Biodiversity Indexing Service

在全球范围内，我们继续开发我们有限的环境空间，环境影响是大多数人类活动中日益重要的问题。监管要求和被视为可持续发展的需要改变了商业和公共部门的行为。大量资源正在用于减轻对环境的影响，有必要以某种可证明的方式量化这些效益。该提案旨在评估生物多样性索引方法的潜在应用，该方法可应用于大型零售开发和露天采矿等特定地点。生物多样性指数将给出一个容易理解的数字，表明当前的生物多样性水平相对于该地点原始未受影响的生物多样性。这将使组织能够清楚地量化其对生物多样性的影响，更重要的是，展示其环境缓解和补救活动的好处。碳足迹和碳抵消已成为发展低碳经济的关键因素，但生物多样性评估缺乏可替代性阻碍了类似活动的发展。生物多样性指数服务具有大量和高价值的市场机会，特别是在将越来越多的资源用于减轻环境影响的大型商业部门。该项目背后的知识产权源自爱丁堡大学（University of Edinburgh）大卫•贾勒特（David Jarrett）提交的一篇硕士论文。没有要求保护所涉及的知识产权，其目的是最终将这项服务作为跨部门标准推出，广泛提供给服务提供商。商业机会在于率先进入市场，并在批量市场中拥有支持大量服务提供商的潜力。这个项目将使David Jarrett能够记录方法并制作营销材料和演示文稿，这些材料和演示文稿可用于亲自向他在市场研究中确定的关键用户推销概念。没有使用第三方市场顾问，因为应用程序的独特性和跨部门复杂性最好由对该方法及其应用有深入了解的人来呈现。可能会提出后续基金申请，但应该指出的是，如果探路者研究的结果显示出明确的市场兴趣，爱丁堡环境咨询和碳足迹公司Ecometrica有限公司表示有兴趣将这一概念商业化。

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.