The Nature Recovery Financial Allocation and Monitoring Service

金融利益相关者、当地自然恢复战略（LNRS）和LNRS合作伙伴都想知道如何最好地在针对生物多样性净收益、野生化和自然洪水管理等问题的项目之间分配资金。市场上没有任何一种服务可以帮助这些利益相关者在为这些项目分配资金的决策过程中（或者如何监控项目实施后回报给环境的价值）。尽管这些利益相关者有不同的动机，但他们通常会在不同的时间一起工作、谈判和游说对方。同样，生物多样性净收益、野生动物回归和自然洪水管理在这一领域都是相对较新的概念，需要在广泛的利益相关者群体中不断反馈和发展财政分配和监测过程，以推动和维持标准和投资效率。因此，一项包含多层考虑的财政分配和监测服务将是证明内部和外部投资的合理性的基础，这些投资能够平衡自然和财政的需要以及更广泛的可持续性要求- -例如就业。这个问题本质上是空间的，需要一个空间决策支持工具来允许对环境有益的项目进行战略投资。该项目将开发并展示一种将气候和环境因素纳入金融服务部门的创新解决方案。我们称这项服务为自然恢复财政分配和监测服务（NR-FAMS）。Sparkgeo是一家地理空间服务公司，拥有一支全球开发团队，他们是设计、部署和使用云和开放技术的专家。Sparkgeo英国团队由具有软件、地理、地球观测和地理空间技能的员工组成。Sparkgeo创建了“粘合代码”，使不同的地理空间数据能够满足个人客户的特定需求。Sparkgeo在将遗留数据转换为现代机器可读目录，将不同数据源规范化为公共开放标准以及为用户提供大量原始和派生数据方面具有丰富的经验。Sparkgeo UK将与HSW （Hill, Stone & wood Ltd）合作，后者将为金融部门用户和业务发展提供通道。Sparkgeo将专注于技术方面。

Financial stakeholders, the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) and LNRS partners all want to know how best to allocate funds between projects targeting issues such as biodiversity net gain, rewilding, and natural flood management.There is no single service on the market that helps such stakeholders with their decision process on the allocation of monies for these projects (or how to monitor the value returned to the environment following implementation). Though these stakeholders have different motives they will often be working together, negotiating, and lobbying each other at different times. Equally, biodiversity net gain, rewilding, and natural flood management are all relatively new concepts in this space and constant feedback and evolution of the financial allocation and monitoring process will be needed among the broad group of stakeholders to push and maintain standards and investment effectiveness. Thus, a financial allocation and monitoring service that incorporates many layers of consideration will be fundamental for justifying internal and external investments that balance the needs of nature and finance and broader sustainability requirements - such as jobs. The problem is inherently spatial, and a spatial decision support tool is required to allow strategic investment in environmentally beneficial projects. This project will develop and demonstrate an innovative solution that integrates climate and environmental factors into the financial services sector. We call this service the Nature Recovery Financial Allocation and Monitoring Service (NR-FAMS).Sparkgeo is a geospatial services company that maintains a global team of developers who are specialists at designing, deploying and using cloud and open technologies. The Sparkgeo UK team comprises staff with software, geography, Earth observation and geospatial skills. Sparkgeo creates the "glue code" that makes different geospatial data work for the particular needs of individual clients. Sparkgeo has experience in transforming legacy data into modern machine readable catalogues, normalising different sources of data to common open standards, and serving very large amounts of raw and derived data to users.Sparkgeo UK will collaborate with HSW (Hill, Stone & wood Ltd) who will provide access to the financial sector users and business development. Sparkgeo will focus on the technical aspects.