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
Yearly Archives: 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has launched a new and improved A-Z of Biodiversity. This is a cluster of online glossaries about biodiversity. Thanks to Eward Pollard for pointing to this. Try it out here and find some more … Continue reading
Josianne Claudia Sales Rosa and Luis E. Sánchez have published a new paper on “Is the ecosystem service concept improving impact assessment? Evidence from recent international practice” in Environmental Impact Assessment Review (Volume 50, January 2015, Pages 134–142). You can … Continue reading
Malika Virah-Sawmy, Johannes Ebeling and Roslyn Taplin have published a new paper on “Mining and biodiversity offsets: A transparent and science-based approach to measure “no-net-loss” in Journal of Environmental Management (Volume 143, 1 October 2014, Pages 61–70). Read more here and … Continue reading