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Hi folks 👋 Who are the leading biodiversity credit schemes and, especially, project developers? Where do they operate? Where are they based? How many of them are there? These are just a few of the questions I want to shed a bit more light on today. Time to take a look at Suppliers - the often undervalued Group making these biodiversity credit projects happen. To do that, I’ll use our new Voluntary Biodiversity Market (VBM) database.

Hi folks, Last week we launched the most comprehensive Voluntary Biodiversity Market (VBM) database out there with over 1,000 carefully described and categorized organizations. To access it, just become a free subscriber of Bloom Labs. You’ll find the database link in the welcome email. Today, we’ll share some more high-level analysis of that data. Here’s the real-time data dashboard that I’ll dive into now (works best in desktop!).

Hi friends šŸ‘‹ Last year, I published a database of 450+ voluntary biodiversity market organizations. Many folks told me that it became the go-to place to understand who does what in the market. I too found myself using the database all the time. Bloom Labs is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Over the past year, VBM has matured a little. Way more organizations have entered the space.

Hi folks 👋 For those who don’t know me, I’m Simas from Bloom Labs - a biodiversity finance newsletter & consultancy. I focus on all things biodiversity markets, nature accounting & biodiversity measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Hope you enjoy the piece! We’re at the crossroad of multiple trends: unignorable consequences of biodiversity loss, a landmark global agreement to do something about it and technological advances that can actually help.

Hi folks 👋 For those who don’t know me, I’m Simas from Bloom Labs - a biodiversity finance newsletter & consultancy. I focus on all things biodiversity markets, nature accounting & biodiversity measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Cheers! We’re at the earliest stages of the biodiversity markets boom. That means we’re seeing an explosion of up-and-coming biodiversity credit schemes, both voluntary and compliance. It can be an overwhelming space to follow.

Hi folks 👋 For those who don’t know me, I’m Simas from Bloom Labs - a biodiversity finance newsletter & consultancy. I focus on all things biodiversity markets, nature accounting & biodiversity measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Cheers! This is part two of the biodiversity credit schemes deep dive. In the first part, I open sourced a detailed spreadsheet of every single biodiversity credit scheme I could find & shared some general observations.

Hi friends 👋 Happy New Year! Let’s start with something light - an overview of biodiversity markets. At a similar time last year, I did a market review and was even naive enough to make some predictions. New year, old me. I decided to repeat this humbling exercise :) Let’s get to it. p.s. Just like last year, a reminder that I’m a skeptical optimist - the review is bound to sound gloomier than what I actually feel. Bloom Labs is a reader-supported publication.

Hi folks 👋 For those who don’t know me, I’m Simas from Bloom Labs - a biodiversity finance newsletter & consultancy. I focus on all things biodiversity markets, nature accounting & biodiversity measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Cheers! The first question I get from corporates interested in biodiversity credits is “how are they different from carbon credits?”. That’s a fair question which I will do a deeper dive on. Let’s dig in. First, some context for newcomers.

Hi friends ๐Ÿ‘‹ As promised, hereโ€™s the subscriber-only recording of our Biodiversity Credit Metric Webinar. There, Joshua Berger from BioInt and I gave an overview of the biodiversity credit metric world. Itโ€™s basically a summary of our year-long collaboration (and a bunch of public resources created) on this topic.