Nature And Landscape

Developing Standardised Biodiversity Metrics and Financial Tools for Peatlands and Woodlands

Our goal with this project is to further develop a viable biodiversity methodology for Peatland and Woodland in Scotland. The Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) and Peatland Code (PC) have set high integrity standards and have made significant progress in understanding the emerging biodiversity market. There is a strong interest in quantifying biodiversity and the metrics which have been developed for these habitats are viable. The FIRNS 1 project produced a methodology for baselining biodiversity quantification. Feedback from public and academic sources highlighted missing datasets crucial for successful implementation. This next phase focuses on data aggregation and analysis to estimate credit potential for sites, create a community similarity index to contextualise results for UK woodlands and peatlands, and refine the framework for better accessibility and uptake.