪些指标来量化对生物多样性风险的影响？该奖学金旨在帮助回答这些问题。抛开自然的其他特性不谈，它特别关注灭绝风险以及如何量化企业对这种风险的影响。最近为此目的提出的简单指标的使用已在实践中进行了试验。 TNFD 流程的参与者将了解新指标，并仔细将其与其他可用选项进行比较。最终，提出了选择，并开发了这些指标的实际使用的文档和场景。在促进这一进程的过程中，该奖学金将确保 TNFD 制定的强大框架不会忽视保护我们所继承的地球上丰富的物种多样性，即使自然的其他方面现在对我们来说可能显得更重要和更有用。