No Net Loss Initiative – risk or chance for nature? Political session of the German green party left the issue biased

Last Fri­day I have been to a polit­i­cal ses­sion orga­nized by the Ger­man Green party (Die Grü­nen) of the Fed­eral Par­lia­ment (Bun­destag) in Berlin. Steffi Lemke, par­lia­men­tary exec­u­tive and speaker for nature con­ser­va­tion poli­cies for the Green party, invited experts … Con­tinue read­ing

Seminar on Biodiversity Offsetting in Paris on September 30, 2014: “Biodiversity Offsetting and sustainable development: a right to destroy, a fool’s bargain or a tool for reconciliation?”

A Ses­sion of the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and Envi­ron­men­tal Eco­nom­ics Sem­i­nar is held in  Paris on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 30, 2014. It is enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: a right to destroy, a fool’s bar­gain or a tool for reconciliation?”

Annual conference of the German Federal Association of Compensation Agencies held in Stuttgart, September 29–30, 2014

The Ger­man Fed­eral Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­pen­sa­tion Agen­cies (Bun­desver­band der Flächenagen­turen BFAD) is hold­ing its annual con­fer­ence, this time in Stuttgart. The two day event will focus on com­pen­sa­tion pools and eco-accounts and include both pre­sen­ta­tions (and dis­cus­sion) as well as … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsetting Workshop in Hatton (UK) on 22nd September 2014

I have recently found the announce­ment of a Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Work­shop in Hat­ton, War­wick­shire (UK) on 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2014 and want to share this infor­ma­tion with you. The work­shop is hosted by CIEEM (Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment). … Con­tinue read­ing

“Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking” — report and findings from a Workshop held by the “Innovation in Governance Research Group”

“Chal­leng­ing futures of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and bank­ing” was the name of a work­shop that was held on 19 April 2013 in Berlin. The work­shop was orga­nized by the ‘Inno­va­tion in Gov­er­nance Research Group’ Berlin  as part of its research on … 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

No Net Loss Conference Conclusions and Summary are out

Follow-up sec­tion avail­able on the web­site of the No Net Loss Con­fer­ence I have just checked the web­site of the “To No Net Loss of Bio­di­ver­sity and Beyond” Con­fer­ence (Lon­don, 3–4 June 2014). There is now a whole follow-up sec­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP holds first No Net Loss Conference on Biodiversity Offsets, June, 3 — 4, 2014, London

Update Sep­tem­ber 2014 There are a whole fol­low up sec­tion (includ­ing sev­eral videos) as well as an exten­sive sum­mary report avail­able. For more infor­ma­tion see my post No Net Loss Con­fer­ence Con­clu­sions and Sum­mary are out. My obser­va­tions on the No Net … Con­tinue read­ing