Martin Fallding has published a paper entitled “Biodiversity offsets: Practice and promise” in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (Volume 31 Part 1, 2014). He examines offsets form a Australian perspective, looking at policy and practice especially in the state of New … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Last night I got an alarming e-mail that it might be possible that some kind of malware was installed on a private computer via downloading a file from the Biodiversity Offsets Blog! Now, this is a very specific blog that — … Continue reading
D. M. Evans, R. Altwegg, T. W. J. Garner, M. E. Gompper, I. J. Gordon, J. A. Johnson and N. Pettorelli have published a paper entitled “Biodiversity offsetting: what are the challenges, opportunities and research priorities for animal conservation?” in … Continue reading
CDC Biodiversité’s Mission Economie de la Biodiversité has published a report on payments for ecosystem services, entitled “Du Sud au Nord: regards croisés sur les Paiements pour Services Environnementaux”. The report (in French) was issued in November 2014 in the … Continue reading
Seen the actual numbers (of pages text and centimeters cactus respectively) you might suspect that these are the result of bright New Year’s resolutions — however, I am not so much into this kind of externally imposed self-motivation. But time … Continue reading
The European Commission has commissioned a study on specific design elements of biodiversity offsets: Biodiversity metrics and mechanisms for securing long term conservation benefits. The report and has been prepared by Matt Rayment, Rupert Haines, David McNeil, Mavourneen Conway, Graham … Continue reading
Hugo Rainey, Edward Pollard, Guy Dutson, Jonathan M. Ekstrom, Suzanne Livingstone, Helen Temple and John Pilgrim have published a paper entitled “A review of corporate goals of No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact on biodiversity” in Oryx. The International … Continue reading
Michael Curran, Stefanie Hellweg and Jan Beck haves published a paper entitled “Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy? in Ecological Applications Volume 24, Issue 4 (June 2014) pp. 617–31. You can access the full paper here (pay-walled) and … Continue reading
I am using LinkedIn not only as a platform to connect to other people in my professional field, but also to exchange and discuss current issues. As a result, all of the posts on the Biodiversity Offsets Blog are shared … Continue reading
Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia and Chloe Hill, Green Economy Technical Advisor for WWF Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cambodia are the editors of a new book on payments for ecosystem services that has been published in association with IUCN and UNEP, end … Continue reading