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July 2023 |
MRV Collective is a non-profit, design and build, MRV solutions organization. We are a coalition of MRV (Measurement, Reporting & Verification) companies and organizations working to make MRV more affordable, reliable and scalable in order to accelerate investment in nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change, ecosystem collapse and biodiversity loss. |
Highlights |
Want to showcase a nature tech solution or success story at NYC Climate Week? Submit here MRVC is currently working on the third Nature Tech Report together with Nature4Climate, stay tuned for its release later this year. EU Passes Nature Restoration Law to place recovery measures on 20% of EU’s land and sea by 2030
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 | Ready to Showcase your Solution?MRV Collective will be hosting events at NYC Climate Week this September. Following the success our our London event together with Nature4Climate, we wish to deepen the understanding of what nature tech in action looks like. We are presently reviewing solutions from a cross-section of nature tech organizations covering different ecosystems and sectors including MRV, deployment, transparency and connectivity.
Has your organization already deployed a solution with results to share? |
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Summary and Key Learnings |
MRV Collective OffsiteMRVC completed an offsite this past week including meetings with key partners from conservation, finance, and development — Conservation X Labs, Systemiq, and Capital for Climate — to map out key objectives for the remainder of 2023. Stay tuned for new programs and announcements in the months to come. |
London Climate Action Week RecapHosted by Nature4Climate and MRV Collective during London Climate Action Week, this event – Nature Tech in Action – offered a platform to entrepreneurs. It drew a crowd of investors and climate professionals to learn more about the latest innovations for climate and nature.
Although each entrepreneur had only five minutes to share their vision, they conveyed the vast and varied range of technologies currently available and ready to scale. We could be, according to one speaker, entering the ‘golden age of nature restoration’. Indeed, ranging from forest biomass calculation to eDNA sequencing, these technologies hold immense potential to address many of the challenges facing the world of nature-based solutions.
Read more here. |
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Share your MRV Use CasesHave an MRV use case or story to share? We’re currently accepting submissions to be considered and expanded upon. We are especially interested to include those supporting environmental and social justice. It is critical that developing nations have access to emerging MRV technologies and local communities included as part of MRV efforts with fair revenue sharing throughout the value chain. |
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Good News |
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Welcome to the Collective! |
Welcome new member to MRV Collective. This June and July we are hosting a special members only collaboration series to begin introducing members to one another, discuss common challenges and aspirations. Already a member? Join the member collaboration series here. |
| AlboAlbo Climate, established in 2019, is an Israel-based startup that developed a novel remote sensing platform, powered by AI and satellite technology, to quantify and monitor environmental metrics in nature-based assets. Albo Climate's environmental intelligence platform delivers transparent pixel-level data, insights, and forecasts on carbon, land use, biodiversity, and climate risks. Combining geospatial monitoring and deep learning expertise, Albo Climate’s remote sensing solutions will accelerate the transition to sustainable land use and scale nature-based climate solutions in vast ecosystems worldwide. | |
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| Yard StickYard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now. By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. | |
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Up Next |
MRV Collective will be attending Bloom 23 later this year. Last year we attended a one day prototype of the event called the Nature Forum and had a great experience. If you are considering to attend, we are pleased to offer the following discount code for our membership network. |
| Bloom 23 (Oct. 24-25, San Jose, CA) is the leading event for professionals advancing strategies to protect and regenerate nature. Over the course of two interactive days, the event creates essential connections between companies, innovators and experts from leading organizations and Indigenous groups. By participating, you’ll get to explore the markets, technologies and partnerships key to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises hand-in-hand.
Learn more and use the code B23MRVC when you register for 10% off the All-Access Pass:https://bit.ly/3qbVlkv
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Challenges |
Reconciling Ex Situ & In Situ DataAccelerating the uptake of assessment and reporting requirements for Montreal-aligned target setting such as the TNFD, to be released later this year, and Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) will require high-quality, location-specific data, in particular state of nature data. The collection of such data requires clear methodologies and protocols which means organizations will face the challenge of reconciling ex situ and in situ data — a challenge which has been around for decades.
One of the longest running locations engaged in this challenge since 1985, and the world's leading model ecosystem is Gump Station on the Island of Moorena, French Polynesia supported by the Moore Foundation and part of the University of California at Berkeley.
Interested to learn more? Hear from Niel Davies, Executive Director of Gump Station about their multi-layered approach to data collection combining both ex situ and in situ data. You can also review his academic publication about “FAIR Island” an approach which honors traditional knowledge of local communities in location based data collection activities which, in addition to a scientific and data-centric focus, also addresses ethical, legal, and social issues through application of the CARE principles for indigenous data governance. |
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In the News |
News, nature data, research, MRV applications |
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