A method for calculating minimum biodiversity offset multipliers — new paper by Laitila, Moilanen and Pouzols

Jussi  Laitila, Atte Moila­nen and Fed­erico M. Pouzols have pub­lished a new paper on “A method for cal­cu­lat­ing min­i­mum bio­di­ver­sity off­set mul­ti­pli­ers account­ing for time dis­count­ing, addi­tion­al­ity, and per­ma­nence” in Meth­ods in Ecol­ogy and Evo­lu­tion. Read more here and find … Con­tinue read­ing

Report on guidance for biodiversity compensation in Dutch businesses (BioCom Project)

This is our first guest post, by Jolanda van Schaick from Dutch con­sul­tancy CREM! Our world­wide eco­nomic activ­i­ties have reper­cus­sions on bio­di­ver­sity. Plant and ani­mal species are dis­ap­pear­ing at an ever increas­ing rate and the nat­ural resources of our world are becom­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, September 2014

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

PhD study: Biodiversity Offsets for moving conservation targets

Another PhD on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets was pub­lished this year. Joe Bull has pre­pared his work at Impe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don, Depart­ment of Life Sci­ences.  His work focuses on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets for mov­ing con­ser­va­tion tar­gets. He exam­ines the case of the Saiga Ante­lope in the … Con­tinue read­ing

Will the Great Barrier Reef die off: How harmful are coastal development activities and can Marine Biodiversity Offsets be effective?

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

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

“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”

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

Biodiversity Offsets — A collection of news by Carlos Ferreira on Scoop.it

I usu­ally stroll through the net search­ing for news on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. Actu­ally I have the feel­ing that I don’t need to search for the news any­more, but the news “find me”. I come across an inter­est­ing arti­cle, a new … 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

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

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