CLIMB - A NEW STANDARD FOR VALUING BIODIVERSITY
CLIMB is a new model for calculating, valuing and compensating for biodiversity. Ecogain has developed the model together with several major players in Swedish industry, with the support of Swedish Mining Innovation.
Read more about the CLIMB model and project cooperation here
START USING CLIMB DIRECTLY IN YOUR PROJECTS
Ecogain experts have been involved in the development of CLIMB, know the methodology and have worked with it in several projects. We help you to count with CLIMB in ongoing and future projects.
For example, you can use our environmental consultants to:
map biodiversity in an area
investigate alternative locations and designs
assessing impacts before and after a change in land use
understand and assess different impacts
streamline the environmental assessment of your activities
planning and implementing restoration and compensation
enable follow-up against clearly formulated objectives
report impacts on biodiversity
develop new biodiversity indicators
BOOK A TRAINING COURSE IN CLIMB
Do you want to learn more about CLIMB in order to be able to give advice, place orders, monitor the development of your company's activities and actions, report on biodiversity, or be able to work with the method and make calculations yourself?
Ecogain now offers digital trainings and support in CLIMB. Register your interest here, or contact us to order a training tailored to your organization's needs.
1. INTRODUCTION TO CLIMB
Webinar 1 hour
Date: At the moment we have no open courses planned. Please contact Sara Bökmark if you are interested in booking a private course.
Content: What is CLIMB, how can it be used, by whom and in which industries? We give a general introduction to the CLIMB measurement method - background, function, experiences and possibilities.
Target audience: anyone interested in learning more about CLIMB.
2. CLIMB FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE
Digital education half day
Date: At the moment we have no open courses planned. Please contact Sara Bökmark if you are interested in booking a private course.
Content: For those who want to understand how you can use CLIMB in your projects related to real estate, infrastructure, new production and other development projects. We look at how CLIMB can be used from the early planning phase to see and measure results and follow the development over time. Based on quantitative values, a basis for decisions and communication is also created. You also get an insight into how CLIMB relates to the reporting requirements of CSRD/ESRS and voluntary frameworks such as TNFD.
Target group: actors in construction and real estate with roles such as project manager/project leader, sustainability controller, sustainability strategist, sustainability manager, CEO, etc.
3. CLIMB FOR THE AUTHORIZATION PROCESS
Digital education half day
Date: At the moment we have no open courses planned. Please contact Sara Bökmark if you are interested in booking a private course.
Content: For those who want to understand how you can use CLIMB in your projects related to the establishment of wind, solar power, mining, quarrying, industry and other licensed activities. We look at CLIMB based on the four steps of the consideration hierarchy and show how you can use the tool to avoid, minimize, restore and compensate using CLIMB. You will also get an insight into how CLIMB relates to the reporting requirements of CSRD/ESRS and voluntary frameworks such as TNFD.
Target group: actors in licensed activities with roles such as early/late stage project development manager, landowner manager, project manager, sustainability controller, sustainability strategist, sustainability manager, CEO, etc.
4. MAKING CLIMB ORDERS AND INTERPRETING THE DATA
Digital education half day
Date: At the moment we have no open courses planned. Please contact Sara Bökmark if you are interested in booking a private course.
Content: For those who need to know more about CLIMB to be able to act or advise clients, plan and order inventories in the right way and in good time, and to make accurate orders of the current situation based on the needs of the business and the data you have the best use of.
Target audience: project development manager, project developers, project managers, land users, environmental consultants.
5. COUNT ON CLIMB
Digital education full day
Date: At the moment we have no open courses planned. Contact Sara Bökmark if you are interested in booking a private course.
For those who are familiar with ecology and need to be able to calculate and apply CLIMB, understand how the model works in order to do, for example, impact assessment and compensation calculations on their own.
Target audience: environmental consultants with ecological expertise, project development managers, project developers, land users.
6. CLIMB USER SUPPORT
User support: Book 2 to 4 hours per week on a fixed schedule.
We offer ongoing support for the use of CLIMB in your projects: advice, tips and support for the method, and how it is best optimized for your business.
Target audience: Anyone working with CLIMB in any form.
FACTS ABOUT CLIMB
CLIMB is a calculation model that quantifies biodiversity within a defined area. It is based on DEFRA's Biodiversity Metric 3.0 and adapted to Nordic conditions.
With CLIMB, you can calculate the current situation, as well as negative and positive impacts on biodiversity in a way that was not possible before. This makes it easier to avoid and minimize impacts, plan for restoration and compensation, and report on biodiversity performance.
CLIMB enables new biodiversity KPIs (loss or gain) such as biodiversity units per hectare:
- installed capacity wind or solar power
- kilometers of road, power line or other infrastructure
- new living space; per 100 households
- megatons of mined ore
- ha for an investment case