Measuring Biodiversity at Scale: Lessons from a Five Country NPI pilot with NatureHelm and New Forests
About This Session
Most companies trying to measure their biodiversity impact face the same problem: frameworks exist, but translating them into something that actually works on the ground — across different landscapes, different data environments, and different investor requirements — is another matter entirely.
This session goes behind the scenes of one of the largest pilots of the Nature Positive Initiative's State of Nature metrics run anywhere in the world: 800,000+ hectares of managed forestry assets across five countries, and 34 million hectares of surrounding landscape assessments.
Join us for a candid conversation with NatureHelm, the biodiversity intelligence platform that ran the pilot, and New Forests, the sustainable asset manager whose global forestry portfolio was the canvas for this work.
Key Topics We’ll Cover
What the Nature Positive Initiative's State of Nature metrics are actually asking companies to do, and what it takes to deliver that at real scale
How the same framework surfaced completely different challenges across Australia, the US and Africa + what that reveals about biodiversity measurement in practice
Why species-level data changes what's possible, and why most biodiversity programs still don't have it
What a connectivity analysis looks like when you run it across an entire catchment, including what New Forests found when they did
Honest reflections on where the NPI framework works, where it doesn't, and what applying it at this scale taught both teams
Who Should Attend
This session relevant for investors, asset managers, and corporate sustainability professionals who are navigating new disclosure frameworks like the TNFD. But also all stakeholders within the nature tech ecosystem, including startups, data providers, and researchers working on science-based metrics. We welcome anyone interested in data interoperability and collaborative efforts to close the nature finance gap.
The “Nature Tech in Action” Series
This session is part of NTC’s Nature Tech in Action series, spotlighting how nature-based solutions are implemented on the ground, from community engagement to technology deployment, and what it takes to deliver transparent, trustworthy impact at scale.
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