What is a team?
Teams
When you join, you will automatically have a personal team (just for you) that you cannot invite anyone else to.
Teams have licences to use the Natural Capital Suite Apps – licences are per item, not per person (collaboration is good!).
To collaborate you can create new teams at any time, and invite anyone to your new team.
Trees (tokens for purchasing licences) are owned at the team level and are non-transferable.
Teams apply across the whole Natural Capital Suite apps. All your team members have access to all the underlying apps (Natural Capital Market, Natural Capital Project, Natural Capital Region, Natural Capital Impact) and items (individual market listings, individual projects, individual regions, Individual report cards) that the team has a licence for.
Guests
You can share individual items (individual market listings, individual projects, individual regions, individual report cards) to people from outside your team by inviting them to that item as a guest. Guests can only access the items they have been specifically invited to.
What is a guest?
Your team purchases licences to individual items across the Natural Capital Suite apps (e.g. individual market listings, individual projects, individual regions, individual report cards). Everyone on the team has access to every item the team has licenced. If you want to collaborate with someone outside your team (e.g. a consultant) on a particular item (e.g. a single project), they can be invited as a guest to the item.
Teams are for my organisation (like a shared file system), Guests are for collaborating on single items (like a shared single file)
What is an item?
Natural Capital Suite has several apps, and within those apps you can create multiple instances (e.g. multiple projects). Items are simply these single instances and they are what you apply a licence fee for.
What is a tree?
Trees are the tokens used to purchase licences within Natural Capital Suite. Trees are purchased and accessed at the team level. Trees are non-transferable. Trees expire two years after the last tree token activity (buy or use a tree token).
Team roles - Admin Vs Members
Everyone in a team has full access to all team items (e.g. individual projects, market listings, report cards)
Team Admins can purchase Trees, can use trees and can manager users (invite and remove and manage privileges)
Team members can access and use all team items but they cannot spend Trees (cannot create new items or renew subscriptions)
Guest roles - Contributor Vs Viewer
It you invite a guest to an item (e.g. a project) you invite them as either:
Contributor – this has the same rights within the item as a team member – they can edit and delete
Viewer – this is a read only role – they can look but not touch
What is a project?
A project has two parts:
A project has a single survey, which can be applied across multiple land parcels (blocks) for the project.
A block is a continuous land parcel within a project. A project can have multiple blocks. This is to allow representation of a common land management practice or project activity across several different blocks without having to complete the survey for every block.
There is no limit to the number of blocks in a project.
What types of projects are included?
A revegetation project has the primary activity of restoring native vegetation, either through natural regeneration or direct planting and often includes stock exclusion.
Preservation projects focus on putting place controls to preserve existing high quality vegetation. Preservation projects can focus on the riparian zone, wetlands or terrestrial areas. Preservation projects often include stock exclusion.
Other projects are for capturing project activities that are not explicitly modelled such as wetland projects, blue carbon projects, soil carbon and regenerative agriculture projects and community outcome focused projects. Other projects allow user defined water quality, biodiversity and carbon sequestration outcomes.
What is an impact report?
The impact report shows the predicted outcomes of the planned project across 20+ indicators covering carbon sequestration, biodiversity, threatened species, water quality, First Nations, social and governance outcomes. The outcomes are also reported against the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Targets (GBF) and the Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework principles (AASF).
Can I share an impact report?
Yes, you can create a share link for project impact reports.
What data and modeling is used to predict project outcomes?
The underlying data used to present the the initial project conditions and the approaches used to quantify the project impacts (outcomes) are described here.
What is a scenario?
A scenario is the configuration of Actions, investment priorities and the predicted benefits of that configuration.
Key scenario configuration options are:
What are actions?
Actions are the on-ground changes combined with the support mechanisms (e.g. extension, grant, regulation) that can be considered in developing an investment portfolio.
Two example Actions are:
These two actions are the same on-ground change, but the delivery and support mechanisms are different which will result in different adoption likelihood and social benefits from the field day to demonstrate the project.
What are positive and negative Actions?
Positive Actions are activities that provide a net positive social and environmental outcome such as revegetation, agricultural practice improvement, gully remediation.
Positive Actions are considered in investment portfolios, they can be sorted and prioritised according to their benefits.
Negative Actions are activities that have a net negative social and environmental outcome (although they may benefit an individual) .
Negative Actions represent a business as usual approach (e.g. a declining environmental condition from continued clearing, failure to control weeds and pests, continued urban expansion)
What are action libraries?
Action libraries are where actions are stored. You can choose the Action library to use for your scenario.
There are master action libraries for each region that are managed and curated by Truii modellers. These represent a shared knowledge base of Actions. Only approved data curators can edit master library actions.
You can create local libraries of Actions within your region. These action libraries can be created from scratch, or by copying existing Action libraries (such as a master library). Your local Action libraries are specific to a region and are only available to your team and guests. They cannot be shared between teams.
How is confidence determined?
Some Actions are tried and true, others novel. When developing an investment portfolio how do you weigh up a combination of Actions. Natural Capital Region uses a semi quantitative approach to determine the confidence in the predicted benefits of an Action as well as the confidence in the estimated cost of implementing the action.
Confidence is scored across a five point scale, covering epistemic error (maturity of the underlying science) and sources of data error which in turn are converted to an overall confidence in the predicted outcome. Confidence applies to each Action, allowing scenarios to be configured around levels of confidence in outcomes (investment risk). The confidence of individual Actions is aggregated in a scenario (according to how much of the Action is conducted) to produce a scenario level confidence – allowing scenarios to be compared on price, outcomes and confidence in the outcomes and price.
Where does the data come from?
There is an overall approach to data for Natural Capital region, and then region specific application of that approach depending on available data. Region specific data and transformations are listed on the region links here .
Truii is driven by transparency. As such Natural Capital Region uses publicly available open source data.
Can I share my region condition?
Yes, the region condition view (the current condition of natural capital measures for the region) can be shared via the share button producing a link that you can share.
Can I share my scenario results?
Yes, the scenario explore page (where al the results are displayed) can be shared via the share button producing a link that you can share.
Can I collaborate with people outside my team?
Yes, you can invite a ‘guest’ to a Natural Capital Region. You can give them read only permissions, or let them have full rights (click the … at the entry screen in Natural Capital region.
Can I set targets?
Yes, you can define targets as percentage improvement for all the 20+ indicators for every sub-catchment in a region. You can have any number of target collections, e.g. 2030 water quality targets, 2050 water quality targets, social outcome targets, climate change targets.
What is a report card?
We all work hard trying to make a difference. But sadly that difference doesn’t count if nobody knows about it. Report cards allow you to show progress towards targets, against grading schemes or direction (improvement/decline) for all the things you care about.
What is theme?
Report cards have themes which covers the styling (colours and fonts), layout, logo, titles and web page URLs (slug)
What are grading schemes?
Grading schemes allow you to present your success (or otherwise) in a range of ways. Discrete grading allows you to set categories (A,B,C…Good, So So, Poor). Continuous grading allows you to report a continuous range from 0-100. Change grading allows you to simply report if things are getting better or worse.
What locations can I use?
You define the reporting locations (areas or polygons) via a GIS file. Locations for reporting are input via a geojson with a structured three level hierarchy for polygons (region, catchment, sub-catchment… LGA, district, suburb). The spatial naming convention is used for the data that drives the report card.
What indicators should I use?
Indicators are those things that you want to report on – the things that matter to you and often in your regional plans or monitoring an evaluation reporting framework -carbon emissions, biodiversity, water quality, soil health, First Nations outcomes, social outcomes, economic outcomes. The choice of indicators is up to you. The trick is choosing indicators for which you can access data to quantify how they are changing over time.
Do I have to have indicators for all locations?
No. you can set what you report at different spatial levels. You may want to report social outcomes at a whole of region level, and then report water quality outcomes for every sub-catchment.
What is a widget?
Just reporting the numbers is never enough, Users like to see some context. Widgets are different ways to capture context information like a headline figure, boxed information and images. Widgets can be repeated across different reporting locations so you can create them once and use them on several pages.
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