Call for abstracts for session on biodiversity offsets at Ecocummit 2016 in Montpellier: European perspectives and global challenges on achieving no net loss of biodiversity in the context of development

ecosummitI am orga­niz­ing a ses­sion on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets for the 2016 Eco­sum­mit to be held in Mont­pel­lier (29 August — 1 Sep­tem­ber 2016 | Le Corum, Mont­pel­lier, France) together with Fabien Quétier and Wolf­gang Wende. The title is: Euro­pean per­spec­tives and global chal­lenges on achiev­ing no net loss of bio­di­ver­sity in the con­text of devel­op­ment. Abstracts can be sub­mit­ted until Feb­ru­ary 15 here.

For more infor­ma­tion see the Eco­sum­mit web­site, the ses­sion descrip­tion below or get in con­tact with me.

Ses­sion description

0128       Euro­pean per­spec­tives and global chal­lenges on achiev­ing no net loss of bio­di­ver­sity in the con­text of development

Loss of bio­di­ver­sity
With bio­di­ver­sity being lost at unprece­dented rate, there is grow­ing con­cern on how to mit­i­gate the unavoid­able impacts of devel­op­ment projects. Along­side with the pro­mo­tion of goals of ‘no net loss’ or ‘net gain’, bio­di­ver­sity off­sets are increas­ingly used to coun­ter­bal­ance these impacts. While off­set frame­works have been put in place in sev­eral coun­tries world­wide (e.g. Ger­many, the US, Aus­tralia, Canada, Brazil), the sub­ject has risen onto the polit­i­cal agenda of the Euro­pean Union in the past years, most notably via the pro­posed No Net Loss Ini­tia­tive, but also in sev­eral mem­ber states (e.g. France, Spain, the UK and Swe­den). This ses­sion aims to bring together the lat­est devel­op­ments from sci­ence, pol­icy and prac­tice from EU mem­ber states and inter­na­tional expe­ri­ence in address­ing the global chal­lenges raised by bio­di­ver­sity off­set poli­cies and their imple­men­ta­tion, includ­ing social, eco­nomic and polit­i­cal aspects as well as tech­ni­cal and sci­en­tific aspects.


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Call for abstracts for session on biodiversity offsets at Ecocummit 2016 in Montpellier: European perspectives and global challenges on achieving no net loss of biodiversity in the context of development — 2 Comments

  1. Would love to par­tic­i­pate in your ses­sion. Let me know the pro­ce­dure for abstract sub­mis­sion. Would like to speak on a case study of wet­land restora­tion in India.

    • Sorry, but the dead­line has expired (just checked it again) and I don’t think the con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers will accept any more sub­mis­sions. But I’ll let you know when there’s an oppor­tu­nity in the near future.

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