BioDiversity Environmental Reporting.

BioDiver (BioDiversity Environmental Reporting) aims to develop a prototype tool that allows commercial entities to support their environmental reporting duties using up-to-date Earth Observation data products. As a theoretical basis, the tool builds on existing frameworks (ENCORE, EU Taxonomy on Sustainable Activities) to identify general dependencies, impacts and potential mitigation practices between economic sectors, ecosystems, and consequently biodiversity. While biodiversity is hardly measurable by Earth Observation methods, it relies on stable ecosystems which in turn provide services that are important for economic activity. Therefore, environmental data is used to map the provision of sector-relevant ecosystem services in the vicinity of company sites. Two main data sources can be identified: Company-specific data on economic sectors, production processes and asset locations will be collected from public and commercial data providers for the development phase while test (and end) users will be able to feed the tool with their own data. Time series of EO-derived environmental data are gathered from publicly available databases (e.g. the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service) covering different domains (water bodies, vegetation parameters, land cover, etc.). The output of the tool will be an automatically generated report featuring main trends, maps, and statistics on ecosystem status and service provision across all company sites, tailored to match the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).