What is a Unit of Nature? Measurement Challenges in the Emerging Biodiversity Credit Market
In person and online (on Zoom)
There is growing interest in developing generalisable, standardised measurements of biodiversity, in particular to help the business and financial sectors to quantify biodiversity impacts. In our recent paper, we created a framework to explain how such units are defined in the rapidly growing voluntary biodiversity credits market. In this talk, I will present this framework and use it to discuss the many measurement challenges that are faced in trying to reduce something as complex as biodiversity to a single unit, and what this might mean for biodiversity credit markets.
Date: 24 February 2025, 13:00
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: East Lab, Environmental Change Institute
Speaker: Dr Hannah Wauchope (University of Edinburgh)
Organising department: Environmental Change Institute
Organiser: Andrey Levitskiy (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: andrey.levitskiy@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Host: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Part of: NatureFinance@Oxford Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiversitynetwork
Audience: Public
Editor: Andrey Levitskiy