Gina vs. the reef? A plea for informed debate on biodiversity offsets — new article by Megan Evans

Megan Evans, who writes her PhD at the Aus­tralian National Uni­ver­sity, has pub­lished a nice arti­cle on her blog, try­ing to out­bal­ance a rather poorly inves­ti­gated arti­cle pub­lished in the Guardian on an Aus­tralian coal ter­mi­nal. As she says: I never thought … 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

Nature is not for sale! 2nd Forum on the Natural Commons on 2 June 2014 at the Regent’s Park Hub, London

 Counter event to the No Net Loss Con­fer­ence: 2nd Forum on the Nat­ural Com­mons on 2 June 2014 in Lon­don Crit­ics of Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets have a grow­ing lobby, espe­cially in the UK, where the gov­ern­ment seems to rush want­ing to push … 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