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Do you speak "ecological benefits"?

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and machine-readable icons that describe how we create positive impacts to meet the globe’s greatest challenges.

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Do you speak "ecological benefits"?

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and machine-readable icons that describe how we create positive impacts to meet the globe’s greatest challenges.

Learn More

Born from an unprecedented global collaboration between hundreds of designers and agrifood system experts, the system that began as Foodicons™ has now evolved into the more comprehensive system of Lex Icons™, consisting of several thousands of machine-readable visual representations of foundational terms and concepts. Learn more here.

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Ecological Survey

Conducting comprehensive ecological surveys to assess the overall health and biodiversity of ecosystems, including the measurement of various abiotic and biotic factors.

Juli Panchani

India

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Ecological Benefits Monitoring

"Engaging and consulting with local communities, indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders affected by carbon market projects to ensure their meaningful participation in project planning, implementation, and benefit sharing. "

Juli Panchani

India

Customer Feedback

Air Quality Monitoring

Application of air quality models and simulation tools to estimate pollutant concentrations, predict dispersion patterns, and assess the impact of emissions on air quality.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

Customer Feedback

Water Quality Monitoring

"This type of MRV involves the collection and analysis of water samples to assess various parameters that indicate water quality. These parameters may include chemical constituents (e.g., pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, heavy metals), biological indicators (e.g., presence of pathogens, aquatic biodiversity), and physical properties (e.g., temperature, turbidity). Monitoring water quality helps identify potential contaminants, evaluate compliance with water quality standards or regulations, and assess the effectiveness of pollution control measures. "

Juli Panchani

India

Customer Feedback

Soil Moisture Monitoring

Measuring soil moisture content using sensors or probes to assess soil water availability, irrigation needs, and the potential for drought stress.

Juli Panchani

India

Customer Feedback

New Growth Conservation

New growth refers to young forests that have recently regenerated after disturbance or harvesting.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Customer Feedback

Payment Frequency - Improved

How frequently are project developers/ stakeholders compensated for impact.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Air Quality Modeling

Application of air quality models and simulation tools to estimate pollutant concentrations, predict dispersion patterns, and assess the impact of emissions on air quality.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Air Quality Modeling

Benefit-sharing Mechanism

Developing and implementing mechanisms that ensure the fair and equitable distribution of benefits derived from EBF activities. This may include revenue-sharing arrangements, community benefit funds, or participation in decision-making processes.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Benefit-sharing Mechanism

Biodiversity Credits

Biodiversity credit refers to economic instruments to fund activities that drive positive impact and gains on biodiversity. Contrast to biodiversity offsets in which payments made to compensate biodiversity ecosystem damage, the biodiversity credit enable companies to support positive biodiversity projects and provide long term funding.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Biodiversity Credits

Blockchain-based Registry

Blockchain based registry is a log and account registry on what projects have developed credits, who has bought the credits, who retired the credit and according to what methodology that enhanced with blockchain technology to improves efficiency, trust and user experiences.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Blockchain-based Registry

Carbon Capture

Carbon capture refers to the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas concentrations.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Carbon Capture

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Entity structure that uses bottom up system with no central authority implementing smart contract. Members have access to own tokens and vote on initiatives of entity.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Ecological Benefits Monitoring

Engaging and consulting with local communities, indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders affected by carbon market projects to ensure their meaningful participation in project planning, implementation, and benefit sharing.

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Ecological Benefits Monitoring

Forest Carbon Monitoring

Monitoring and assessing changes in forest cover, carbon stocks, and associated emissions or removals in carbon forestry projects or REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiatives.

Juli Panchani

USA

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Forest Carbon Monitoring

GPS

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a receiver that collects satellite signals. In the context of EBF, this may refer to an MRV aspect of collecting and monitoring data.

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

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GPS

Improved Forest Management

Improved forest management focuses on managing vegetation, restoring ecosystems, reducing hazards, and maintaining forest health in a way that results in increased carbon stocks within forests and/or reduces GHG emissions from forestry activities when compared to business-as-usual forestry practices.
Improved Forest Management

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

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Improved Forest Management

Improved Forest Management

Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous stewardship refers to the traditional knowledge, practices, and systems of governance exercised by Indigenous communities in managing and caring for their lands, territories, and resources. It involves a holistic and sustainable approach that respects the interconnectedness between nature, culture, and community.
Indigenous Stewardship

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

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Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous Stewardship

Leakage

Leakage, in the context of EBF, refers to the unintended consequences or negative effects that may occur as a result of implementing a specific action or project aimed at addressing an environmental issue. It refers to the displacement or shifting of negative impacts from one area or activity to another, often undermining the overall effectiveness of the intended intervention.
Leakage

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Leakage

Leakage

Mobile Monitoring

Mitigation refers to the actions taken to reduce or prevent the impact of a potential harm or threat (e.g. mitigating fires in forests, or mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions)
Mobile Monitoring

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Mobile Monitoring

Mobile Monitoring

NFT/Token

NFT/Token

Juli Panchani

USA

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NFT/Token

NFT/Token

Outcomes-Based Assessment

Outcomes-based assessment is an approach used to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of interventions, programs, or policies by focusing on the outcomes achieved rather than on the practices. It involves assessing the extent to which desired outcomes, such as changes in condition, well-being, or behavior, have been achieved as a result of the intervention.
Outcomes-Based Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Outcomes-Based Assessment

Outcomes-Based Assessment

Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence risk refers to the possibility of released or re-emitted carbon, such as through forest fires or decay of stored biomass, which would negate the intended emissions reductions or removals.
Permanence Risk Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence Risk Assessment

Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-based assessment refers to the evaluation of a project based on specific practices or activities implemented within an organization, project, or initiative. Instead of focusing solely on broad outcomes or indicators, practice-based measurement emphasizes the assessment of specific actions, processes, or interventions to understand their effectiveness and impact.
Practice-Based Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-Based Assessment

Project Developer

A project developer refers to an individual or entity responsible for conceiving, planning, and overseeing the execution of a project from its inception to completion.
Project Developer

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Project Developer

Project Developer

Reforestation

Reforestation refers to the practice of planting forests where previously a forest had been cut down.

Mingyu Han

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Reforestation

Renewable Energy Credit (REC)

Renewable Energy Credit (REC) is a market based instrument focusing on renewable energy generation using megawatt hours as unit of measure sourced from electricity generators. REC can underlie claim use of renewable electricity generation and lower company or organization’s market based electricity emission

Mingyu Han

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Renewable Energy Credit (REC)

Shared Carbon Offset Projects

Neighboring entities collaborate on a joint carbon offset project where the carbon credits generated are shared between them. This could involve implementing emission reduction activities, such as renewable energy projects or methane capture initiatives, on both properties to collectively generate carbon offsets.

Mingyu Han

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Shared Carbon Offset Projects

Tokenized Credit

Carbon credit is tokenized as digital representation of real world carbon credit on blockchain through platforms such as Toucan, Nori or others. The paper certificate or some other sort of evidence is translated into an entry of public digital ledger

Juli Panchani

USA

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Tokenized Credit

Voluntary Market Credits

Voluntary carbon markets are self governed and not enforced or legally mandated in which companies, organizations or individual generating carbon offsets can issue and sell them to others to decrease their carbon emissions. This includes several markets such as American Carbon Registry (ACR); Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Registry (APX, Inc); Gold Standard Registry (APX, Inc); Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Registry (Verra); Climate, Community, & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Registry (Verra); Social Carbon Registry (Markit); Plan Vivo Registry (Markit)

Juli Panchani

USA

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Voluntary Market Credits

Water Quality Monitoring

This type of MRV involves the collection and analysis of water samples to assess various parameters that indicate water quality. These parameters may include chemical constituents (e.g., pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, heavy metals), biological indicators (e.g., presence of pathogens, aquatic biodiversity), and physical properties (e.g., temperature, turbidity). Monitoring water quality helps identify potential contaminants, evaluate compliance with water quality standards or regulations, and assess the effectiveness of pollution control measures.

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Water Quality Monitoring

ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS FROM A TO Z

Corporate Buyer

A corporate buyer refers to a purchaser who is an agent for an organization or corporation (as opposed to a singular individual).

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Corporate Buyer

Cost-effective MRV

Assessing the expenses associated with measurement equipment, data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure cost-effective solutions and leveraging technology which can help reduce the financial burden and make MRV more accessible to a wider range of projects.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Cost-effective MRV

Cover Cropping

Regenerative agricultural practice where specific crops are planted to improve soil health, fertility, and overall ecosystem resilience; typically grown between main crop seasons or in fallow periods to cover and protect the soil from erosion, nutrient loss, and weed growth.

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USA

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Cover Cropping

Credit-based Payment

Carbon payment is based on credit sales transaction either through upfront payment (pre-project) for developing a project, or alternatively, the project may be paid years after the project is finished being developed

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Credit-based Payment

Crime Mitigation

A reduction in unlawful behavior performed by individuals or groups that is in direct violation with local government laws and regulations.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Crime Mitigation

Crown Sovereign Ownership

land owned and managed by the government or state which may designate certain areas for EBF projects or other environmental initiatives.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Crown Sovereign Ownership

Dashboard and Information Management Systems

Digital infrastructure to store and track project data with data visualizations into dashboard using information management system

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Dashboard and Information Management Systems

Data Privacy

Data privacy is data protection that concerns the proper handling of personal or confidential data.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Data Privacy

De facto Possession

De facto possession refers to the actual, physical possession or control of land

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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De facto Possession

De jure Possession

De jure possession refers to legal ownership or control of land as recognized by law or government.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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De jure Possession

Dead Wood Conservation

Preserving dead wood refers to the intentional retention and protection of standing dead trees, fallen logs, and decaying wood within ecosystems.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Dead Wood Conservation

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Entity structure that uses bottom up system with no central authority implementing smart contract. Members have access to own tokens and vote on initiatives of entity.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Direct Payment

Buyers pay project developers or credit sellers directly

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Direct Payment

Direct Sale

Direct refers to the direct transaction between a buyer and a seller (e.g., a carbon removal project and a buyer of credits) without any intermediaries or brokers.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

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Direct Sale

Disability inclusion

Disability inclusion refers to the practice of ensuring that individuals with disabilities have equal opportunities, access, and participation in all aspects of society. It involves creating inclusive environments, removing barriers, and promoting the rights, dignity, and well-being of people with disabilities.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Disability inclusion

Disaster Mitigation

The decrease, prevention, and preparedness of disasters caused by climate change, natural disasters, and urban pressures.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Disaster Mitigation

Dispersion Modeling

Typically used in the permitting process to estimate the concentration of pollutants at specified ground-level receptors surrounding an emissions source.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Dispersion Modeling

Displacement of Emissions Assessment

refers to the ending of emissions in one place only for it to come up in another, effictively moving the emissions elsewhere in the value chain.
Displacement of Emissions Assessment

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Displacement of Emissions Assessment

Displacement of Emissions Assessment

Disputed Land Tenure or Ownership

land ownership disputes between different communities or conflicting land claims by multiple parties can arise in some regions, especially in areas with complex land tenure systems or historical land injustices due to legal, social, or cultural issues.

Juli Panchani

USA

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Disputed Land Tenure or Ownership

Disturbance Mitigation

Minimizing disturbance refers to the intentional reduction or avoidance of activities that can disrupt or harm natural ecosystems.

Juli Panchani

USA

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Disturbance Mitigation

Do No Harm Safeguards

“Do No Harm” safeguards refer to a set of principles and measures designed to minimize and mitigate negative impacts on people, communities, and the environment during the implementation of projects, programs, or policies. These safeguards aim to prevent or reduce harm, avoid negative consequences, and promote the well-being and rights of affected stakeholders.

Juli Panchani

USA

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Do No Harm Safeguards

Drinking Water

Drinking water is water that is used in drink or food preparation.

Shaun Williams

United Kingdom

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Drinking Water

Drone

Unmanned aerial vehicle used in agriculture for monitoring crops, land surveys, and precision farming.

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USA

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Drone

Ecological Benefit

Positive impacts on the environment, such as improved biodiversity, soil health, or water quality, air quality, increased equity and carbon sequestration resulting from sustainable practices.

Mykhailo Sidash

Ukraine

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Ecological Benefit

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