Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, November 3–9, 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

Today’s BBOP webinar postponed to December 10, 2014!

Today’s BBOP webi­nar on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in the Ambat­ovy min­ing project in in Mada­gas­car was post­poned on short notice due to tech­ni­cal prob­lems! This coin­ci­dence is maybe not too bad (a new date and time have already been sched­uled) as … Con­tinue read­ing

Five offsets policies condensed into a single framework in Queensland, Australia — Amendments to Environmental Offsets Act 2014

Recently, the Queens­land Par­lia­ment voted to pass the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and Other Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment Bill 2014 (EPOLA Bill) as part of the Queens­land Government’s green­tape reduc­tion reforms. EPOLA makes changes to the Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Act 2014 (EO Act). Read below extracts … Con­tinue read­ing

Marine and terrestrial biodiversity offsets: so close and yet so far away — a comment by Céline Jacob

This is a guest post by Céline Jacob, PhD Stu­dent on Marine and Coastal Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets at CREOCEAN — Cen­ter for Func­tional and Evo­lu­tion­ary Ecol­ogy in Mont­pel­lier (France). This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 27 — November 2, 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

BBOP webinar on Wednesday, November 26, 2014: Biodiversity offsets in the Ambatovy mining project in in Madagascar

This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later). This time the focus is … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 20–26, 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

Review of the Taninthayi Nature Reserve Project as a conservation model in Myanmar — new report by Pollard, Hlaing and Pilgrim

UK-based con­sul­tancy “The Bio­di­ver­sity Con­sul­tancy” (TBC) has pub­lished a report enti­tled “Review of the Taninthayi Nature Reserve Project as a con­ser­va­tion model in Myan­mar” (authors: E. H. B. Pol­lard, Soe Win Hlaing and J. D. Pil­grim). The study was com­mis­sioned … Con­tinue read­ing

Greenway Planning and Biodiversity Offsetting Webinar on November 26, 2014, presented by Ontario Nature (Canada)

Ontario Nature is hold­ing a free webi­nar on Green­way plan­ning and bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting. This webi­nar will present two recently released Ontario Nature reports: Best Prac­tices Guide to Nat­ural Her­itage Sys­tems Plan­ning and Insights into Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting in Ontario.  Date: Wednes­day … Con­tinue read­ing