Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 29-October 5, 2014

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About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this easy … Con­tinue read­ing →

BBOP webinar on Monday, October 20, 2014: WWF Colombia work on the Pasto-Mocoa road project

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This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later). This time the focus is … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 22–28, 2014

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About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this easy … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 15–21, 2014

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About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this … Con­tinue read­ing →

Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, September 2014

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It has been quite a while since the last newslet­ter of the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Pro­gramme. So, I was both happy and sur­prised when the lat­est newslet­ter came in last week. It is full of infor­ma­tion from the bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 8–14, 2014

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About the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek If you are inter­ested in envi­ron­men­tal com­pen­sa­tion and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets, there are cer­tainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of infor­ma­tion from dif­fer­ent sources, loca­tions and view­points pub­licly avail­able (some­thing which wasn’t this … Con­tinue read­ing →

Will the Great Barrier Reef die off: How harmful are coastal development activities and can Marine Biodiversity Offsets be effective?

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In 2017 Amer­i­can ecol­o­gists from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) develop the ground­break­ing tech­nol­ogy “Gen­Calc”. The new cal­cu­la­tion method offers the oppor­tu­nity to ini­ti­ate transna­tional bio­di­ver­sity com­pen­sa­tion and credit trad­ing – for the first time with­out neglect­ing the com­plex­ity … Con­tinue read­ing →

Take three for Australia’s biodiversity offset policies: Queensland’s new Environmental Offsets regime

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After I have cov­ered the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in New South Wales and the bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy in the Aus­tralian Cap­i­tal Ter­ri­tory in pre­vi­ous posts I would like to point to the New Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Regime for Queens­land. On 1 July … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Say no to more development in the ACT” — or the new biodiversity offset policy will fail

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“This approach – bio­di­ver­sity off­sets – is becom­ing pop­u­lar with gov­ern­ments around the world because it appears to pro­vide a win-win: ongo­ing devel­op­ment with­out fur­ther loss of declin­ing bio­di­ver­sity.” Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Pol­icy in the ACT A bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy is under­way … Con­tinue read­ing →

Good news? Bad news? New biodiversity offset fund released in New South Wales, Australia

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New NSW bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund hits the news Yes­ter­day the news (at least in Aus­tralia) in the off­set­ting world were full of the announce­ment of the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in the state of New South Wales, Aus­tralia. The pol­icy was … Con­tinue read­ing →