SHORT INFO: Projet de loi pour la reconquête de la biodiversité, de la nature et des paysages

What’s it about in short: pro­jet de loi — pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the French draft bio­di­ver­sity law ends today (includes pro­vi­sions on com­pen­sa­tion measures)

When was it released: Decem­ber 18, 2015

By whom:Joël Labbé

More info: https://www.parlement-et-citoyens.fr/project/projet-de-loi-pour-la-reconquete-de-la-biodiversite-de-la-nature-et-des-paysages/presentation/presentation-et-suivi-6

Link to the con­sul­ta­tion: https://www.parlement-et-citoyens.fr/projects/projet-de-loi-pour-la-reconquete-de-la-biodiversite-de-la-nature-et-des-paysages/consultation/consultation-26 Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Corporate Biodiversity Management: A Framework — a presentation by Divya Narain

What’s it about in short: pre­sen­ta­tion by Divya Narain on Cor­po­rate Bio­di­ver­sity Man­age­ment (thanks Divya for sharing)

When was it released: Jan­u­ary 1, 2016

By whom: Divya Narain, on Slideshare

More info: http://de.slideshare.net/DivyaNarain2/corporate-biodiversity-management-a-framework

SHORT INFO: Why biodiversity loss and climate change are equal threats

What’s it about in short: Robert Bloom­field elab­o­rates on the intere­lat­ed­ness of such cru­cial threats as bio­di­ver­sity loss and cli­mate change.

When was it released: Decem­ber 26, 2015

By whom: Robert Bloom­field, in: The Guardian

More info: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/dec/26/biodiversity-loss-climate-change Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar on Friday, January 15, 2015: Biodiversity Offsets in Chile: from goals to reality

bbop-logoThere’s another BBOP webi­nar upcom­ing, on Jan­u­ary 15.

This time the topic is: “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets in Chile:  from goals to real­ity”. In this webi­nar, Clau­dia Silva, Con­ser­va­tion Strat­egy Coor­di­na­tor of the Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety — Chile, will exam­ine gaps that need to be filled for suc­cess­ful appli­ca­tion of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in Chile, and alter­na­tives to move forward.

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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Biodiversity Offsets Blog wishes you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016!

Happy New Year 2016

Wow, can’t believe it’s been a month I haven’t been blog­ging! I took a cou­ple of weeks off from every­thing pro­fes­sional and spent some cosy time around Christ­mas with my fam­ily. It wasn’t actu­ally planned, but obvi­ously I really needed some rest.

On the 15th of Decem­ber I handed over the first com­plete draft of my PhD the­sis (well, yes, some 360 pages so far) to my super­vi­sor for some feed­back. While that made me happy, I also felt quite exhausted after an intense year of work­ing in research, PhD­ing, blog­ging and some­what get­ting my work-life-balance right (the lat­ter is prob­a­bly most true for most of you, too.

Back in the office I am a bit strug­gling to get back to my ordi­nary work­load (with some dis­tance you start ask­ing your­self who is that crazy per­son who used to do these things ;o). Any­way, I am look­ing for­ward to the New Year. 2016 will surely be an excit­ing one!

I am wish­ing you all a happy new year both in your pri­vate and pro­fes­sional life! 

I also hope you had a pleas­ant fes­tive sea­son and a good start into the new year! I would also like to thank you for your com­mit­ment and exchange in the past year. Per­son­ally, I have got into con­tact with so many peo­ple who are doing a great job and I have had the plea­sure to learn a lot from your expe­ri­ence and knowledge.

Together, let’s help to bet­ter under­stand and bring for­ward the con­cept of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets — there is a lot to learn and to discover!

See also some very sim­pli­fied 2015 site stats here.

Cactus status post #17

I was hur­ry­ing to get a com­plete draft ready of my PhD ready before Christ­mas and finally handed in (only infor­mally though, i.e. to my super­vi­sor) 362 pages with a nice rib­bon around and some dec­o­ra­tion on Decem­ber 15 ;o) No photo of the cac­tus this time as it seems it has ceased grow­ing for the moment…

Decem­ber update:

Cac­tus: 79 cm / PhD: 362 pages

2015, Novem­ber:

Cac­tus: 79 cm / PhD: 351 pages

2015, Octo­ber:

Cac­tus: 79 cm / PhD: 327 pages

2015, Sep­tem­ber:

Cac­tus: 76 cm / PhD: 297 pages

2015, August:

Cac­tus: 74 cm / PhD: 298 pages

2015, July:

Cac­tus: 70 cm / PhD: 305 pages

2015, June:

Cac­tus: 66 cm / PhD: 205 pages

2015, May:

Cac­tus: 61 cm / PhD: 181 pages

2015, April:

Cac­tus: 53 cm / PhD: 171 pages

2015, March:

Cac­tus: 49 cm / PhD: 153 pages

2015, Feb­ru­ary:

Cac­tus: 47 cm / PhD: 145 pages

2015, Jan­u­ary:

Cac­tus: 42 cm / PhD: 139 pages Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Update on New Zealand’s Biodiversity Offsets – from the latest Invercargill Workshop

What’s it about in short: work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in New Zealand

When was it released: Novem­ber 12, 2015

By whom: Jemma Penelope

More info: https://misjpmovesthings.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/update-on-new-zealands-biodiversity-offsets-from-the-latest-invercargil-workshop/ Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: The best things are achieved by banking your offsets, not just trading them

What’s it about in short: com­ment on the recent mem­o­ran­dum of the US pres­i­dent on impact mit­i­ga­tion (includ­ing mit­i­ga­tion bank­ing) in the United States

When was it released: Novem­ber 15, 2015

By whom: Jemma Pene­lope

More info: https://misjpmovesthings.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/the-best-things-are-achieved-by-banking-your-offsets-not-just-trading-them/
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SHORT INFO: Presidential Memorandum: Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment

presidential-sealWhat’s it about in short: On Novem­ber 3 Pres­i­dent Obama issued a mem­o­ran­dum encour­ag­ing a stan­dard set of prac­tices across sev­eral fed­eral depart­ments and agen­cies for the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy, includ­ing offsetting.

When was it released: Novem­ber 3, 2015

By whom: Barack Obama, White House

More info: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/03/mitigating-impacts-natural-resources-development-and-encouraging-related and see also the related LinkedIn dis­cus­sion
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NEW ARTICLE: A World at Risk: Aggregating Development Trends to Forecast Global Habitat Conversion

Author(s): James R. Oakleaf,Christina M. Kennedy,Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Paul C. West, James S. Ger­ber, Larissa Jarvis and Joseph Kiesecker

Title: A World at Risk: Aggre­gat­ing Devel­op­ment Trends to Fore­cast Global Habi­tat Conversion

Year: 2015

In: PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.013833. Pub­lished online: 7 Octo­ber 2015

Pages: 25 pages.

Pub­li­ca­tion type: open access jour­nal article

Lan­guage: English

Source: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138334

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