About the Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek If you are interested in environmental compensation and biodiversity offsets, there are certainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of information from different sources, locations and viewpoints publicly available (something which wasn’t this … Continue reading
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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
It has been quite a while since the last newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme. So, I was both happy and surprised when the latest newsletter came in last week. It is full of information from the biodiversity … Continue reading
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
About the Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek If you are interested in environmental compensation and biodiversity offsets, there are certainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of information from different sources, locations and viewpoints publicly available (something which wasn’t this … Continue reading
In 2017 American ecologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) develop the groundbreaking technology “GenCalc”. The new calculation method offers the opportunity to initiate transnational biodiversity compensation and credit trading – for the first time without neglecting the complexity … Continue reading
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
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
“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