The Biodiversity Consultancy

Welcome to the biodiversity consultancy

January 22, 2012 at 7:33 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

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. We are leading edge developers and practitioners in:

No Net Loss / Net Positive Impact

This is the consultancy core expertise

• Private sector and government No Net Loss / Net Positive Impact policy development
• Design and development of No Net Loss / Net Positive Impact programmes – mitigation, offsets, metrics, stakeholder mapping and communications, cross-sector partnerships.
• Key themes mapped out here…

Biodiversity Offsets

We specialise in biodiversity offsets

• Biodiversity offsets design
• Biodiversity offset development
• Sourcing of national teams to implement biodiversity offsets
• Design, development of Monitoring and Evaluation systems for biodiversity offsets

Quantitative Metrics / Currencies

• We develop in pragmatic, scientifically defensible quantitative metrics and currencies for biodiversity
• We advocate and implement flexible currency frameworks which allow both site-specific context and global aggregation for corporate reporting
• Field metrics – company currencies – corporate Key Performance Indicators KPIs can be designed and information systems designed to ensure these hierarchies converse appropriately
• All species and habitats, all ecosystem types

Performance Standard 6  (IFC) / Performance Requirement 6 (EBRD)

We specialise in PS6 and PR6

• Critical Habitat Assessments (Paragraph16, PS6),
• Mitigation and Offset Design and Development (Paragraph 17, PS6),
• Protected Areas requirements (Paragraph 20, PS6)
• Monitoring and Evaluation system design and development (Paragraph 17, 18, PS6)

Biodiversity conservation policy and planning

• Conservation planning and biodiversity priority setting
• Government and corporate biodiversity policy
• Avoided deforestation policy and technical guidance on conservation carbon, pro-biodiversity land-based carbon projects

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

Field surveys and assessments

• Field-based inventories, baseline studies
• Forest inventories, marine surveys, other terrestrial habitat and species inventories
• Rapid Assessment-type biodiversity surveys (forests, grasslands, reefs, mountains)

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 enquiries@thebiodiversityconsultancy.com