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  • Executive summary
  • Front Material
    • Contents
    • Index of figures
    • Index of tables
    • Acronyms and abbreviations
    • Terms and definitions
  • Getting started
  • Introduction
    • The urgency of targeted biodiversity conservation
    • Simplicity, complexity theory, and biodiversity
    • Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities by design
    • Biodiversity methodology benefits
  • Overall description
    • Objectives
    • Scope
    • Limitations
  • Project description
    • Principles
      • Principles of working with IP
    • Eligibility criteria
      • Land ownership and law
    • Additionality
    • Project boundaries
      • Spatial limits of the BCP
      • Temporal limits of the BCP
      • Grouped projects
    • Implementation plan
      • Measurement approaches
      • Indicator species observations
      • Risks and uncertainty
    • Effective participation
      • Community involvement
      • Capacity for action
      • Financial transparency
      • Safeguards checklist
  • Calculation
    • Unit calculations
    • Area calculations
    • Time calculations
    • Integrity calculations
    • Value calculations
  • Baseline assessment
    • Baseline ecosystem categorization
    • Analysis of agents and drivers of biodiversity loss
    • Baseline biodiversity (optional)
    • Baseline risk of biodiversity loss
    • Indicator species selection
    • Indicator species integrity score
  • SDG contributions
  • Monitoring plan
    • Monitoring report
    • Additional monitoring requirements
  • Authors
  • References
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Biodiversity methodologies comparison table
    • Appendix B: Sample legal proof of land control
    • Appendix C: Sample baseline ecosystem categorization
    • Appendix D: Species categorization of richness
    • Appendix E: Sample selection of indicator species
    • Appendix F: Sample indicator-species observations
    • Appendix G: Sample open-source code and calculation
    • Appendix H: Indigenous authors
    • Appendix I: Letters of support
      • Fernando Ayerbe, Ornithology
      • Ned Hording, Biodiversity
      • Olber Llanos, Zoologist
      • Mike McColm, Ethnology
      • Peter Thomas, Anthropologist
      • Jesús Argente, Marine biology
      • Sara Andreotti, Marine Biologist
      • Carolina Romero, Lawyer.
      • Daniel Urbano, Herpetologist
      • Ramesh Boonratana PhD, Primatologist
      • Theodore Schmitt, Conservationists
      • Anja Hutschenreiter, Ecologist and Tropical Conservationist
      • Miguel Chindoy, Indigenous leader
    • Appendix J: Sample uses of biodiversity unit
    • Appendix K: How to do FPIC
    • Appendix L: Independent Expert Panel Checklist
    • Appendix M: How to calculate a biodiversity credit by hand
    • Appendix N: How to calculate home ranges
    • Appendix O: How to calculate integrity scores
  • Document history
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  1. Appendices

Appendix A: Biodiversity methodologies comparison table

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The WWF has identified 867 terrestrial ecoregions on earth’s land alone. Although the exact number of total existing species is still unknown, currently 1.7 million species have been identified (;; . As markets emerge to protect them, there will likely be several biodiversity standards needed to properly value proper possession of this planetary abundance. shows emerging standards, including standards from other certifying bodies in the context of the ISBD at the time it was originally written (July 2023).

More comprehensive reports have emerged in the interim, including this by Simon Gradeckas at , and more will likely certainly be added.

To our knowledge, we remain but we are hopeful this will change as more developers see the need for, and benefits of, IP and LC inclusion in both science and biodiversity projects.

Table 7. Emerging standards (certifying bodies in the context of the ISBD).

Methodology

(Replanet, Wallacea)

Cercarbono (Savimbo)

Scope

Boreal forests

Global

Global

Global

Global

Global

Crediting factors

Inventories (species richness, population size, remote sensing)

Habitat

1% Δ metrics (5+ inc. targets, habitat, and ecosystem)

Unavailable

Umbrella species

Indicator species

Activities

Conservation, restoration and improved forest management

Conservation, Restoration, Management

Conservation, Restoration, Management

Unavailable

Conservation

Conservation

Certified

No

No

In pipeline

In pipeline

No

In pipeline

Unit

Land (ha)

Land (10m2)

Land (ha)

Unavailable

Land (ha)

Land (ha)

Incorporates traditional knowledge

No

No

No

Unavailable

No

Yes

Land tenure

Unavailable

Ownership

Ownership, Stewardship

Unavailable

Ownership, Stewardship

Ownership, Stewardship

Crediting period/ issued

20 yrs, ha/yrs

20 yrs/Milestones

10-50 yrs/XXX

Unavailable

Every 5 yrs/unlimited renewal

2 months/Annually

Ecosystem classification

Unavailable

IUCN

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (TEOW) classification

Unavailable

IUCN

IUCN, CI biodiversity hotspots, UN-FAO LCCS, Holdridge

Issues

BC

VBC

VBC

Unavailable

XXX

VBC

Convention on biological biodiversity, n.d.
Mora et al., 2011
W W F, n.d.)
comparison table
Bloom Labs
the sole IP and LC crediting methodology globally
Table 7
SUAS-SLU
Terrasos
Plan Vivo
Verra
Regen