Biodiversity Benefit Accounting Landscape Assessment Released

January 2025

The first product of a collaboration between water and nature experts – to facilitate impactful and well-documented biodiversity outcomes in water stewardship projects – has been released. Pacific Institute, CEOWaterMandate, LimnoTech, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Second Nature Ecology + Design have collaborated to develop the "Biodiversity Benefit Accounting (BioBA) Landscape Assessment.”

The BioBA Landscape Assessment critically reviews relevant resources with implications for biodiversity benefit quantification in the water stewardship realm. The objective was to identify baseline information on biodiversity commitments, frameworks, and approaches and support the development of the BioBA methodology in the next phase of work. Several key resources on biodiversity estimation and measurement methods were reviewed, and opportunities for alignment with corporate water stewardship initiatives were explored.

In the next phase of work, the development of BioBA guidance and methodology will provide a standardized approach for monitoring and reporting biodiversity-related outputs, outcomes, and impacts of investments in corporate water and ecosystem stewardship activities.

Learn more here.
Download the Biodiversity Benefit Accounting (BioBA) landscape assessment here.