Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 15–21, 2014

About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this … Con­tinue read­ing

No Net Loss Initiative – risk or chance for nature? Political session of the German green party left the issue biased

Last Fri­day I have been to a polit­i­cal ses­sion orga­nized by the Ger­man Green party (Die Grü­nen) of the Fed­eral Par­lia­ment (Bun­destag) in Berlin. Steffi Lemke, par­lia­men­tary exec­u­tive and speaker for nature con­ser­va­tion poli­cies for the Green party, invited experts … Con­tinue read­ing

Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, September 2014

It has been quite a while since the last newslet­ter of the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Pro­gramme. So, I was both happy and sur­prised when the lat­est newslet­ter came in last week. It is full of infor­ma­tion from the bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing

Seminar on Biodiversity Offsetting in Paris on September 30, 2014: “Biodiversity Offsetting and sustainable development: a right to destroy, a fool’s bargain or a tool for reconciliation?”

A Ses­sion of the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and Envi­ron­men­tal Eco­nom­ics Sem­i­nar is held in  Paris on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 30, 2014. It is enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: a right to destroy, a fool’s bar­gain or a tool for reconciliation?”

Annual conference of the German Federal Association of Compensation Agencies held in Stuttgart, September 29–30, 2014

The Ger­man Fed­eral Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­pen­sa­tion Agen­cies (Bun­desver­band der Flächenagen­turen BFAD) is hold­ing its annual con­fer­ence, this time in Stuttgart. The two day event will focus on com­pen­sa­tion pools and eco-accounts and include both pre­sen­ta­tions (and dis­cus­sion) as well as … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 8–14, 2014

About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this … Con­tinue read­ing

15 ways how you can contribute to the Biodiversity Offsets Blog

I don’t know why I usu­ally find myself read­ing the likes of those lists and instruc­tions “10 things to know…”, “3 rea­sons for…” or “100 places to visit…”, even though I have seen them so many times before. The rea­son … Con­tinue read­ing

PhD study: Biodiversity Offsets for moving conservation targets

Another PhD on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets was pub­lished this year. Joe Bull has pre­pared his work at Impe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don, Depart­ment of Life Sci­ences.  His work focuses on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets for mov­ing con­ser­va­tion tar­gets. He exam­ines the case of the Saiga Ante­lope in the … Con­tinue read­ing

Will the Great Barrier Reef die off: How harmful are coastal development activities and can Marine Biodiversity Offsets be effective?

In 2017 Amer­i­can ecol­o­gists from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) develop the ground­break­ing tech­nol­ogy “Gen­Calc”. The new cal­cu­la­tion method offers the oppor­tu­nity to ini­ti­ate transna­tional bio­di­ver­sity com­pen­sa­tion and credit trad­ing – for the first time with­out neglect­ing the com­plex­ity … Con­tinue read­ing