Category Archives: Biodiversity Offsets on the ground

This section includes policies and governance as well as worldwide examples. Please keep me uddated on anything that you do not find here so I can include it!

Getting Biodiversity Offsets Right — A Research Agenda for Canada (Policy brief)

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A recent pol­icy brief (Octo­ber 2014) has been pre­pared by Sus­tain­able Pros­per­ity on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in the Cana­dian con­text. See the pdf of the pol­icy brief here and the key mes­sages below. Agenda for Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in Canada_Policy brief_Oct 2014 … Con­tinue read­ing →

Have your say – even if it’s a MAYBE: Consultation on the EU No Net Loss Initiative closes today!

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With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing →

Why would you say YES to the EU No Net Loss Initiative?

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With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing →

Why would you say NO to the EU No Net Loss Initiative?

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With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To reach this goal the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Consultation on the EU No Net Loss Initiative: Biodiversity offsetting can, under certain circumstances, improve nature and biodiversity conservation — a comment by Heidi Wittmer

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This is a guest post by Heidi Wittmer from Helmholtz Cen­tre for Envi­ron­men­tal Research in Ger­many. This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and such is acknowl­edged as a fruit­ful con­tri­bu­tion to the dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. If … Con­tinue read­ing →

BBOP webinar on Monday, October 20, 2014: WWF Colombia work on the Pasto-Mocoa road project

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This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later). This time the focus is … Con­tinue read­ing →

The theory-practice gap in biodiversity offsets — a comment by Alan Key

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This is a guest post by Alan Key from Aus­tralian con­sul­tancy Earth­trade. This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and such is acknowl­edged as a fruit­ful con­tri­bu­tion to the dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. If you want … Con­tinue read­ing →

Take three for Australia’s biodiversity offset policies: Queensland’s new Environmental Offsets regime

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After I have cov­ered the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in New South Wales and the bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy in the Aus­tralian Cap­i­tal Ter­ri­tory in pre­vi­ous posts I would like to point to the New Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Regime for Queens­land. On 1 July … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Say no to more development in the ACT” — or the new biodiversity offset policy will fail

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“This approach – bio­di­ver­sity off­sets – is becom­ing pop­u­lar with gov­ern­ments around the world because it appears to pro­vide a win-win: ongo­ing devel­op­ment with­out fur­ther loss of declin­ing bio­di­ver­sity.” Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Pol­icy in the ACT A bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy is under­way … Con­tinue read­ing →

Good news? Bad news? New biodiversity offset fund released in New South Wales, Australia

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New NSW bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund hits the news Yes­ter­day the news (at least in Aus­tralia) in the off­set­ting world were full of the announce­ment of the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in the state of New South Wales, Aus­tralia. The pol­icy was … Con­tinue read­ing →