Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia and Chloe Hill, Green Economy Technical Advisor for WWF Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cambodia are the editors of a new book on payments for ecosystem services that has been published in association with IUCN and UNEP, end … Continue reading
Recently, the IUCN Technical Study Group on Biodiversity Offsets has published some new resources (see also my previous posts Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Paper and Biodiversity Offsets: Policy options for governments). Thanks to Patrick at the BBOP Secretariat for sharing … Continue reading
Recently, the IUCN Technical Study Group on Biodiversity Offsets has published some new resources (see also my previous post: Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Paper). Thanks to Patrick at the BBOP Secretariat for sharing this useful information The present report on … Continue reading
The European Business and Biodiversity (B@B) Platform has published a report entitled “B@B Workstream 1: Natural Capital Accounting for Business: Guide to selecting an approach”. The report is the outcome of the work conducted on the Natural Capital Accounting Workstream … Continue reading
The Canadian NGO Ontario Nature has recently released a report entitled “Insights into Biodiversity Offsetting in Ontario”. The report is the outcome of a project on biodiversity offsetting (started in July 2013), which was supported by the Metcalf Foundation. It … Continue reading
The question whether accountants “can save the planet” as the subtitle of the new book by Jane Gleeson-White (“Six Capitals. The revolution capitalism has to have — or can accountants save the planet?”) suggests, points to the core of the … Continue reading
Sarah Benabou has published a new paper on “Making Up for Lost Nature? A Critical Review of the International Development of Voluntary Biodiversity Offsets” in Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 5, Number 1, 2014, pp. 103–123(21). You can access the … Continue reading
This is a guest post by The Biodiversity Consultancy, a UK-based consultancy specialized in biodiversity offsets. This is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and as such is acknowledged as a fruitful contribution to the discussion on biodiversity … Continue reading
IUCN has presented the latest report by its Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group at the IUCN World Parks Congress (12 - 19 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia). Lead authors Kerry ten Kate and John Pilgrim together with various contributing authors have written more … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Joël Houdet, Senior Research Fellow at African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Johannesburg (South Africa). For any further information, please contact Joël directly. Call for issue papers: Responsible Natural Resource Economies in Africa. The African Center for Technology Studies … Continue reading