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

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

Presentation on Biodiversity Offsetting Practice – Western Sydney, Australia on Vimeo

Find fol­low­ing the link to a video of a pre­sen­ta­tion on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Prac­tice in West­ern Syd­ney. The pre­sen­ta­tion was held by Tom Grosskopf and Derek Steller from the NSW Office of Envi­ron­ment and Her­itage. For some broad infor­ma­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets: Opportunities and challenges for their effective design and implementation — resources from an OECD workshop

The OECD has held a work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets on 6–7 Novem­ber 2013 at the OECD Head­quar­ters. The work­shop exam­ined the tech­ni­cal and ana­lyt­i­cal issues related to their effec­tive design and imple­men­ta­tion with an aim to derive insights on and … Con­tinue read­ing

Presentations by Marianne Darbi on Biodiversity Offsets and Impact Mitigation

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

George Monbiot’s criticism on Biodiversity Offsets and the Natural Capital Agenda: “The pricing of Everything”

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

No Net Loss Conference Conclusions and Summary are out

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