Tallinn, 30 September 2024 – Endangered Wildlife OU has recently carried out indepth research on the emerging Biodiversity Credit market. The Company’s Biodiversity Valuator can help those who want to better understand a justifiable underlying value of the biodiversity that is supported by Biodiversity Credits.
A new market
Increasingly the private and public sector are looking to promote sustainable investment and business. The market can help to finance projects that protect or even promote biodiversity – with one of the rapidly developing mechanisms being Biodiversity Credits.
A Biodiversity Credit is an evidence-based unit measuring a positive biodiversity result, with the intention that an investment into a credit will result in biodiversity ‘uplift’. Biodiversity Credits are voluntarily purchased and traded on open markets, as part of an effort to provide funds for projects that have the ability to restore habitats that are vital for biodiversity.
As of 2024 there are over 400 companies trading credits in the Biodiversity Credit market. Companies buy Biodiversity Credits as part of their drive to be sustainable, with major companies, such as the maker of the game Kandy Crush, already engaging with the Biodiversity Credit market.
Endangered Wildlife and Biodiversity Credit Market
The Biodiversity Credit market is still growing and there continues to be a lack of standardisation in terms of pricing and measurement methodologies. Often Biodiversity Credits are priced according to the cost of delivering a project and not actually against the underlying value of the biodiversity asset. However, Endangered Wildlife OU has the capacity to redefine how Biodiversity Credits are priced in that the Company has the ability to financially value biodiversity on both a species and richness level.
Endangered Wildlife OU can provide comprehensive valuations or metrics for Biodiversity Credits. This can help better inform decision-makers on the prospective outcomes of Biodiversity Credit investments. Endangered Wildlife OU valuations are more comprehensive than others. For example, they do not only provide a price relative to the cost of the projects but also a biodiversity valuation. This valuation gives the societal, economic and environmental value created by conservation efforts. This valuation can be used in negotiations and allow a project to be fully priced.
As such, Endangered Wildlife OU allows buyers to know and understand the value of the impact of their purchase of Biodiversity Credits. These valuations are reliable and provide better pricing mechanism that could assist with the expansion of both the Biodiversity Credit market and other future biodiversity market mechanisms.
The high-quality data of Endangered Wildlife OU valuations can help buyers ensure projects have a positive impact on biodiversity.
About Endangered Wildlife OÜ
We financially value biodiversity using our Biodiversity Database and Biodiversity Valuator – which allows you to track and monitor the increase in biodiversity impact value, assess biodiversity risk, and integrate biodiversity into decision-making. We assist our clients to understand the financial value of the biodiversity that they affect, and to realise the possible value at risk due to their operations for reporting and decision-making.
