Counter event to the No Net Loss Conference: 2nd Forum on the Natural Commons on 2 June 2014 in London Critics of Biodiversity Offsets have a growing lobby, especially in the UK, where the government seems to rush wanting to push … Continue reading
Criticism on the Natural Capital Agenda and Biodiversity Offsets George Monbiot has presented a detailed (however mostly negative) analysis of his criticism on the Natural Capital Agenda (in the UK) including Biodiversity Offsets as one part of it at his … Continue reading
PhD study on Biodiversity Offsets I am very happy to see more and more very extensive and highly valuable PhD studies emerge in the offsets field. One of the latest is by Michael Curran prepared at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). … Continue reading
The Integrated Governance model is the system by which companies are directed and controlled, in which sustainability issues are integrated in a way that ensures value creation for the company and beneficial results for all stakeholders in the long term. … Continue reading
Dave Poulton has started a new discussion in the BBOP NO Net Loss Discussion Group on LinkedIn. The focus is on experiences, approaches and policies or other jurisdiction of “Credit Stacking”, i.e. the recognition of more than one type of environmental … Continue reading
While I know that France has been making huge efforts to improve impact mitigation and foster biodiversity offsets I just came across some interesting websites by the French Ministry for the Environment (Ministère de l’écologie, du développement durable et de … Continue reading
Follow-up section available on the website of the No Net Loss Conference I have just checked the website of the “To No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Beyond” Conference (London, 3–4 June 2014). There is now a whole follow-up section … Continue reading
As announced in the BBOP No Net Loss Discussion group Malika Virah-Sawmy has published an article on “Mining and biodiversity offsets: A transparent and science-based approach to measure no-net-loss”. Here’s the link to the article https://theconversation.com/does-offsetting-work-to-make-up-for-habitat-lost-to-mining-27699 And here’s the link … Continue reading
Biodiversity Offsets and BBOP If you enter “biodiversity offsets” in Google the first results that you obtain are from the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP). The BBOP platform (pronounced “beebop”) is in place since 2004 and has recently celebrated its … Continue reading
Update September 2014 There are a whole follow up section (including several videos) as well as an extensive summary report available. For more information see my post No Net Loss Conference Conclusions and Summary are out. My observations on the No Net … Continue reading