Daniel Moura has started a new discussion in the Biodiversity Professionals Group on LinkedIn on the value of valuing nature. This is based on a recent article published in the research news section of the University of Cambridge (UK), entitled … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 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
I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webinar being held in an hour’s time from now. This week the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme has announced its next BBOP webinar as This time the topic is: … Continue reading
IUCN has presented the latest report by its Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group at the IUCN World Parks Congress (12 - 19 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia). Lead authors Kerry ten Kate and John Pilgrim together with various contributing authors have written more … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Joël Houdet, Senior Research Fellow at African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Johannesburg (South Africa). For any further information, please contact Joël directly. Call for issue papers: Responsible Natural Resource Economies in Africa. The African Center for Technology Studies … Continue reading
Ana Villarroya, Ana Christina Barros and Joe Kiesecker have published a new paper on “Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America” in PLOS ONE. You can access the full paper here (open access) and find the abstract copied … Continue reading
Rebecca Kormos, Cyril F. Kormos, Tatyana Humle, Annette Lanjouw, Helga Rainer, Ray Victurine, A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, Mamadou S. Diallo and Elizabeth A. Williamson have published a new paper on “Great Apes and Biodiversity Offset Projects in Africa: The Case for National Offset Strategies” in Methods … Continue reading
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
Cactus and PhD have both slowed down a little (at least in quantitative terms, i.e. in terms of pages or centimeters grown). I have had another meeting of my PhD Advisory Committee this week where I presented and discussed interim results … Continue reading
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