the biodiversity consultancy

The Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd is a small consultancy based in Cambridge, UK, specialising in biodiversity management. We provide biodiversity advice, technical capacity and fieldwork assistance to the private, public and civil society sectors alike. The consultancy aims to bring rigorous, creative, real-world solutions to emerging biodiversity issues such as biodiversity offsets, biodiversity indicators and bespoke biodiversity impact assessment. We help develop policy in these areas with international NGOs, banks and multinational companies; and we provide technical advice and on-the-ground capacity to implement programmes to solve biodiversity challenges in an innovative way. We have close links with international NGOs and scientific institutions, and specialise in the management of biodiversity issues to bring state-of-the-art experience to help developers - whether public or private - manage biodiversity responsibly and improve their environmental performance. In this way, the consultancy holds a niche within the rapidly growing field of business and biodiversity by providing expertise at a level which is not generally available within larger environmental consultancies. We exercise a careful due diligence process and only work with clients who demonstrate a real motivation for quality and leadership.

 Toolkits and services include:

 Business and Biodiversity

• Biodiversity management services for the private and public sector - policy, strategy, design and implementation of programmes and projects
• Corporate biodiversity policy and strategy
• Biodiversity offsets – design and implementation
• Assessment against Performance Standard 6 (International Finance Corporation) and other lending criteria of large banks
  
• Provision of biodiversity consultants to cover all aras of biodiversity risk management
• Biodiversity performance measures and indicators
• Biodiversity Action Plans – design and implementation
• EIA / ESHIA – assessment and review
• Integration of biodiversity issues into EMS

Climate change and Payments for Ecosystem Services PES

• Design of biodiversity + carbon + water payments for ecosystem service interventions
• Biodiversity indicators and management for forest carbon projects (REDD) / offsets
• Climate change implications for corporate biodiversity policy

Biodiversity policy and planning

• Strategic and technical assessment of biodiversity policies and programmes (national etc)
• Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) e.g. extractive industries and forest in West Africa

Ecology research (Tropical)

• Conservation planning and biodiversity priority setting
• Field-based ecological research – forestry, ornithology, mammalogy
• Forest inventories, marine surveys, other terrestrial habitat and species inventories
• Avoided deforestation policy and technical guidance on conservation carbon, pro-biodiversity land-based carbon projects
• Rapid Assessment-type biodiversity surveys (forests, grasslands, reefs, mountains)

Leadership, facilitation, cross-sector partnership

• Innovation, creativity, diplomacy. The Biodiversity Consultancy is dedicated to innovative, simple solutions to problems such as KPIs for biodiversity.

• Facilitation of meetings between NGOs and extractive industries
• Initiation and management of cross-sector partnerships
• Creation and chairing of interdisciplinary advisory committees

We intend to bring the highest standards and expertise available in biodiversity management and policy. The need for such know-how has become apparent within industry leaders who have found environmental consultancies lacking in these strategic biodiversity issues. We therefore aim to provide a custom built service for exacting clients and leadership companies.

To discuss your needs, contact jonathan@thebiodiversityconsultancy.com