Imagine trying to build a city or a farm without accidentally destroying the local nature that keeps the air clean and soil healthy. This work creates a better guidebook for planners to spot these natural treasures before they start digging. It helps connect the dots between money, law, and nature to make sure we don't destroy the environment while developing land.
Companies and planners struggle to balance land development with biodiversity laws, often leading to project redesigns or financial risks due to environmental harm.
A set of 19 deliverables including benchmarks for spatial planning tools and methods to integrate ecosystem service assessments into land use planning.
If you are a consultancy dealing with strict environmental regulations for new builds — this project developed tools for spatial planning that help avoid significant harm to nature during the design phase. This reduces the risk of project delays and costly redesigns.
If you are a fund manager dealing with the EU finance strategy and 'do no significant harm' rules — this project developed a way to operationalize these rules within land use planning. This ensures your investments are truly sustainable and compliant with 2030 biodiversity goals.
If you are a firm dealing with complex biodiversity loss trends — this project developed a method to combine environmental assessment with economic instruments. This allows you to provide clients with a more accurate value of ecosystem services on their land.
Based on available project data, no specific pricing or cost structures for the resulting tools are mentioned.
The project focuses on local case-studies and benchmarking tools for upscaling, but based on available project data, it has not yet reached full industrial scale.
Based on available project data, there is no information regarding patents or specific licensing agreements for the 19 deliverables.
It helps with the EU biodiversity strategy 2030 and the renewed EU finance strategy regarding the avoidance of significant harm.
The project period runs from 2022-07-01 to 2025-09-30, suggesting results will be fully available by late 2025.
The consortium consists of 8 partners across 4 countries (DE, DK, IT, PT). It is heavily weighted toward research and academic institutions, with only 1 industry partner (12% ratio), suggesting the output is currently more focused on methodology and policy tools than a commercial product.
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