Workshop on biodiversity offsets and habitat banking on September 20, 2016 in Barcelona (Spain)

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2016_09_06_No-Perdida-Neta-BiodiversidadThe Depart­ment for Sus­tain­abil­ity of the Direc­ción de Políti­cas Ambi­en­tales de la Gen­er­al­i­tat de Cataluña (Barcelona, Spain) is orga­niz­ing a work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and habi­tat bank­ing (in Span­ish), enti­tled “Hacia la No Pér­dida Neta de bio­di­ver­si­dad en la eval­u­ación ambi­en­tal: Medi­das com­pen­sato­rias y ban­cos de con­ser­vación de la nat­u­raleza”. Speak­ers include Fer­ran Miralles, David Alvarez, Ana Vil­laroya, Sebas­t­ian Win­kler and Louis da Sousa. for more infor­ma­tion see below and check on Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente: http://www.mercadosdemedioambiente.com/actualidad/hacia-la-no-perdida-neta-de-biodiversidad-en-la-evaluacion-ambiental-medidas-compensatorias-y-bancos-de-conservacion-de-la-naturaleza/.

When: Sep­tem­ber 20, 2016

Where: Sala Pierre de Cou­bertin del Museo y Cen­tro de Estu­dios del Deporte Mer­cior Colet de Barcelona

How: Open to the pub­lic. Si te interesa asi­s­tir, ponte en con­tacto con la orga­ni­zación en el sigu­iente correo elec­trónico: sp.tes@gencat.cat.

SHORT INFO: When biodiversity offsetting can benefit nature

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What’s it about in short: Giv­ing exam­ples from the UK con­text (Net­work Rail), Julia Baker argues that there are sit­u­a­tions when the frame­work for bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting can ben­e­fit nature — and help us achieve our 2020 tar­get of halt­ing bio­di­ver­sity loss.

When was it released: Sep­tem­ber, 2016

By whom: IALE UK, Julia Baker

More info: http://iale.uk/biodiversity-offsetting-better-nature, see also the related LinkedIn dis­cus­sion Con­tinue read­ing →

SHORT INFO: Confronting threats to marine ecosystems through the use of biodiversity offsets

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marine offsetsWhat’s it about in short: infor­ma­tion on marine bio­di­ver­sity off­sets (via a related sym­po­sium and BBOP webinar)

When was it released: August 18, 2016

By whom: Nicki Shumway

More info: Pre­sen­ta­tion by Nicole Shumway, http://brisbane2016.scboceania.org/sessions/confronting-threats-to-marine-ecosystems-through-the-use-of-biodiversity-offsets/ Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity offsets at EcoSummit 2016 in Montpellier

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IMG_7534Today the 5th Inter­na­tional Eco­Sum­mit was opened in Corum Con­gress Cen­ter in Mont­pel­lier (France). There will be a few pre­sen­ta­tions on impact assessment/mitigation and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets — most notably a ses­sion on “Euro­pean per­spec­tives and global chal­lenges on achiev­ing no net loss of bio­di­ver­sity in the con­text of devel­op­ment” that I am orga­niz­ing together with Wolf­gang Wende (IOER) and Fabien Quétier (Biotope) — look­ing very much for­ward and hope­fully share the pre­sen­ta­tions with you afterwards.

For the moment you can also refer to the ses­sion infor­ma­tion and line-up of speak­ers below. Con­tinue read­ing →

BBOP webinar on Wednesday, August 3, 2016: Avoidance in the implementation of wetland law and policy

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bbop-logoThere’s another BBOP webi­nar upcom­ing, tomor­row, 3 August.

Avoid­ance is meant to be the first and most impor­tant step in the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy. In prac­tice how­ever, some decision-makers often fail to pri­or­i­tize avoid­ance and min­i­miza­tion efforts prior to off­set­ting, or sim­ply skip this crit­i­cal step. Shari Clare (PhD, PBiol, Sr. Biol­o­gist and Owner of Fiera Bio­log­i­cal Con­sult­ing Ltd., Adjunct Pro­fes­sor in the Fac­ulty of Agri­cul­ture, Life and Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Alberta, Edmon­ton, Alberta, Canada), has stud­ied this issue in the con­text of wet­lands in Alberta. In this webi­nar she’ll present the find­ings from the paper “Where is the avoid­ance in the imple­men­ta­tion of wet­land law and pol­icy?” and share thoughts on recent developments.

As usual the webi­nar is part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later).

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NEW ARTICLE: Seeking convergence on the key concepts in ‘no net loss’ policy

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paper bull et al 2016Author(s): Joseph W. Bull, Ascelin Gor­don, James E. M. Wat­son and Mar­tine Maron

Title: Seek­ing con­ver­gence on the key con­cepts in ‘no net
loss’ policy

Year: 2016

In: Jour­nal of Applied Ecol­ogy, DOI:10.1111/1365–2664.12726. Pub­lished online: 14 July 2016

Pages: 8 pages.

Pub­li­ca­tion type: jour­nal article

Lan­guage: English

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365–2664.12726/full  (open access full text)

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SHORT INFO: French Biodiversity Law adopted — what’s new?

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biodiversity law FranceWhat’s it about in short: 

The French national Assem­bly has adopted the new bio­di­ver­sity law, which now also includes the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy in order to reach the goal of NO NET LOSS (or prefer­ably NET GAIN) of bio­di­ver­sity: « Ce principe implique d’éviter les atteintes à la bio­di­ver­sité et aux ser­vices qu’elle four­nit ; à défaut, d’en réduire la portée ; enfin, en dernier lieu, de com­penser les atteintes qui n’ont pu être évitées ni réduites, en ten­ant compte des espèces, des habi­tats naturels et des fonc­tions écologiques affectées. »

When was it released: July 22, 2016

By whom: Assem­blée nationale (France)

More info: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0803.asp see also:

Ce que con­tient la nou­velle loi sur la biodiversité

L’Assemblée nationale a défini­tive­ment adopté le 20 juil­let la loi sur la bio­di­ver­sité. Digne suc­cesseur de la loi de 1976, outil pour mas­quer la dégra­da­tion con­tinue de l’environnement ou mise sous cloche de la nature ? Les avis sont partagés.

La loi bio­di­ver­sité intro­duit des dis­po­si­tions con­tro­ver­sées sur la com­pen­sa­tion écologique

La loi sur la bio­di­ver­sité autorise la com­pen­sa­tion écologique par l’acquisition d’unités de com­pen­sa­tion. Des cri­tiques s’élèvent con­tre le principe même de la com­pen­sa­tion et con­tre le risque de finan­cia­ri­sa­tion de la nature.

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SHORT INFO: Sequence ERC dans “Examens environnementaux de l’OCDE : France 2016″

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What’s it about in short: 

Le 11 juil­let, l’OCDE a présenté à la France ses con­clu­sions et recom­man­da­tions quant à la per­for­mance de notre pays en matière d’environnement. Tous les dix ans, l’OCDE réalise en effet un « exa­men » de la per­for­mance envi­ron­nemen­tale de ses mem­bres, ce qui per­met de val­oriser les expéri­ences pos­i­tives (et néga­tives) de nom­breux pays et d’appuyer les gou­verne­ments dans l’élaboration de leurs politiques.

En 2016, Biotope a été très impliqué dans la rédac­tion du chapitre sur la bio­di­ver­sité de l’Examen (chapitre 5). Fabien Quétier a ainsi pu présen­ter les con­clu­sions et recom­man­da­tions con­cer­nant la prise en compte de la bio­di­ver­sité dans l’aménagement du ter­ri­toire, via la séquence « éviter – réduire – com­penser » (sequence ERC), lors de la réu­nion du Groupe de Tra­vail sur l’Environnement de l’OCDE (mars 2016) et lors de la pub­li­ca­tion défini­tive de l’examen (juil­let 2016).

When was it released: July, 2016

By whom: BIOTOPE

More info: http://www.oecd.org/fr/environnement/examens-environnementaux-de-l-ocde-france-2016–9789264252592-fr.htm and http://www.biotope.fr/fr/lexperience-de-biotope-au-service-de-locde Con­tinue read­ing →

SHORT INFO: Think Net Positive! — talk by Kerry ten Kate

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What’s it about in short: Kerry ten Kate speaks on

When was it released: June 21, 2016

By whom: Kerry ten Kate gives a vibrant talk on net pos­i­tive impact on bio­di­ver­sity and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets as part of the mit­i­ga­tion hierarchy

More info: https://youtu.be/LLZ-cHR74x8 Con­tinue read­ing →

SHORT INFO: new paper joining biodiversity offsets and natural capital

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What’s it about in short: New paper join­ing bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and nat­ural capital

When was it released: July 8, 2016

By whom: Joël Houdet, Fabien Quétier, Helen Ding

More info: http://naturalcapitalcoalition.org/net-impact-accounting-for-renewable-natural-capital-possible-pathways-for-corporate-level-disclosure/ Con­tinue read­ing →