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 News,
• pub­li­ca­tions and tools,
• pol­icy devel­op­ments and
• upcom­ing events.

The full newslet­ter will be avail­able soon on the BBOP web­site. I have extracted some infor­ma­tion for you below — how­ever most of the infor­ma­tion has already been cov­ered on the Bio­di­ver­sity Blog in other posts over the months (this is a great val­i­da­tion of the work that I put into this :o)).

BBOP news

This sec­tion sum­ma­rizes recent BBOP Com­mu­nity of Prac­tice webi­nars (all of which are cov­ered here on the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog). It informs avout a new mem­ber to the BBOP Advi­sory Group (Total) and wel­comes the new New BBOP Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee members.

Pub­li­ca­tions and Tools

IUCN launched three stud­ies on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets at the World Parks Con­gress (see my posts on them here:

• Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Tech­ni­cal Study Paper — new IUCN report out and
• Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets: Pol­icy options for gov­ern­ments. An input paper for the IUCN Tech­ni­cal Study Group on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets and
• Tech­ni­cal con­di­tions for pos­i­tive out­comes from bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. An input paper for the IUCN Tech­ni­cal Study Group on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets)

There is also another IUCN report which explores the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties of the com­mer­cial agri­cul­ture and forestry sec­tors adopt­ing No Net Loss (NNL) and Net Pos­i­tive Impact (NPI) approaches that hith­erto have been applied pri­mar­ily in the extrac­tives and infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment sec­tors (see my post No Net Loss and Net Pos­i­tive Impact Approaches for Bio­di­ver­sity — new IUCN study explores the poten­tial for agri­cul­ture and forestry)

Fur­ther­more a paper by Cur­ran et al. (2014) is men­tioned (see my post: Is there any empir­i­cal sup­port for bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy? — paper by Cur­ran, Hell­weg and Beck).

Two inter­est­ing pub­li­ca­tions on nat­ural cap­i­tal are presented:

1. The Third State of Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Report from England’s Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Com­mit­tee (see my post on this)
   
2. No net loss in other words — a book by Pro­fes­sor Dieter Helm, Chair­man of the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Com­mit­tee based on the premise that ‘the aggre­gate level of nat­ural cap­i­tal should not decline’: ‘Nat­ural Cap­i­tal – valu­ing our planet’ (see my post on this)
   

Pol­icy Developments

This sec­tion on pol­icy devel­op­ment is def­i­nitely the the most inter­est­ing part of the newslet­ter — inform­ing about the lat­est devel­op­ments in France, Peru and the EU as well as on the 2014 IUCN World Parks Con­gress and the World Bank Safe­guards Review update. Because these pol­icy devel­op­ments are of major inter­est, I have cov­ered each of them in a sep­a­rate post:

• Bio­di­ver­sity Law (includ­ing bio­di­ver­sity off­sets) under Devel­op­ment in France and
• 2014 IUCN World Parks Con­gress launches dia­logue on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and
• World Bank Envi­ron­men­tal and Social Safe­guards Review update and
• Peru devel­ops a frame­work for No Net Loss and

regard­ing the EU No Net Loss Ini­tia­tive, see my related post on the results of the pub­lic con­sutl­ta­tion: Results of the No Net Loss Pub­lic Con­sul­ta­tion now avail­able online!

 Next, the Com­mis­sion will develop an impact assess­ment on the pol­icy options for the No Net Loss ini­tia­tive. As fore­seen in the EU Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy to 2020, the No Net Loss ini­tia­tive is expected in 2016, once the Euro­pean Commission’s Reg­u­la­tory Fit­ness and Per­for­mance review of the Birds and Habi­tats Direc­tives has been completed.

Upcom­ing Events