I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webi­nar being held this Friday.

This time the topic is: “A National Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Scheme for Liberia’s Min­ing Sec­tor”. Sally John­son, Con­sul­tant, and lead author of a recent World Bank report, and Kirsten Hund, Senior Min­ing Spe­cial­ist at the World Bank will dis­cuss the advan­tages and risks for both con­ser­va­tion and eco­nomic devel­op­ment of a national bio­di­ver­sity off­sets scheme for Liberia.

As usual the webi­nar is part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later).

When and how does the BBOP webi­nar take place?

Some infor­ma­tion on the BBOP webinar

 Liberia emerged from civil war in 2003 as one of the poor­est coun­tries in the world, with an annual GDP per capita of US$135 and a level of unem­ploy­ment esti­mated to be 86 per­cent. The Liber­ian econ­omy has also been sig­nif­i­cantly affected by the Ebola epi­demic. The Min­ing sec­tor has the poten­tial to become a sig­nif­i­cant engine for growth and broader-based devel­op­ment. Yet, in can also be a threat to the last exten­sive for­est areas in West Africa.

  The World Bank has pub­lished a report which explores the fea­si­bil­ity of imple­ment­ing a national bio­di­ver­sity off­set scheme in Liberia to help min­i­mize adverse impacts on bio­di­ver­sity and ecosys­tem ser­vices result­ing from min­ing. This scheme could over­come some of the lim­i­ta­tions of project-specific bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and at the same time pro­vide an oppor­tu­nity for the pri­vate sec­tor to con­tribute to an under­funded pro­tected areas network.

  Sally John­son, Con­sul­tant, and lead author of the report, and Kirsten Hund, Senior Min­ing Spe­cial­ist at the World Bank will dis­cuss the advan­tages and risks for both con­ser­va­tion and eco­nomic devel­op­ment of a national bio­di­ver­sity off­sets scheme for Liberia.  What works, what hasn’t worked, what are the risks, and could national bio­di­ver­sity off­set mech­a­nisms be an oppor­tu­nity for the World Bank to pro­mote inclu­sive green growth in hydro­car­bon and min­eral depen­dent economies?