Monthly Archives: June 2015

Biodiversity Law (including biodiversity offsets) under Development in France

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French bio­di­ver­sity pol­icy has been evolv­ing and strength­en­ing since 1976, when the “Law on Nature Pro­tec­tion”, pro­vided the first men­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy and stip­u­lated that all devel­op­ments required an EIA. More recent guid­ance on the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy pub­lished by … Con­tinue read­ing →

2014 IUCN World Parks Congress launches dialogue on biodiversity offsets

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Held once every 10 years, the 2014 World Parks Con­gress in Novem­ber 2014 attracted 6,000 par­tic­i­pants from 170 coun­tries, and secured more than 70 new major con­ser­va­tion com­mit­ments, includ­ing Gabon’s promise to pro­tect 23% of its coast­line, and the Elion … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Natural Capital: valuing our planet” — new book by Dieter Helm

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Pro­fes­sor Dieter Helm, Chair­man of the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Com­mit­tee, has released ‘Nat­ural Cap­i­tal – valu­ing our planet’, a book pub­lished by Yale Uni­ver­sity Press and fol­low­ing closely the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Com­mit­tee in its recent report to the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Third State of Natural Capital Report from England’s Natural Capital Committee

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On 27 Jan­u­ary 2015, England’s Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Com­mit­tee (NCC) pub­lished its third State of Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Report. The NCC’s man­date is to “advise the Gov­ern­ment on how to ensure England’s ‘nat­ural wealth’ is man­aged effi­ciently and sus­tain­ably, thereby unlock­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties … Con­tinue read­ing →

IUCN webinar (11 June) on ‘No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact Approaches for Biodiversity: exploring the potential application of these approaches in the commercial agriculture and forestry sectors’

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IUCN has pub­lished a report enti­tled: No Net Loss and Net Pos­i­tive Impact Approaches for Bio­di­ver­sity: Explor­ing the poten­tial appli­ca­tion of these approaches in the com­mer­cial agri­cul­ture and forestry sec­tors (see also my recent post on this) IUCN’s Global Busi­ness and … Con­tinue read­ing →

A la espera de los Bancos de Conservación de la Naturaleza (Waiting for conservation banks in Spain) — a guest post by Alfonso Carretero

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This is a guest post by Alfonso Car­retero who holds a master’s degree in con­ser­va­tion biol­ogy and in envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment from Uni­ver­si­dad Com­plutense de Madrid (Spain) and Insti­tuto Supe­rior del Medio Ambi­ente in coop­er­a­tion with Nebrija Busi­ness School. This com­ment has … Con­tinue read­ing →

Presentation on Biodiversity Offsetting Practice – Western Sydney, Australia on Vimeo

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Find fol­low­ing the link to a video of a pre­sen­ta­tion on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Prac­tice in West­ern Syd­ney. The pre­sen­ta­tion was held by Tom Grosskopf and Derek Steller from the NSW Office of Envi­ron­ment and Her­itage. For some broad infor­ma­tion … Con­tinue read­ing →