Geospatial ESG - 2022 Year in Review
To start 2023, I committed to looking back at 2022 and the year in Geospatial ESG to set my priorities for the new year.?What immediately became apparent was the rapid growth and interest of the financial sector to understand the ongoing biodiversity impacts of any given asset, company, or portfolio relative to its peers.
Much of this insight came from my participation as a co-author of the Maxar/WWF paper titled ‘Biodiversity Data Puzzle’ released on December 14th.?I was so proud to have been a part of the paper, and I learned so much about Earth Intelligence‘s role in Nature-Based Financial decision-making based on the interactions with the other participants WWF, Carnegie Mellon University, Google, and others.
At a high level, the Whitepaper looks at how, via geospatial-driven approaches, we might produce improved independent insights into the ecosystem and biodiversity impacts of any given company.
Satellite data can now be leveraged to gain data on biodiversity to help measure these affects. To assist, geospatial data is increasingly available at high resolution with a high level of accuracy. For example, satellites can provide high temporal consistency, with imageries taken in the past and in the future.
Location-specific data is also improving, as satellite technologies like Maxar and artificial intelligence make it easier and cheaper to collect and analyze biodiversity data.
In 2023, I am looking forward to working with partners in the Financial Services community, ESG Data Providers
To support these discussions - WWF will also launch a ‘Geospatial ESG Consortium’ early this year. They welcome those FIs, NGOs, tech, remote sensing, ESG providers, etc., interested in joining. ?To do so, please get in touch.
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1 年Christopher Oxendine, PhD; Casey Backes
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1 年Biodiversity and Financial Services ESG = wow that is a combination -- I wonder what value is considered based on the mere presence of data representing "biodiversity" in contrast to an active Biodiversity Monitoring scenario where the impacts of human and indusrial scenario create dynamic fluctuations in the bisodiversity asset portfolio? Who manages the ongoing acqusition of a baseline, its validation, and ongoing differential results of #continuous_aqusitions necessary for realizing serial iimpacts of the differential results ( the actual value product) of the effort?