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
Here are some presentations that I have given since 2008 in the field of biodiversity offsets and impact mitigation. Most of them are English, however some of them are German. And here is also the link to a webinar that … Continue reading
There are a number of blogs on Biodiversity offsets out there in the internet if you google a bit. However, as most of the information on biodiversity offsets is rather fragmented (with the exeption of the Business and Biodiversity Offset … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Biodiversity Offsets and BBOP If you enter “biodiversity offsets” in Google the first results that you obtain are from the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP). The BBOP platform (pronounced “beebop”) is in place since 2004 and has recently celebrated its … Continue reading