Using Power BI to make carbon abatement investment decisions!

Event title:
A dialogue with data to integrate social measures into land sector carbon abatement investment decisions

Event summary:
Investments in projects that aim to capture and store carbon in vegetation and soils are often based on potential cost-effectiveness. That approach can overlook the people and communities who live where these projects happen – the very people whose participation and support determine whether initiatives succeed. To bring social and economic contexts and impacts into the frame, we developed a Social Intel for Sustainable Investment Decisions dashboard with DiscoverEI to spark dialogue with partners around the social and economic data that could help inform investment decisions.

This talk will draw on a new open access paper published in Sustainability Science, that shows how social measures could help inform carbon abatement investment decisions. The paper describes work from a partnership between a project team in CSIRO’s Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform and the Queensland Government’s Land Restoration Fund.

Event speaker:
Nikki Dumbrell is an economist in CSIRO Agriculture and Food (CSIRO link HERE). Nikki’s research is guided by the question: how do we manage natural resources to achieve sustainability in a time of significant environmental change? Some of Nikki’s current work is improving the use of socio-economic information in sustainable agriculture investments, policies, and markets.