Monthly Archives: March 2015

Biodiversity offsets are not a business — why I don’t think we’ll have a commercial platform for biodiversity offsets somewhere in Europe, soon

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This is an opin­ion post by Mar­i­anne Darbi, researcher at Leib­niz Insti­tute of Eco­log­i­cal Urban and Regional Devel­op­ment (Ger­many) and founder of the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog. This com­ment is the expres­sion of my own thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is … Con­tinue read­ing →

(Last) Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, December 8–31, 2014

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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 →

Perverse incentives risk undermining biodiversity offset policies — new paper by Gordon et al

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Ascelin Gor­don, Joe Bull, Chris Wilcox and Mar­tine Maron have pub­lished a new paper enti­tled “Per­verse incen­tives risk under­min­ing bio­di­ver­sity off­set poli­cies” in Jour­nal of Applied Ecol­ogy (Feb­ru­ary 2015). Read more on the Jour­nal web­site (pay-walled). For more infor­ma­tion see also a … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Blog on Cow Burps — A UK-based environmental economics blog

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The Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog is mak­ing the rounds — thanks to the team at Cow Burps for shar­ing a link and some infor­ma­tion on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog today in a blog post. Read more here. Read more about Cow … Con­tinue read­ing →