Monitoring private sector investment impacts on biodiversity
TerraBio is a methodological framework that provides monitoring, evaluation, and reporting for environmental impact assessment. It supports businesses that commercialize forest and sustainable agriculture products and invest in sustainable business models.
TerraBio goal and objectives
The overarching goal of TerraBio is to develop and apply a monitoring approach that can:
- Evaluate the performance of private sector supported initiatives and investments on set environmental targets and benefits
- Assess the impacts of initiatives and investments on ecosystem integrity over time
TerraBio is a tool that integrates remote sensing technologies with innovative methodologies to collect biodiversity data in the field, to generate high-resolution information on biodiversity status and trends associated with land use / land cover dynamics.
Workflow
TerraBio integrates remote sensing technologies with in-situ biodiversity data to assess business impacts on biodiversity conservation through rigorous quantitative measurements.
Comparative Design
Info on intervention, counterfactual, and reference
