We need more dis­cus­sion around off­set imple­men­ta­tion and total foot­print (bio capacité)

Hi There

I am a new PhD stu­dent look­ing at bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting. I have drafted a blog, how can I go about send­ing it to you for uploading?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Victoria

The Nat­ural Reserve “Buenos Aires” from 1916 when my grand­fa­ther bought this prop­erty have retained about 90% in lightly tapped native forests and have paid atten­tion to the gen­er­a­tion of goods and ecosys­tem ser­vices within their peas­ant wis­dom and since 2001 we are reg­is­tered Nature Reserve of Civil Soci­ety to the Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment of Colom­bia, gen­er­ates envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices such as CO2 cap­ture, pro­duc­tion of oxy­gen, water pro­duc­tion of its mul­ti­ple births, which form the Pajonales streams that empty into the river Sabale­taz and Honda which flows the river Cer­rito, A local aque­duct to sup­ply water of excel­lent qual­ity at three small vil­lages that uses a small part of the Pajonales bro­ken, water has excel­lent physical-chemical analy­sis by a local envi­ron­men­tal author­ity, which con­tains lots of min­er­als, trace ele­ments and won­der­ful PH 7.9, Colom­bians remain in a per­ma­nent state of meta­bolic aci­do­sis (pH below 7) when the opti­mal human PH is 7.42. There­fore, when con­sumers drink this water improve their health, some­thing like “A Nat­ural Func­tional Food”; Con­ser­va­tion of bio­di­ver­sity in sup­port of world food secu­rity; Organic farm­ing on a small scale; Ero­sion con­trol and soil gen­er­a­tion; Con­trol of gases and cli­mate change; Bio­log­i­cal con­trol; Genebanks “IN-SITU” and “ex situ” of plants with poten­tial phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and indus­trial processes such as food and feed; Reg­u­lat­ing the water cycle and dis­as­ter pre­ven­tion; Habi­tat for wildlife; very good wood for indus­try (about 26 ecosys­tem ser­vices).
 
Cli­mate change
In the Nat­ural Reserve of the Civil Soci­ety “Buenos Aires” (184 hectares) is look­ing Adapt ecosys­tems through con­ser­va­tion, restora­tion and sus­tain­able man­age­ment for opti­mal and healthy state; In turn ecosys­tems for adap­ta­tion to cli­mate change, with these healthy ecosys­tems pro­vide a wide bio­di­ver­sity and its bio­log­i­cal func­tions are the gen­er­a­tion of envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices, which become excel­lent pos­i­tive exter­nal­i­ties that enhance the degree of resilience and decrease vul­ner­a­bil­ity of social, eco­nomic and nat­ural systems.

The water foot­print:
eg for a kilo­gram of sugar is 1500 liters when a mill exports or sold in the domes­tic mar­ket one (1) ton of sugar are included 1500 M3 vir­tual water, which is the water needed to grow and process the indis­pens­able rod for pro­duce that ton of sugar, the water foot­print con­sists of green water that would rain­wa­ter, blue water would be the sur­face water and water extracted from aquifers which pro­ceeds of ecosys­tems and water sources that are at the top of the basin being the major con­trib­u­tors and finally gray water which con­sists of waste water used for irri­ga­tion or the amount of clean water required to dilute pol­lu­tants, when farm­ers use waste­water are exposed to high risks and costs such as soil salin­iza­tion, pos­si­ble ill­nesses and deaths in some cases staff irri­ga­tion and tillage con­ta­gion of dan­ger­ous bac­te­ria such as Staphy­lo­coc­cus aureus, of which I was aware of some cases.
 
The Eco­log­i­cal Foot­print
prod­ucts and ser­vices com­pa­nies will soon vital to mea­sure the level of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment achieved indi­ca­tor and busi­nesses are depen­dent on the resources and envi­ron­men­tal ser­vices of ecosys­tems and also as actions, emis­sions and waste com­pa­nies impact­ing ecosys­tem (soil, rivers, oceans, air, forests). Reduce the Eco­log­i­cal Foot­print does not only depend on how good the com­pany detect­ing inef­fi­cien­cies and solu­cionán­dolas, but it will also depend on the abil­ity to inno­vate, is where the largest num­ber of busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties is that nature is a source inex­haustible knowl­edge and inno­va­tion are barely start­ing to explode as the Biocomercio.

Hi Mar­i­anne,

This is a great col­lab­o­ra­tive initative!

I’m an envi­ron­men­tal advi­sor man­ag­ing off­set pro­grams for an oil and gas com­pany as well as a stu­dent cur­rently under­tak­ing my PhD on envi­ron­men­tal off­sets (the title of my project is “The cost/benefit of envi­ron­men­tal off­sets, and the opti­mi­sa­tion of eco­log­i­cal, eco­nomic and social pri­or­i­ties.”). I dont know if Im able to con­tribute as part of the blog yet, but I would like to be listed on your stu­dents or experts page if possible.

Thanks,

Linda