This webinar organized by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) will share and explain a novel set of ‘biodiversity impact factors’ based on the Mean Species Abundance (MSA) indicator, an ecosystem intactness metric.
A paper with updated factors - Schipper et al. "Impact factors for quantifying country-level terrestrial biodiversity intactness footprints (IBIF)" - was published in October 2025 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05946-1
The webinar will explain how the factors were derived using the GLOBIO v4 biodiversity model, how the factors can be applied, the pros and cons of the MSA indicator, and the conditions of use for developers, data providers and others.