The Shearwater Institute provides policy advice, monitoring, reporting and technical solutions to governments, businesses, non-profits and international organizations, bringing fresh ideas and solutions to today's environmental challenges. The Institute has offices in Ottawa, Montreal, New York and Mexico City. Products and Services include Environmental reporting, Scorecard assessment methodologies and technical solutions, and monitoring portals. - Biodiversity and environmental scorecards and evaluations are practical methods to summarize, report, compare and communicate information about the status (condition) and trends of key biodiversity elements such as habitat and living resources and climate change impacts.