Category Archives: Literature on Biodiversity Offsets

This section will include all literature on biodiversity offsets and impact mitigation that I will stumble upon with a bit of a reviw or brief comment if I find the time. I would be most grateful for hints to any (and I am sure there are a lot) publications, presentations etc. I might not be aware of. Thank you in advance!

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Biodiversity Offsets in Australia — new report finds implementation at state level is poor

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“no state leg­is­la­tion fully meets Com­mon­wealth stan­dards for bio­di­ver­sity off­sets” The report Assess­ment of the ade­quacy of threat­ened species & plan­ning laws has been released by the Places You Love Alliance, a coali­tion of 42 Aus­tralian NGOs. Read more at Blue and Green … Con­tinue read­ing →

New PhD study: “Biodiversity offset markets: current challenges and prospective developments”

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A Report on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Nice to see another PhD in the bio­di­ver­sity off­sets field – with more analy­ses such as this we will be able to have a bet­ter informed dis­cus­sion! Many thanks Car­los! As the PhD is still “fresh” … Con­tinue read­ing →

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

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“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 →

The mitigation hierarchy, a tool to preserve natural habitats — article by the French ministry of the environment

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The French min­istry of the envi­ron­ment (Min­istère de l’Écologie, du Développe­ment durable et de l’Énergie) has recently issued an arti­cle on the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy (called séquence Eviter-Reduire-Compenser — ERC) in France. It is enti­tled “The mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Comparing biodiversity offset calculation methods with a case study in Uzbekistan — new paper by Bull et al

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New paper on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in Bio­log­i­cal Con­ser­va­tion A new paper has been pub­lished by J. W. Bull, E. J. Milner-Gulland, K. B. Sut­tle and N. J. Singh in Bio­log­i­cal Con­ser­va­tion (Vol­ume 178, Octo­ber 2014, Pages 2–10): “Com­par­ing bio­di­ver­sity off­set … Con­tinue read­ing →

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

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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 →

New PhD study on Biodiversity offsets and the supply chain: “Compensating the biodiversity impacts of land use: Toward ecologically equal exchange in the North–South context”

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PhD study on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets I am very happy to see more and more very exten­sive and highly valu­able PhD stud­ies emerge in the off­sets field. One of the lat­est is by Michael Cur­ran pre­pared at the ETH Zurich (Switzer­land). … Con­tinue read­ing →

Doctrine ERC (Eviter-Reduire-Compenser) — Application of the Mitigation Hierarchy in France

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While I know that France has been mak­ing huge efforts to improve impact mit­i­ga­tion and fos­ter bio­di­ver­sity off­sets I just came across some inter­est­ing web­sites by the French Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment (Min­istère de l’écologie, du développe­ment durable et de … Con­tinue read­ing →

New article on Mining and Biodiversity Offsets

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As announced in the BBOP No Net Loss Dis­cus­sion group Malika Virah-Sawmy has pub­lished an arti­cle on “Min­ing and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets: A trans­par­ent and science-based approach to mea­sure no-net-loss”. Here’s the link to the arti­cle https://theconversation.com/does-offsetting-work-to-make-up-for-habitat-lost-to-mining-27699 And here’s the link … Con­tinue read­ing →