Biodiversity Framework

Overview

The Biodiversity Framework, described by Gold Standard as its Biodiversity Impact Framework methodology, is under development to measure, manage, and report the biodiversity outcomes of conservation, restoration, and regeneration projects. It aims to set science based rules for quantifying biodiversity impacts so that projects, landscapes, and value chain interventions can make credible claims tied to global biodiversity goals. As of the sources reviewed the methodology has not been finalised, so the exact unit it will certify is not yet defined.

Sources: methodology document · Gold Standard

01 · Roles

The workflow as an explicit directed graph. In Graph each column is one role, so you can see who acts at each step; every node names the org.broadlistening.policy.block.* def it resolves to plus its input and output record. Data flow switches to a lineage view that makes explicit what data each node needs and makes, with dependency arcs tracing every record back to the node that produced it, including where the Darwin Core occurrence + measurement records feed in. Hover to trace, click to inspect; revise edges (dashed) send work back.

03 · Generated lexicon records

The records this methodology compiles to, ready to write to a PDS. The first tabs are the new policy engine records; the ★ claim.activity tab and those after it are reused ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem records (org.hypercerts.*): the issued hypercert batch, its rights, an example verification attachment and a retirement receipt. The ◈ dwc.occurrence and ◈ dwc.measurement tabs are the Darwin Core field evidence the monitoring node writes; see the section below.

{
  "$type": "org.broadlistening.policy.methodology",
  "code": "GS Biodiv",
  "name": "Biodiversity Framework",
  "registry": "Gold Standard (GS)",
  "sector": "Biodiversity",
  "creditType": "biodiversity",
  "status": "testing",
  "version": "1.0",
  "scopes": [
    "Biodiversity",
    "Nature-positive"
  ],
  "aligns": [
    "BCA principles",
    "IAPB framework"
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "registry",
      "name": "Standard Registry",
      "permission": "Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "proponent",
      "name": "Project Proponent",
      "permission": "Registers the project and submits monitoring reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "vvb",
      "name": "Validation & Verification Body",
      "permission": "Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data."
    }
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/gs-biodiversity-bio-baseline",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/gs-biodiversity-bio-monitoring"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/gs-biodiversity",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/gs-biodiversity-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/gs-biodiversity-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas

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