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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

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Summary and Key Learnings

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.

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Good News

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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.
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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.

Challenges

More Maps More Problems: Indigenous Struggles over Being Seen

The 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.

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