Connecting environmental science, biodiversity and decision-making so that action on nature can be understood in the context of the systems and places it affects.
Global Catchment is focused on bringing stronger scientific thinking to the way organisations understand, measure and act on nature. Rather than treating biodiversity and environmental impact as isolated metrics, the initiative looks at the wider systems in which those actions take place.
That means connecting evidence, place and decision-making: helping organisations ask not simply whether an action sounds positive, but what is changing in the environment around them, what they can do that will make the greatest positive difference, and how that impact can be demonstrated and justified.
Independent scientific evidence also makes environmental action more credible. By building measurement, verification and expert scientific scrutiny into the process, organisations can create an auditable account of what they have done and what changed — reducing the risk of greenwashing and making genuine environmental progress easier to distinguish from good intentions.
Peter is a Co-Director of Global Catchment, and we are really excited to be on board with an initiative that sits naturally alongside Kyros Kairos's wider interest in translating good science into decisions that work in the real world.
Visit the Global Catchment website →Bring ecological and environmental evidence into decisions about nature rather than relying on labels or disconnected indicators.
Understand actions in the context of catchments, landscapes and the wider systems in which environmental change actually happens.
Translate complex scientific evidence into information that organisations can use when deciding where and how to act.
Find out more about the initiative, its team and current work on the Global Catchment website.