Nature tech is emergent, but with it, improvements and impairments to nature can be measured with an integrity that can be trusted. Local communities of people, many of them resource-constrained, can steward nature together with inexpensive nature tech. With it, they have the capability to (digitally) measure, report and verify (dMRV) how they are preserving, managing, and restoring nature based solutions (NbS) – measuring value to create value. Nature tech can help mobilise investment because it provides transparency and connection – we can baseline the health of nature and then measure whether a human activity improves or worsens it.
You can’t scale up NbS without engaging, consulting, and including the people who work in nature every day. dMRV brings accountability, fairness and integrity to NbS and also gives us data so that we can reward those who successfully improve the natural environment and those who do no harm.
- Investing in data for nature-based projects: a case study from Lauriston Farm
- Decision grade data at RSPB Glencripesdale – a case study
- Digital Devices & Data at Bunloit
