Monthly Archives: June 2015

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part II — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

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This is the sec­ond part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as.consultant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ mod­els, This … Con­tinue read­ing →

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part I — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

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This is the first part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as.consultant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ mod­els, … Con­tinue read­ing →

KEY ISSUES IN BIODIVERSITY OFFSET LAW AND POLICY. A Comparison of Six Jurisdictions — new report by Dave Poulton

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Some time ago I have been asked by Dave Poul­ton to review a chap­ter on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets under the Ger­man Impact Mit­i­ga­tion Reg­u­la­tion. So I am more than happy to inform you that Dave’s report enti­tled “KEY ISSUES IN BIODIVERSITY OFFSET … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity and Conservation Offsets: A Guide for Albertans (Canada) — new paper by Dave Poulton

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Thanks to Dave Poul­ton for shar­ing his lat­est paper enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity and Con­ser­va­tion Off­sets: A Guide for Alber­tans”. The paper was pre­pared at the Cana­dian Insti­tute of Resources Law. You can access the full paper online and see the intro­duc­tion copied below. … Con­tinue read­ing →

Job offer on biodiversity offsets: Senior Principal Consultant at the Biodiversity Consultancy, Cambridge (UK)

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The Cam­bridge based envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­tancy The Bio­di­ver­sity con­sul­tancy is look­ing for a Senior Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant to join their team. The Bio­di­ver­sity Con­sul­tancy (TBC) works with finan­cial, indus­try, gov­ern­ment and NGO sec­tors in pro­vid­ing con­ser­va­tion sci­ence and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment exper­tise to meet … Con­tinue read­ing →

New report on strengthening the implementation of the mitigation hierarchy by Hayes et al.

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Thanks to Genevieve Hayes and Samir Whitaker from BirdLife for shar­ing their lat­est report on the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy. Over a period of 9 months the team (BirdLife Inter­na­tional, United Nations Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­gramme – World Con­ser­va­tion Mon­i­tor­ing Cen­tre (UNEP-WCMC), Royal Soci­ety … Con­tinue read­ing →

Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, May 2015

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BBOP newslet­ters are usu­ally a great resource car­ry­ing a wealth of infor­ma­tion. Since the last newslet­ter came in in Sep­tem­ber 2014 (see my post) the one that came in some days ago has been waited for.  It includes sec­tions on BBOP … Con­tinue read­ing →

Peru develops a framework for No Net Loss

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The Gov­ern­ment of Peru has been devel­op­ing a national frame­work for No Net Loss of bio­di­ver­sity, which cul­mi­nated in the release of a Min­is­te­r­ial Res­o­lu­tion on bio­di­ver­sity com­pen­sa­tion dur­ing the UNFCCC dur­ing the COP20 in Decem­ber 2014 in Lima. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards Review update

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Phase 2 of the World Bank envi­ron­men­tal and social safe­guards review closed on 1 March, 2015. More than 2,500 pages of feed­back were received from the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the first draft frame­work of the Bank’s social safe­guard poli­cies. Under … Con­tinue read­ing →