Monthly Archives: October 2014

Getting Biodiversity Offsets Right — A Research Agenda for Canada (Policy brief)

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A recent pol­icy brief (Octo­ber 2014) has been pre­pared by Sus­tain­able Pros­per­ity on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in the Cana­dian con­text. See the pdf of the pol­icy brief here and the key mes­sages below. Agenda for Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in Canada_Policy brief_Oct 2014 … Con­tinue read­ing →

Can you reduce environmental impacts of business within a budget? — play the game

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In our very inside, there is a child in each of us which makes that we hardly ever loose our joy of play­ing. That’s prob­a­bly why things like the fol­low­ing game usu­ally attract our atten­tion far more than sim­ple words … Con­tinue read­ing →

A method for calculating minimum biodiversity offset multipliers — new paper by Laitila, Moilanen and Pouzols

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Jussi  Laitila, Atte Moila­nen and Fed­erico M. Pouzols have pub­lished a new paper on “A method for cal­cu­lat­ing min­i­mum bio­di­ver­sity off­set mul­ti­pli­ers account­ing for time dis­count­ing, addi­tion­al­ity, and per­ma­nence” in Meth­ods in Ecol­ogy and Evo­lu­tion. Read more here and find … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 13–19, 2014

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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 →

Organisation de sessions de formations dans le cadre du projet EC-SMD (request to organize workshops on payments for ecosystem services and environmental certification for a project in Morocco)

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This is a guest post on behalf of Moha Had­douch, PES Project national coor­di­na­tor at UNDP Morocco. A project on the pro­tec­tion agro­bio­di­ver­sity in Morocco is seek­ing help with the orga­ni­za­tion of three work­shops in the scope of pay­ments for … Con­tinue read­ing →

Introduction to Biodiversity Offsetting, Workshop, 6 November 2014, London

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The Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment is hold­ing a one-day intro­duc­tory work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting on Novem­ber 6, 2014, 10am — 4pm in Lon­don, man­aged by Dr. Julia Baker. Costs of 90/180 British Pounds apply (member/non-member). Unfor­tu­nately the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 6–12, 2014

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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 →

Have your say – even if it’s a MAYBE: Consultation on the EU No Net Loss Initiative closes today!

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With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing →

Why would you say YES to the EU No Net Loss Initiative?

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With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing →