I’d this great initiative, it’s will an honour for me if I see my name listed as Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set experts based on Morocco? I’m am cur­rently work­ing essentially on plant ecology, plant diversity and rangeland rehabilitation. I don’t know if I will able to con­tribute as part of the blog yet, because of my full engagement on PHD that I have to finish this year, but I will try as possible.

Thanks Marianne to get me involved to this blog!

Cordially

HOMRANI BAKALI Abdelmonaim

Could you please add my name to the list of Biodiversity Offset experts? Based in Spain, I am currently working on the development of Biodiversity Action Plans, Mitigation Hierarchy and Biodiversity offsets for the infrastructures and O&G sector, and being part of this exchange community looks very interesting to me. I would be interested in posting some of my thoughts after some time trying to implement offsets measures, as a result of EIA processes and voluntary investments on biodiversity restoration from companies, as a CSR outcome.

Thanks and congratulations for the blog!
Rodrigo Fernandez-Mellado
Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment Consultant.
https://es.linkedin.com/in/rodrigofernandezmellado

I am based in Australia. My work focuses on negotiating with state/territory and federal governments, project managing indirect offset programs and project managing/developing solutions for direct offset programs in terrestrial and marine environments. Unfortunately I dont have a linkedin (or similar) profile as yet, although I am happy for others to email me if they want to know more about what I do specifially.

A short abstract for my PhD is:
The term ‘environmental offset’ is used to describe a program that offsets some form of environmental damage, usually caused by some form of development, at one site with environmental improvement and/or protection at another site. Importantly, environmental offsets allow social and economic needs for development to be met whilst addressing ecological concerns and maintaining biodiversity.
Globally, environmental offsets are a relatively new concept and are undergoing a process of refinement and maturation. As such, there are several gaps in the ways that environmental offsets policies and requirements have been applied in different jurisdictions both around Australia and internationally. In particular, gaps exist in relation to mechanisms or metrics that ensure the effectiveness of environmental offsets packages in creating a balance between economic prosperity, social improvement and conservation of the ecological assets.
This project will address these gaps by discovering how environmental offset have developed over time, compare between different jurisdictions and how effective these offset requirements are in achieving their overarching goals. This information will then be used to develop models for effective offset packages in both in both terrestrial and marine environments with objective and measurable metrics for assessment.

I hope this helps. I am happy to provide more information about the questions I will specifically address if you wish.

Thanks,

Linda

Happy to hear back from you!

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

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.