Memorandum of Understanding ensures company’s technology will be rolled out in Indonesia over the next decade. Ecometrica CFO Adrian Smith (centre) at the signing ceremony. Edinburgh, 22 August 2019 – Downstream space and sustainability company Ecometrica has made a...
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Ghana Chooses Ecometrica Platform For Cocoa Farming Deforestation Initiative
New Agreement Ensures Continuity of Mapping and Monitoring Methods Developed Through Forests 2020 Accra/Edinburgh, 1 August 2019 – Ghana is stepping up its commitment to help end deforestation due to cocoa farming, by partnering with Ecometrica, the downstream space...
The other side of avocado toast
By Felicia Line, Space Program Co-ordinator for Latin America, Ecometrica Avocados have sky rocketed in popularity in recent years, with vegans all over the world preaching their nutritious value in terms of vitamins, minerals and mono-unsaturated (healthy!) fats,...
Turning Satellite Data into Corporate Insights: Interview with Sarah Middlemiss
Ecometrica was a sponsor of Innovation Forum’s recent sustainable landscapes conference. In a follow-up interview, Sarah Middlemiss, Space Programme Manager at Ecometrica, spoke with Ian Welsh about trends in how companies are using satellite and other...
Ecometrica Platform named Environmental Leader Product of the Year for the fourth time
Ecometrica has won the prestigious US Environmental Leader Product of the Year Award for the fourth consecutive year for the Ecometrica Platform, which helps business, governments and society to understand and monitor environmental impacts, and protect the planet’s...
Ecometrica named Digital Technology Business of the Year 2019!
10th May 2019: At the prestigious ScotlandIS DigitalTech Awards in Glasgow last night, Ecometrica was named SME Digital Technology Business of the Year. Collected by Ecometrica's Grant Anderson and Paula McGregor, the award is the latest in a long line of...
Ecometrica Platform: Sustainability Updates for Quarter 1, 2019
It’s been a busy three months at Ecometrica helping clients with calendar year ends, preparing for March year ends, and beginning our preparations for CDP 2019. In Ecometrica news, we have landed on the FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest growing companies for the third...
Ecometrica space tech set to help combat cocoa-fuelled deforestation
UK Space Agency’s pioneering Forests 2020 Project enables cocoa buyers to plot supply chain data onto satellite and LiDAR map Cocoa beans in Ghana by Lewis Rattray, GIS and Earth Observation Analyst at Ecometrica Edinburgh, 3 April 2019: African Governments and the...
It’s a hat-trick! Ecometrica lands on FT 1000 list for the third time in a row
Ecometrica has landed on the FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest growing companies for the third consecutive year. The placing was based on revenue growth of 406% in the three years to 2017. It follows a stellar 2018 that saw the Edinburgh-headquartered company,...
Extracting actionable insights from satellite data: Sarah Middlemiss talks to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh
Ecometrica was a sponsor of Innovation Forum’s recent sustainable landscapes conference. In a follow-up podcast, Sarah Middlemiss, Space Programme Manager at Ecometrica, talks with Ian Welsh about trends in how companies are using satellite and other...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and what they mean for business
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Can humanity rid itself of poverty, hunger, inhibit climate change and bring about gender equality in the next 11 years? 193 governments of the world aim to achieve such a feat. The United Nations Sustainable...
2019 Update on the UK Government’s plans for the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) Regulations
Click to enlarge. You can find details of Ecometrica's SECR Reporting service here. BEIS (the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) has just published the new Environmental Reporting Guidance to accompany the SECR Regulations, that...
CDP Update: 2018 Scores and 2019 Timeline
This morning, CDP have released further details around their 2018 score release and 2019 timeline. 2018 Data and Scores 2018 public responses are now available on the CDP website 2018 scores will be made available to companies, investors and requesting...
Alliance for Water Stewardship: Measure, analyse & improve business continuity with Ecometrica
Society as a whole is starting to realise that water is becoming a larger, or perhaps our largest, sustainability problem. While previously it was the lack of water that was perceived as the problem, in the last few years we have clearly noticed problems with water...
Forests 2020: Achievements in the First 18 Months
First published by Geoconnexion Tropical forests represent a vital resource, underpinning the livelihoods of billions of people, storing and cycling large amounts of carbon dioxide and water and hosting a large proportion of global biodiversity. Recent research...
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) – What does it mean for business?
Background Following the successful negotiation of the Paris Agreement in 2015, 195 UNFCCC members agreed to aim to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to limit the increase to 1.5°C if possible. After...
CDP 2019: did the pressure get to you in 2018? Are you ready for next year?
The CDP disclosure cycle is over for another year, but how much did you feel the heat in 2018? Ecometrica is one of the best partners you can hope to have for your 2019 CDP disclosure cycle. As well as being the only CDP Gold Software Partner for Water, Forests...
Ecometrica recognised on new FT Future 100 list for innovators and industry leaders
Ecometrica has been picked from a select group of businesses for the inaugural FT Future 100 list, highlighting Britain’s most innovative and disruptive organisations. The Edinburgh-headquartered firm, already named on the FT 1000 and the Sunday Times Tech...