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Job offer on biodiversity offsets: Principal Consultant at the Biodiversity Consultancy, Cambridge (UK)

The Cam­bridge based envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­tancy The Bio­di­ver­sity con­sul­tancy is look­ing for a Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant to join their team. The Bio­di­ver­sity Con­sul­tancy (TBC) works with finan­cial, indus­try, gov­ern­ment and NGO sec­tors in pro­vid­ing con­ser­va­tion sci­ence and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment exper­tise to meet the … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Este paisaje también puede ser un banco

What’s it about in short: arti­cle on the intro­duc­tion of habi­tat bank­ing in Spain (in Span­ish) When was it released: April 21, 2015 By whom: Sara Acosta (Cinco Días) More info: http://cincodias.com/cincodias/2015/04/21/empresas/1429639895_153868.html … Con­tinue read­ing

Biotope is hiring a Chief of Project for the implementation of the mitigation hierarchy (based in Conakry, Guinea)

French envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­tancy Biotope is hir­ing a Chief of Project for the imple­men­ta­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy in Guinea. Flu­ency in French and Eng­lish is a must. Loca­tion: Conakry, Guinea Time­frame: 4 years, start­ing Sep­tem­ber 2015 clos­ing date for appli­ca­tion: not spec­i­fied … Con­tinue read­ing

Job offer on biodiversity offsets at University of Queensland, Australia

Thanks to Mar­tine Maron for shar­ing this recent job offer for a post­doc at Uni­ver­sity of Queens­land, Aus­tralia. Post­doc­toral Research Fel­low Posi­tions: National Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence Pro­gramme – Threat­ened Species Recov­ery Hub We are seek­ing highly moti­vated Post­doc­toral Research Fel­lows (up to five … Con­tinue read­ing

Job offer on biodiversity offsets: Senior Principal Consultant at the Biodiversity Consultancy, Cambridge (UK)

The Cam­bridge based envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­tancy The Bio­di­ver­sity con­sul­tancy is look­ing for a Senior Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant to join their team. The Bio­di­ver­sity Con­sul­tancy (TBC) works with finan­cial, indus­try, gov­ern­ment and NGO sec­tors in pro­vid­ing con­ser­va­tion sci­ence and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment exper­tise to meet … Con­tinue read­ing

Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, May 2015

BBOP newslet­ters are usu­ally a great resource car­ry­ing a wealth of infor­ma­tion. Since the last newslet­ter came in in Sep­tem­ber 2014 (see my post) the one that came in some days ago has been waited for.  It includes sec­tions on BBOP … Con­tinue read­ing

Peru develops a framework for No Net Loss

The Gov­ern­ment of Peru has been devel­op­ing a national frame­work for No Net Loss of bio­di­ver­sity, which cul­mi­nated in the release of a Min­is­te­r­ial Res­o­lu­tion on bio­di­ver­sity com­pen­sa­tion dur­ing the UNFCCC dur­ing the COP20 in Decem­ber 2014 in Lima. The … Con­tinue read­ing

World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards Review update

Phase 2 of the World Bank envi­ron­men­tal and social safe­guards review closed on 1 March, 2015. More than 2,500 pages of feed­back were received from the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the first draft frame­work of the Bank’s social safe­guard poli­cies. Under … Con­tinue read­ing

A la espera de los Bancos de Conservación de la Naturaleza (Waiting for conservation banks in Spain) — a guest post by Alfonso Carretero

This is a guest post by Alfonso Car­retero who holds a master’s degree in con­ser­va­tion biol­ogy and in envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment from Uni­ver­si­dad Com­plutense de Madrid (Spain) and Insti­tuto Supe­rior del Medio Ambi­ente in coop­er­a­tion with Nebrija Busi­ness School. This com­ment has … 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