What’s it about in short: new LinkedIn discussion searching for input on the effectiveness of biodiversity offsets in the UK (for a master thesis) When was it released: August 13, 2015 By whom: Christopher Seaton More info: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/5078805–6037256032219078657 … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: lively LinkedIn discussion (~30 comments) on the impact and effectiveness of biodiversity offsets When was it released: August, 2015 By whom: Gordon Gerbitz More info: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4076378–6031468076283752449 … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: letter by organizations and individuals to EU Commission on biodiversity offsetting concerns When was it released: October 20, 2014 By whom: FERN More info: http://www.fern.org/publications/ngo-statements/open-letter-commissioner-poto%C4%8Dnik-about-biodiversity-offsetting and http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/21/stop-biodiversity-offsets-thousands-sign-letter-to-the-european-commission/ … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: unanswered questions on the implementation of biodiversity offsets (in general and in the UK) When was it released: April 20, 2015 By whom: British Ecological Society More info: http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2015/04/20/biodiversity-offsetting-uncertainty-and-unanswered-questions/ … Continue reading
The campaigning NGO FERN, based in the UK and in Brussels, is one of the active opponents of biodiversity offsets. Recently they have published the fourth part of a series on critical briefing notes on biodiversity offsets. This briefing notes … Continue reading
As I have already announced in my latest post, the latest issue of Mission Économie de la Biodiversité’s “BIODIV’2050″ (No. 6 — April 2015) is out. Beside the previously mentioned article entitled “Thinking out the appropriate frameworks: biodiversity offsets and safeguards” another … Continue reading
This is a guest post by James Brown, PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast. This comment has previously been published on QuBio blog of the School of Biological Sciences. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and … Continue reading
As a regular reader of the Biodiversity Offsets Blog you have seen multiple contributions by Carlos Ferreira on this blog which clearly mark his expertise in the field of biodiversity offsets. It is therefore great to note that his doctoral … Continue reading
Recently I found a post on Hot Air (A Client Earth blog) which asks: Does biodiversity offsetting make nature a commodity? In her article Agata Szafraniuk comments on the EU No Net Loss Initiative and gives some conclusions from the … Continue reading
I have been following the work of Megan Evans (who is PhDing at at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia) for quite a while, now. Not only in personal communication or via her publications (by the way, Megan, I should tell … Continue reading