What is Net Positive?

BRI’s Net Positive Initiative (NPI) is a new research program designed to identify and promote advances in global biodiversity gain. From arid desert environments to the marine realm, we aim to restore ecosystems, combat climate change, and offset global biodiversity loss. Contributing programs focus on:

  • reducing environmental contaminants,
  • achieving carbon neutrality, and
  • facilitating the responsible development of renewable energy.

Program Director:

Contributing Staff:

Focal Activities

Contaminants

BRI has decades of experience identifying mercury in ecosystems and conducting community outreach to reduce the impact of environmental toxins.

Carbon

BRI is actively involved in the growing carbon market to restore ecosystems, conserve wildlife, and enhance human socio-economic development through carbon-financed land use change.

Renewable Energy Development

BRI is a leader in assessing positive and negative impacts to wildlife from wind and solar energy development.

Program Expertise

  • Biodiversity surveys
  • Decision support
  • Statistical modeling and quantitative analyses
  • Compliance
  • Communications

About the Director

Holly Goyert, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to quantifying interactions among marine communities of birds, mammals, fish, and invertebrates, from the seafloor to above the sea surface. With two decades of experience working in both the public and private sectors, she leads the Atlantic Marine Bird Cooperative (AMBC) working group for Marine Spatial Planning. Through the AMBC, Dr. Goyert spearheaded the development of guidance on post-construction monitoring of birds displaced by offshore wind energy development. Most recently, she led an AMBC initiative to develop a framework on net positive approaches in the offshore wind energy industry. She now integrates that experience with other collaborative environmental programs at BRI. Holly speaks fluent Spanish and has both lived and worked in various locales throughout North and South America.