Maxar Technologies : WWF and Maxar Showcase How Geospatial Technology Can Help the Fin…

The global finance sector is hyper-focused on enabling better environmental, social and governance (ESG) outcomes for business, leveraging its influence to make more environmentally minded investment decisions, encourage more corporate action and enable progress at scale. Recently, there's been a particularly heavy emphasis on biodiversity, which has become one of the hottest topics on the global ESG agenda.

In this push, the finance sector needs more transparency and visibility into the biodiversity-related impacts of business. A new report authored by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), in partnership with Maxar, outlines how geospatial technologies can play a differentiating role in helping deliver the data and ground truth insights needed to validate corporate biodiversity performance.

The report, titled "The Biodiversity Data Puzzle," published today. It provides for the first time an in-depth exploration of how geospatial imagery and analytics can be used to measure nature-related impacts of business and recommends several action items to help better leverage these technologies to drive progress. Maxar served as the technical contributor for the remote sensing industry, helping define the various use cases and applications.

We encourage you to read the report in full here.

To bring this topic to life, we are highlighting three examples of how geospatial technology is being used today to better measure and support biodiversity initiatives. Though not examples from the finance sector, these stories underscore the value of Earth observation in monitoring biodiversity impacts of business and society.

1. Wildlife population mapping

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