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
Category Archives: Sources on Biodiversity Offsets
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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” 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 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