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

Over the past five years France has reframed a diverse set of sec­to­r­ial reg­u­la­tions (tar­get­ing wood­land, wet­lands, habi­tats and species) into a coher­ent No Net Loss pol­icy, for which guid­ance was pub­lished in 2012 and 2013. In par­al­lel, a num­ber of ini­tia­tives and pilot projects were being imple­mented on par­tic­u­lar dimen­sions of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy, includ­ing pilot “habi­tat banks”. In August 2016, after two years of par­lia­men­tary debates, France approved its new bio­di­ver­sity law. The law states that the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy must aim for No Net Loss or a Net Gain of bio­di­ver­sity and spec­i­fies a num­ber of things regard­ing imple­men­ta­tion, includ­ing intro­duc­ing mit­i­ga­tion banks called “nat­ural off­set­ting areas” (sites naturels de com­pen­sa­tion), and con­ser­va­tion easements.