IFB researchers Dr Eun Hye Kim, Professor Franziska Schrodt, and Professor Richard Field from the University of Nottingham, and colleagues in Lausanne, have recently published Towards high-integrity biodiversity credits: balancing commensurability, ecological complexity and governance.
The paper is included in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 292, Issue 2053, with findings presented under four headings:
- Biodiversity credits should not be trapped in the carbon credit framework,
- Protocols first: where standardization really matters,
- High-integrity metrics: addressing systemic gaps in biodiversity credit market readiness, and
- Operationalizing integrity: the critical roles of transparency based on harmonized protocols and regulatory oversight.
The full paper is available here.