Marine Conservation & Climate Finance
Nereus · with Jayson A. Gutierrez Betancur
$1.62B
in natural capital quantified across the pilot portfolio
40
Bridge Axioms extracted from peer-reviewed literature
9
Indo-Pacific marine sites in the pilot
Turning 100 Million Biodiversity Records into Auditable Blue Finance Intelligence
The Challenge
The world's oceans generate an estimated $2.5 trillion in economic value annually: fisheries, coastal protection, tourism, and carbon sequestration. Yet this natural capital remains almost entirely invisible to the financial system. The problem is not a lack of data. OBIS holds over 100 million marine species occurrence records. Copernicus satellites pass over every reef and mangrove bed multiple times daily. Hundreds of peer-reviewed papers quantify ecosystem service values with confidence intervals. The problem is that none of this translates automatically into a financial number that capital can underwrite.
How Semantica Helped
Semantica is the provenance engine inside Nereus. It ingests peer-reviewed scientific literature, extracts causal claims with full DOI attribution, and assembles them into a deterministic financial inference graph. The core mechanism is the Bridge Axiom: a conditional financial primitive derived directly from a scientific paper and permanently linked to its source. An AI agent traverses the verifiable graph path from a raw satellite or sensor reading, through one or more validated axioms, to a calculated financial exposure metric. The output is a P5/P50/P95 exposure figure with a complete, reproducible audit trail from science to finance. The system also generates TNFD-compliant LEAP disclosure packages on demand, as a byproduct of the analysis rather than a separate workflow.
Semantica Modules
ProvenanceManager
Traces every extracted claim back to its source DOI, author, journal, and page number. No assertion in any output is unattributed. The audit trail is structural, not optional.
GraphBuilder
Assembles a directed acyclic causal graph connecting sensor readings through Bridge Axioms to ecosystem service valuations and downstream financial outcomes.
PolicyEngine
Evaluates the current portfolio against TNFD/LEAP compliance rules, identifies material dependencies and transition risks, and flags gaps before a disclosure window opens.
ContextGraph
Records the complete decision context for every financial metric: which axioms fired, which inputs were used, who ran the query, and what the graph state was at execution time.
$1.62B
in natural capital quantified across the pilot portfolio
40
Bridge Axioms extracted from peer-reviewed literature
9
Indo-Pacific marine sites in the pilot