What are your ideas for new polls on the Biodiversity Offsets Blog?

As a reg­u­lar or occa­sional vis­i­tor to the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog, you have cer­tainly noticed (and hope­fully par­tic­i­pated in) the brief one-question mul­ti­ple choice online poll included in the top right side­bar (this time it’s two ques­tions to be exact). … Con­tinue read­ing

Integrating social gains with ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity — a comment by Victoria Griffiths

This is a guest post by Vic­to­ria Grif­fiths, PhD Stu­dent at Impe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don (UK). This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is acknowl­edged as a fruit­ful con­tri­bu­tion to the dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing

Blogs on Biodiversity Offsets

There are a num­ber of blogs on Bio­di­ver­sity off­sets out there in the inter­net if you google a bit. How­ever, as most of the infor­ma­tion on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets is rather frag­mented (with the exep­tion of the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets for Ecosystem Services — new discussion on LinkedIn

Lau­rence Barea has started a new dis­cus­sion in the BBOP NO Net Loss Dis­cus­sion Group on LinkedIn. The focus is on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets for Ecosys­tem Ser­vices. The New Zealand Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion is inter­ested in exam­ples where off­sets have been … Con­tinue read­ing

George Monbiot’s criticism on Biodiversity Offsets and the Natural Capital Agenda: “The pricing of Everything”

Crit­i­cism on the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Agenda and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets George Mon­biot has pre­sented a detailed (how­ever mostly neg­a­tive) analy­sis of his crit­i­cism on the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Agenda (in the UK) includ­ing Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets as one part of it at his … Con­tinue read­ing