NATUE ALERT — last three days of the public consultation as part of the ‘fitness check’ for EU nature legislation (Birds Directive, Habitats Directive)

For the past three months the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion has held a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion as part of the ‘fit­ness check’ for EU nature leg­is­la­tion (Birds Direc­tive, Habi­tats Direc­tive — BHD). the BHD and related Natura 2000 net­work are a unique tool … 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

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

This is the first 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

Information event on the EU’s new Natural Capital Financing Facility (NCFF) on 8 May in Brussels

“To pro­tect the diver­sity of our nat­ural sur­round­ings we need to pro­mote the diver­sity of our fund­ing sources. The Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Financ­ing Facil­ity is a new EU fund­ing source that helps busi­nesses to pro­tect nature and adapt to cli­mate change. … Con­tinue read­ing

Launch of “La Mirada de Mercados de Medio Ambiente” newsletter — a guest post by Mercados de Medio Ambiente

This is a guest post by Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente, a plat­form for the pro­mo­tion of envi­ron­men­tal mar­kets by Span­ish con­sul­tancy ECOACSA. This com­ment has pre­vi­ously been pub­lished on Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente. It is the expres­sion of the author’s … Con­tinue read­ing

Decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts is purely NONSENSE — insights from the first Dresden Nexus Conference

The last few days I was attend­ing the first Dres­den Nexus Con­fer­ence. The event, co-organized by Leib­niz Insti­tute of Eco­log­i­cal Urban and Regional Devel­op­ment (my insti­tute), United Nations Uni­ver­sity and Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Dres­den (our local uni­ver­sity), uni­fied the catch words … Con­tinue read­ing

Cynical conservation: cartoons on offsetting, ecosystem services and nature conservation

I have recently stum­bled across the works of “Cyn­i­cal con­ser­va­tion”, a car­toon­ist who shares his cyn­i­cal draw­ings on twit­ter. Most likely to be based in the UK, he (?) describes him­self as a “Cyn­i­cal con­ser­va­tion­ist, illus­trat­ing my frus­tra­tions to remain … Con­tinue read­ing