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12:01My voice is already breaking, it's only day two.
12:03But think about other heavy emitting industries like the steel, cement, oil and gas, aviation industries.
12:10All of these industries are actually really hard to decarbonise today because we rely on them so much.
12:15And so that's where carbon credits come in because you need a tool to be able to compensate for emissions
12:21that are left.
12:25So let's look at the bigger picture.
12:26This graph represents global emissions over time.
12:32You can see historical emissions, present emissions and what needs to happen to stay on a 1.5 degree pathway.
12:42So to explain this a little bit, the bars in blue represent the CO2 that we need to eliminate year
12:49on year until 2050 using emissions reductions efforts.
12:55So emissions reductions think of cutting fossil fuels, electrifying transport, scaling renewables.
13:05Now the green bar represents what we basically can't get rid of through emissions reductions.
13:13It's just too late to do that.
13:15So we'll need to take additional action in conjunction with our emissions reductions efforts.
13:23And so apart from carbon, these projects also have what we call co-benefits.
13:29These are social and environmental positive impacts that they bring to the planet and society.
13:35Think about protecting endangered species or providing work to rural communities.
13:42And companies that actually use carbon credits in their strategies have decarbonized twice as fast as those who don't.
13:49That's a study from MSCI.
13:51And you might ask yourself, why?
13:53How come do they decarbonize faster?
13:55And the reason is because these carbon projects allow companies to take climate action today.
14:00So while they're also working on reducing their emissions, they're investing in carbon projects today.
14:11So we know that carbon credits are generated from a huge variety of different projects.
14:19But one carbon credit is still supposed to equal one ton of carbon.
14:23How do you know if that ton is real?
14:25How do you know if the project behind your carbon credits actually needs the revenue from carbon finance to go
14:32ahead?
14:32Is the project additional?
14:33How do you know that the supposed emissions action you're taking is going to be permanent?
14:40And also, how do you know that your carbon credits are being effectively accounted for?
14:46Who is even behind that?
14:48All of these are questions of carbon project quality that impact carbon credit integrity.
14:55But companies that take part in the carbon markets do have to think of a couple of risks that they
15:00may face.
15:00They may face climate risk, for instance, by investing in projects that might be lower quality.
15:05They could impact their net zero targets.
15:08They can also face financial risk if they get a poor return on investment in their investments.
15:14But also, and probably the one that's most front of mind, it's reputational risk.
15:18Because there's a risk that your stakeholders, investors, and even perhaps the media will scrutinize your investments.
15:28So, companies need to invest in trusted ratings.
15:35At B0 Carbon, we've developed a risk-based universal public framework that applies to any carbon credit anywhere in the
15:45world.
15:46Our rating scale conveys our expert opinion on the likelihood that a carbon credit is actually going to achieve that
15:54tonne of carbon that it promises to do so.
15:57And this is expressed on an eight-point scale.
16:00AAA being the highest rating and a D being the lowest rating.
16:05And it's our team of almost 100 experts that make that assessment.
16:12These consist of climate scientists, financial modelers, geospatial experts, policy analysts.
16:20And we put together proprietary data, financial models, geospatial data to come up with our results.
16:31So, what do we do at B0?
16:35We help companies like yourselves either invest in, build, or buy carbon credits with confidence.
16:44And we work with some of the markets, if not some of the world's largest organization.
16:49You'll see some of their logo behind me, some of which are here with us today.
16:55Taking a couple of examples, we work with project developers like Climeworks or South Pole to develop high-integrity carbon
17:03credits.
17:04We also work with investors in financial institutions like Zurich, UBS.
17:09And finally, we work with corporations like EDF or Engie to make sure that they have robust carbon strategies.
17:20And it's not just about confidence.
17:22It's about changing market behaviors.
17:25When we started out in 2021, there was absolutely no correlation between pricing and quality of projects.
17:33That then changed as we became better known in the market and got more coverage, rated more and more projects.
17:39We started to see an average of a 25% increase as you go up a notch on our rating
17:44scale.
17:45Today, that is a 40% increase, which is an undeniable correlation.
17:52So, let's come back to our original question.
17:55Can carbon credits actually help companies and the climate?
17:59Hopefully, through our short presentation, the answer is yes.
18:03Carbon credits offer corporations the chance to take action, climate action, today.
18:09And that's where at BZero, we believe ratings play a crucial tool to help them make more informed decisions.
18:16So, we're trying to build trust, confidence in this market to enable it to scale and make sure investments flow
18:24into high-quality projects.
18:27So, thank you so much for listening.
18:29Come see us at the Impact Bridge if you'd like to learn more.
18:32Sure. Thank you.
18:36Okay, thank you.
18:37So, you guys are kind of like the trust pilot for carbon credits?
18:40Yes, that's right. Yes.
18:41Okay, good luck with it. Thank you.
18:43Thank you.
18:43All right.
18:46Good.
18:47All right, one more.
18:50This next startup goes by the name of Nature Metrics.
18:54And what are they doing?
18:56Well, they're using eDNA, satellite data and AI, de-risking biodiversity and unlocking nature-related opportunities with robust and scalable
19:10nature intelligence.
19:12Well, here to tell you more, Nature Metrics.
19:17Metrics, sorry.
19:23The floor is yours.
19:27Hello. Can everyone hear me okay?
19:29Bonjour tout le monde. Merci d'être venu.
19:31Alors, Nature Metrics, qui sommes-nous?
19:33I'm going to give the presentation in English.
19:36I just wanted to flex a little bit that English people can sometimes speak French.
19:40So, I'm Chris French, funnily enough.
19:42That's my family name too.
19:43And I'm the head of energy projects at Nature Metrics.
19:47Also, a biodiversity specialist with a background in freshwater ecology.
19:51What I'm going to talk to you about today is how Nature Metrics are combining multiple novel data streams to
19:58really bring forward the future of nature intelligence.
20:02So, what are we looking at at the moment?
20:04Well, a massive black spot, it turns out.
20:07We know that half of the world's GDP, some $44 trillion, is dependent directly on nature.
20:14And more of that has pretty strong links with it.
20:19So, it's something that we should really be taking care of, understanding how do our activities affect it?
20:26How is it material to our supply chains?
20:28But inherently, biodiversity is something that is really, really complicated to measure.
20:34It's not like carbon, it's not a single molecule, the same here in France as it is in New Zealand.
20:39Biodiversity is different here as it is 100 meters over there.
20:43So, we need to find a solution that enables us to capture the diversity of biodiversity, but also make it
20:50simple, easy to understand, translatable to people who are not experts,
20:54and who are going to make decisions on how their businesses operate using it.
20:59So, our mission as a business, we've been around for about 10 years now, founded by scientists, is to make
21:05biodiversity measurable at scale,
21:07underpinning global goals and accelerating finance into nature.
21:11Now, what does that mean?
21:12Well, we know that public commitments, public finance is not going to turn around, biodiversity collapse,
21:18and it is the responsibility of businesses to also play their part, understanding how their impacts on the natural world
21:25are changing fundamentally the way that our natural world operates.
21:29Now, site-based data is really, really important.
21:32It's where we started at Nature Metrics, using environmental DNA.
21:36Environmental DNA, it is basically the genetic traces that are left behind in ecosystems by the species that live there.
21:45Think of it like crime scene investigation for nature.
21:48Instead of trying to find criminals, we're trying to find animals.
21:51That's where we started.
21:52But where we're going now, understanding the ambition of some of our larger clients,
21:56is how do we roll that out at ever greater scales?
21:59We can't be everywhere taking samples across millions of hectares,
22:02but we can combine ground truth eDNA with remote sensing to provide insights that really stretch across landscape scale.
22:12And the reason we're doing this is because these traditional methods are just not scalable at all.
22:17I come from an ecological background.
22:18I value anybody in the room here that is an ecologist and is a specialist,
22:22but there's no way we have the expertise to roll this out globally using nets, using traps, using binoculars.
22:30We need a smart solution.
22:33And if you're a business that's trying to understand, well, I need to line up for TNFD, CSRD is on
22:38the horizon,
22:39I want to line with SBTN, and the whole alphabet soup of regulation that we're at the moment,
22:45we need to understand, using a common language, what is the biodiversity impact across all of our sites, right?
22:52If that's a mangrove in West Africa, if it is a forest in the UK, if it is a desert
22:57out in Saudi.
22:58The common thing that all of these places share, and that all living things share,
23:02is that they all have DNA, and the DNA from one species is different from another.
23:06So it allows us, really, when considering the DNA is everywhere, the world is a genetic soup,
23:11we can collect, using the same standardised sampling methodologies and protocols,
23:17biodiversity from vastly different sites, and enable it to be comparable over time, over space,
23:24and really allow companies to understand where the risks and dependencies are.
23:28Now, there's a couple of videos of this tech in action.
23:30It's been designed to be really, really simple to use.
23:34Children can use this technique.
23:36We have some comparisons using local schools that get the same quality of data from Rivers
23:42as our founder, who has a PhD.
23:44So this means, really, if you're a business, and you're thinking,
23:47God, it's going to be really expensive to get biodiversity data across all my portfolio,
23:51you can use your existing field teams, security guards, engineers, local communities,
23:57to gather really high-quality biodiversity data,
24:00and then get it back in a standardised and repeatable way.
24:04If we move on, oh, there's me.
24:05I'm actually looking a bit tired there.
24:07Here I am, out in the field, doing some soil sampling.
24:10Now, soil, really misunderstood, but actually contains the clues of the building blocks of a healthy ecosystem.
24:17Fungi, bacteria, invertebrates.
24:19They're not sexy, but they're really, really important.
24:22And on this particular day here, we got a team of lawyers out into the field.
24:27They were sponsoring a restoration project up in Norfolk, in the UK.
24:32They spend their entire lives behind a desk.
24:34They were the happiest they'd been in a long time, getting boots on the ground, getting muddy,
24:39getting engaged with nature.
24:40And that is the value of having a product that is so easy to deploy that your entire teams can
24:46get involved with it.
24:48There's another video here.
24:49So this is within our lab.
24:51So, of course, I'm talking a lot about the value of it, but we do have some pretty significant credentials
24:55behind it.
24:56Nature Metrics are the world's largest commercial provider of EDNA.
25:00We've been around for about 10 years now.
25:02Last year, we were successful in our Series B, gaining investment from EDF, which was fantastic.
25:07But these facilities allow us to give confidence to our customers that we have really clean, validated, repeatable pipelines
25:15that allow you to really, truly track biodiversity change across significant areas, different landscapes, etc.
25:23We've got about 40 PhDs in the company.
25:26We're a total of about 130 people now.
25:29Those labs are based in the UK.
25:30But we have worked now in more than 100 countries around the world with more than 600 clients.
25:36We've got a dedicated logistics team.
25:38If you're working in Colombia, if you're working in Angola, if you're working in Vietnam,
25:43we can help you with the permits.
25:44We can help you with the considerations and really make that biodiversity data collection journey easy for you.
25:51Now, our solution combines, as I've said, a variety of different techniques.
25:56We recently launched Habitat Insights to go alongside the Species Insights that are provided by EDNA.
26:02But really, thinking about all these things together, it is the biodiversity metrics that we provide,
26:07those simple numbers that can be tracked over time that really help to make biodiversity understandable at scale
26:13by people who are not experts.
26:16So this is an example slide now of our Nature Intelligence platform.
26:21We can present biodiversity more like an asset that you can invest in, that you can calculate a return
26:28if you have a target of no net loss, 10% biodiversity net gain.
26:32If you've got strong, robust data upon which to calculate these metrics,
26:37you can set meaningful targets as a business and track your progress towards them,
26:41also aligning in certain jurisdictions where there are now mandatory requirements for biodiversity net gain.
26:47But really, this is there so that if you're a sustainability manager, a site manager, a local community,
26:53that data is meaningful, but it retains the colour and interest that our natural world has for us.
26:59We need to ensure that people can engage with it and understand its value.
27:03Again, another example here of the platform in action.
27:06This shows just the flexibility of the deployment of this technique.
27:10This was with MSC Cruises where we took water from the engine cooling system within the boat
27:17and we were able to just pass that through some of our EDNA filters
27:20and unveil a massive richness of Arctic biodiversity without changing anything about the way this cruise was operating.
27:28Just a simple water sample.
27:30It really is that easy.
27:32So Nature Metrics, as I've said, we worked in more than 110 countries around the world now
27:36on a variety of different subjects.
27:38We have a mining team.
27:40I'm in the energy team.
27:42Conservation.
27:43Infrastructure.
27:44Basically, the techniques are broadly the same.
27:46EDNA can give you that data regardless of your project motivation and activities.
27:51So some great examples up there on the screen.
27:54I've got 56 seconds left.
27:56I'm just going to close by showing some of our awards and recognitions there.
28:01It's, of course, a team effort, but we're delighted to be here at Viva Tech.
28:05Thank you so much for coming and having a look.
28:07We're up on the Impact Bridge alongside some other wonderful startups supported by EDF.
28:14So please come and say hello.
28:16Get a personalized demo.
28:17Talk to us about your projects or just share with us how much you love nature.
28:22We love talking about it.
28:23So thank you very much, everybody.
28:27Thank you very much.
28:28Nature Metrics, ladies and gentlemen.
28:31Difficult for me to say that one.
28:32Thank you.
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