| | | September 2023 | The MRV Collective is a non-profit, design and build, industry coalition advancing strategic applications of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and close the $700 billion dollar annual nature-finance gap. | Highlights | NYC Climate Week, Nature Tech in Action — RSVP for Livestream Here and schedule a meeting with Gilad Goren, MRVC Executive Director Video: Is voluntary action enough? with Tim Christophersen, VP of Climate Action at Salesforce Article: Land tenure for Indigenous People and Local Communities Member Programming Series: One Earth, One Tree Planted, Nature Metrics, Nature Finance, and MURAL led by Daniel Swid, MRVC Head of Ecosystem More Maps More Problems: Indigenous Struggles over Being Seen
| | Join us for Nature Tech in Action!MRV Collective is hosting Nature Tech in Action, Case Studies from the Field at NYC Climate Week together with Nature4Climate. The event is presently over capacity so we’ve got a livestream so everyone can tune in.
Gilad Goren, MRV Collective Executive Director, will be in NYC co-hosting this event. Want to schedule a meeting? Contact here
Speakers include, Shyla Raghav, Co-founder, TIME CO2.com; Siddarth Shrikanth, Investor - Industrial and Natural Climate Solutions, Just Climate; Marion Verles, CEO, SustainCERT; Meghan Hertel, Director North America, Landlife; Kat Bruce, Founder, NatureMetrics; Jonathan Kim, VP Climate Impact, Terraformation; Manuel Pinuela, Co-founder and CEO, Cultivol Beatrice Moulianitaki, CCO, Meridia; Chrissy Durkin, VP Growth & Impact, Rainforest Connection; Thomas Elliott, CEO, Restor; Shyla Raghav, Co-founder, TIME CO2.com; Gilad Goren, Executive Director MRV Collective |
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| | | Summary and Key Learnings | | Video: Is Voluntary Action Enough?Tim Christophersen, VP of Climate Action at Salesforce shares that the shift from voluntary action to compliance is changing the landscape for the private sector with respect to climate and biodiversity protection.
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), a voluntary disclosure framework launching next week at New York Climate Week marks an important beginning of this shift expected to provide guidance for organizations to begin accounting for their nature impact and chart a new path across the rapidly changing private sector landscape with the help of emerging MRV technologies such as those offered by our members. Compliance is expected to follow suit and has already begun in Europe. | Land Tenure for Indigenous People and Local Communities | |
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| Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) protect a staggering 80% of our planet's biodiversity, yet receive a mere 17% of the necessary support. Our sector intelligence unit examines 3 themes including funding models that aim to bridge this gap such as the voluntary biodiversity market, payment for ecosystem services, and conservation basic income. It also examines why land tenure is a linchpin for successful conservation projects and how it benefits both IPLCs and project developers. | | 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 | | | Member Programming Kicks OffDuring this series, led by MRV Collective’s founding member and Head of Ecosystem, Daniel Swid, participants will explore a range of MRV applications, innovations, and challenges with presenters from One Earth, OneTreePlanted, NatureMetrics, NatureFinance, and MURAL. Sessions include forthcoming opportunities, time to exchange and announce your own updates, meet fellow members, learn about the TNFD nature data facility, and more! | |
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| Welcome new members! | | Carbon Rewild
Biodiversity Monitoring Made Easy. We offer Bioacoustic monitoring services to monitor wildlife and measure biodiversity change over time. | |
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| | nadarNadar is an earth observation startup harnessing satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to increase transparency and quality in natural resource monitoring.Our scalable MRV solution allows forest ecosystems to be assessed faster, more easily, and more accurately on a global scale.
Nadar's solution supports project developers, landowners, and analysts to assess nature-based solutions with trust to help protect nature on Earth. | |
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| | TreeswiftTreeswift builds and deploys forestry technologies to produce transparent, verifiable forest inventories to scale. We work with TIMOs, REITs, landowners, state agencies and both compliance and voluntary forest carbon project developers across the U.S. to provide timber and carbon cruising services and data analysis powered by our first-of-its-kind robotic and machine learning technology.
Treeswift’s intelligent drones and signature terrestrial backpack cruising system are used to collect data from beneath the canopy using state-of-the-art suite of sensors which combine LiDAR and high-resolution imagery. | |
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| | VycarbVycarb is a measurement service for carbon in water. With a first-of-its-kind, fully autonomous, real-time measurement system for all inorganic carbon in water, Vycarb empowers groups from shellfish farms to conservation projects to carbon removal suppliers to understand, manage, and report carbon in the largest, yet most enigmatic, carbon pool - water.
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| | PonterraPonterra is a commercial developer and operator of large-scale biodiversity restoration carbon projects. We specialize in restoring privately-owned lands, and we have successfully launched our first proof of concept in Panama. Our project in Panama is restoring 10,000 hectares of land to uplift biodiversity and promote carbon sequestration using native species. We've set an ambitious goal to channel $1 billion into restoration efforts by 2040. | |
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| | NatureFinanceThe Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub is a Swiss non-profit platform hosted by NatureFinance that was launched at COP27 with the backing of multilateral development banks, the United Nations, conservation organizations, and financial market associations, with the aim of scaling up the market for KPI-linked sovereign financing solutions.
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| | Your OrganizationMRV Collective members enjoy special benefits including thematic community programming, special events, research & development collaboration opportunities, sector intelligence, and industry insights.
MRV Providers, mission aligned organizations, corporations, financial institutions, and individuals are now welcome to apply. | |
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| Up Next | The Twenty-fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) meets in Nairobi between 15–19 October 2023. Topics to be discussed will further progress on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Some topics to be covered includes: a monitoring, inputs that should inform the global review of collective implementation progress, approaches to identifying scientific and technical needs to support the implementation, plant conservation, invasive species, and more. — Click here to review.
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 to our subscribers and 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 | More Maps More Problems: Indigenous Struggles over Being SeenThe Data Dialogues podcast brings together multiple perspectives to look at a single environmental data issue. This season focuses on Indonesia’s OneMap policy: a decade-long, ongoing effort to resolve land conflict with data. Host Madhuri Karak speaks to everyone from indigenous elders to multi-species ethnographers about their experiences with mapping exercises to delve into the limitations of modern cartography and indigenous struggles over being seen. | | | In the News | News, nature data, research, MRV applications | | Enjoyed this mail? Send to a friend. Have a comment or suggestion? Drop us a line. | | |
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