Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 22–28, 2014

About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek

If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, Biodiversity Offsets Newsweekloca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this easy only a cou­ple of years ago). Now, as has been pointed out (see here) the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog aims to com­pile and some­what struc­ture this infor­ma­tion. But there is not only a wealth of sources already out there on the inter­net, but also new sources are con­tin­u­ously being added. I am fol­low­ing and col­lect­ing the news via Scoop.it and cover the most trend­ing ones in posts on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog. Nev­er­the­less, not all news can be cov­ered (at least not yet) and there­fore the “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek” will list up the head­lines of the past week, together with the links and PDFs of the arti­cles or news (the lat­ter to pre­vent to loose infor­ma­tion — as we know, that unfor­tu­nately every now and then things are being removed from the internet).

This week: Sep­tem­ber 22–28, 2014

This week (Sep­tem­ber 22–28, 2014) held a mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ent bio­di­ver­sity off­set news. First of all, two events on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and the no net loss ini­tia­tive of the EU took place in the UK and Ger­many.  Again, sev­eral arti­cles cov­ered bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in Aus­tralia: on the one hand, Sarah Macoun and Olivia Williamson argue how the pro­posed amend­ments to the Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Act 2014 con­tribute to remov­ing dupli­ca­tion asso­ci­ated with off­set con­di­tions imposed by Com­mon­wealth, State and local gov­ern­ment. On the other hand, the Con­ser­va­tion Coun­cil of the ACT Region states that the recently passed bio­di­ver­sity off­set leg­is­la­tion in the ACT will result in net loss of bio­di­ver­sity in the Can­berra region. Beside some BAU (busi­ness as usual) arti­cles from the UK, namely the “nightin­gales of Lodge Hill” (where a hous­ing devel­op­ment is planned) and Smithy Wood (in which a motor­way ser­vice sta­tion shall be built), and some exam­ples of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and mit­i­ga­tion bank­ing in the US, the most inter­est­ing point is prob­a­bly the advance­ment of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in Latin Amer­ica. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colom­bia, Mex­ico, Peru and Venezuela are the coun­tries with some kind of bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting sys­tem, while Ecuador is study­ing how to imple­ment a mech­a­nism. This Newsweek closes with some bio­di­ver­sity off­set related videos I have found on YouTube and some crit­i­cism on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, e.g. Kumi Naidoo claims that “we can­not accept so-called ‘for­est off­sets’ that allow the fos­sil fuel indus­try to con­tinue polluting”.

Events on Bio­di­ver­sity Offsets

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Work­shop, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2014, Hat­ton (see my post here)

No Net Loss Ini­tia­tive – risk or chance for nature? Polit­i­cal ses­sion of the Ger­man green party, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2014, Berlin (see my post here)

 Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in Australia

Do pro­posed amend­ments to the Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Act 2014 deliver on “nil dupli­ca­tion” of envi­ron­men­tal off­sets? Sep­tem­ber 23, 2014, by Sarah Macoun and Olivia Williamson (see also here and here)

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Do pro­posed amend­ments to the Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Act 2014 deliver on nil dupli­ca­tion of envi­ron­men­tal offsets

Regional focus a key to feed­back, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2014, by Rod­er­ick Makim

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_ Regional focus a key to feedback_Farmers hav­ing their say on Bio­di­ver­sity Leg­is­la­tion Review

Bio­di­ver­sity off­sets leg­is­la­tion will not deliver envi­ron­men­tal out­comes, Sep­tem­ber 23, 2014, media release by Con­ser­va­tion Coun­cil ACT region

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Biodiversity off­sets leg­is­la­tion will not deliver envi­ron­men­tal outcomes

North Galilee Basin rail line receives Fed­eral green light, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by David Chen and Kath­leen Calderwood

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_North Galilee Basin rail line receives Fed­eral green light

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Environment Min­istry OKs 2,2B Noth Galilee Basin Rail Project on 23 Conditions

Adani Min­ing gains approval for $1.94bn coal mine rail project in Aus­tralia, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2014, by Energy Busi­ness Review

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Adani Min­ing gains approval for $1

 Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in Latin America

BIODIVERSITY OFFSETTING ADVANCES IN LATIN AMERICA AMIDST CONTROVERSY, Sep­tem­ber 23, 2014, by Emilio Godoy (see also here and here and here)

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Biodiversity Off­set­ting Advances in Latin Amer­ica Amidst Controversy

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in the UK

Cam­paign to save ancient wood takes hit, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by The York­shire Post

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Campaign to save ancient wood takes hit

Nightin­gales v 5,000 new homes: the bat­tle over the woods of Lodge Hill, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by Patrick Barkham

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Nightingales v 5,000 new homes_ the bat­tle over the woods of Lodge Hill

Weird: UKIP is now the main polit­i­cal party defend­ing Lodge Hill from devel­op­ment, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2014, by Miles King

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Weird_ UKIP is now the main polit­i­cal party defend­ing Lodge Hill from development

Labour com­mits to build­ing 200,000 new homes a year: Great: where? Sep­tem­ber 24, 2014, by Miles King

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Labour com­mits to build­ing 200,000 new homes a year

 Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Exam­ples in the US

New frame­work for trad­ing wet­lands urged, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2014, by agrinews

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_New frame­work for trad­ing wet­lands urged

Envi­ron­men­tal impact of new Rich­land 2 school focus of Wednes­day meet­ing, Sep­tem­ber 24, 2014, by Car­olyn Click

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Environmental impact of new Rich­land 2 school focus of Wednes­day meeting

First phase of Dry Creek makeover nears com­ple­tion, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by Mary Callahan

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_First phase of Dry Creek makeover nears completion

Going and Gone: golf course stuff auc­tioned off, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by J. Harry Jones

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Going and Gone_ golf course stuff auc­tioned of

Videos on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets (on Youtube)

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Fiat Justi­tia with David Takacs, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2014, YouTube Video (3:35 min)

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Fiat Justi­tia with David Takacs 2, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2014, YouTube Video (3:35 min)

The Minmi Link Road Estate — New­cas­tle and The Hunter Val­ley, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, YouTube Video (3:12 min)

Australia’s bio­di­ver­sity: min­ing, Sep­tem­ber 23, 2014, YouTube Video (6:12 min)

Crit­i­cism on Bio­di­ver­sity Offsets

Take action: say no to bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by Friends of the Earth Europe

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Take action_ say no to bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting _ Friends of the Earth Europe

Forests Need Laws, Not Loop­holes, Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, by Kumi Naidoo

Newsweek 22–28 Sep­tem­ber 2014_Forests Need Laws, Not Loopholes

 

 


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