Webinar: Biodiversity accounting and the Woodland Carbon Code and Peatland Code

14:00 - 15:30 GMT, online via Microsoft Teams.

Join the Woodland Carbon Code and Peatland Code teams to hear about our biodiversity crediting project including the lessons learned and next steps. 

Topics will include:

  • Biodiversity crediting frameworks
  • Credit infrastructure including the topic of stacking and bundling
  • Biodiversity monitoring techniques
  • The challenge of creating biodiversity data that can be standardised and independently validated.

Speakers:

Joe Anderson, Independent Consultant and former Biodiversity Crediting Project Officer at IUCN UK Peatland Programme.

Mark Reed, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC, Scotland's Rural College.

Jon Watts, Development Manager at Soil Association Certification Ltd.

 

We will record the webinar and share the video online after the session.

Find out more and book. 

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