SHORT INFO — Potential for Biodiversity Offsets as a Biodiversity Finance Mechanism in India

What’s it about in short: Poten­tial for Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets as a Bio­di­ver­sity Finance Mech­a­nism in India — a pre­sen­ta­tion made at the CBD work­shop on ‘the role of pri­vate sec­tor in achiev­ing national bio­di­ver­sity finance tar­gets’ at CII’s 10th National Sus­tain­abil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Banking Nature: will putting a price on nature protect it?

What’s it about in short: Launch of the doc­u­men­tary “Bank­ing Nature” When was it released: June 27, 2015 By whom: FERN More info: http://www.fern.org/publications/presentations/banking-nature-will-putting-price-nature-protect-it and https://youtu.be/7DoMQ229Vf8 … Con­tinue read­ing

What is biodiversity offsetting? simple 5 min-animation explaining the basic principles and functioning

Flora and Fauna Inter­na­tional have pre­pared a short (less than 5 min) ani­ma­tion explain­ing the impact of human con­sump­tion on nature as well as the basic prin­ci­ples and func­tion­ing of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. The video is sim­ply and nicely illus­trated. To … Con­tinue read­ing

What is the Business Case for Biodiversity Offsets? — my new paper in SQ — raising the sustainability quotient

Some time ago I have been asked by Divya Narain if I could con­tribute an arti­cle to the lat­est issue on busi­ness and bio­di­ver­sity of “SQ — rais­ing the sus­tain­abil­ity quo­tient” –the bul­letin of the Bom­bay Cham­ber of Com­merce and … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar next Thursday, July 30, 2015: The Impacts of Biodiversity Offsets on Protected Areas

There’s another BBOP webi­nar upcom­ing for next week, Thurs­day, July 30. This time the topic is: “The Impacts of Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets on Pro­tected Areas”. Leon Ben­nun of The Bio­di­ver­sity Con­sul­tancy asks under what cir­cum­stances, and sub­ject to what con­di­tions, are pro­tected … Con­tinue read­ing

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part VI (final) — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

This is the sixth and final part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as con­sul­tant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness … Con­tinue read­ing

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part V — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

This is the fifth part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as con­sul­tant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ … Con­tinue read­ing

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part IV — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

This is the fourth part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as con­sul­tant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ mod­els, … Con­tinue read­ing

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part III — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

This is the third part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as con­sul­tant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ mod­els, … Con­tinue read­ing

A Brief Historical Perspective on Natural Capital — Part II — a guest post series by Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira

This is the sec­ond part of a guest post series by Nuno Gas­par de Oliveira who works as.consultant and advi­sor in Esporão, a por­tuguese main wine and olive oil com­pany, in the area of Strate­gic Man­age­ment for sus­tain­abil­ity using ‘Busi­ness Ecosys­tems’ mod­els, This … Con­tinue read­ing