Thanks to Dave Poulton for sharing his latest paper entitled “Biodiversity and Conservation Offsets: A Guide for Albertans”. The paper was prepared at the Canadian Institute of Resources Law. You can access the full paper online and see the introduction copied below. … Continue reading
Thanks to Genevieve Hayes and Samir Whitaker from BirdLife for sharing their latest report on the mitigation hierarchy. Over a period of 9 months the team (BirdLife International, United Nations Environmental Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Royal Society … Continue reading
Professor Dieter Helm, Chairman of the Natural Capital Committee, has released ‘Natural Capital valuing our planet’, a book published by Yale University Press and following closely the recommendations of the Natural Capital Committee in its recent report to the … Continue reading
On 27 January 2015, England’s Natural Capital Committee (NCC) published its third State of Natural Capital Report. The NCC’s mandate is to “advise the Government on how to ensure England’s ‘natural wealth’ is managed efficiently and sustainably, thereby unlocking opportunities … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Naazia Ebrahim of the OECD Environment Directorate. This comment has previously been published on OECD Insights. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and as such is acknowledged as a fruitful … Continue reading
As I have already announced in my latest post, the latest issue of Mission Économie de la Biodiversité’s “BIODIV’2050″ (No. 6 — April 2015) is out. Beside the previously mentioned article entitled “Thinking out the appropriate frameworks: biodiversity offsets and safeguards” another … Continue reading
The latest issue of Mission Économie de la Biodiversité’s “BIODIV’2050″ (No. 6 — April 2015) is out. Among others, this includes an article on biodiversity offsets entitled “Thinking out the appropriate frameworks: biodiversity offsets and safeguards”. The article highlights the importance … Continue reading
Carsten Mann and Arno Simons have published a new paper entitled “Local emergence and international developments of conservation trading systems: innovation dynamics and related problems” in Environmental Conservation (2014). You can read the full article on the Journal website (pay-walled). For more … Continue reading
Jerneja Penca has published a new paper entitled “Biodiversity Offsetting in Transnational Governance” in Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 93–102, April 2015. You can read the full article on the Journal website … Continue reading
Anders Enetjärn and his team at Swedish environmental consultancy Ennetjärn Natur together with Kairos Futur have written an extensive report entitled “Habitat banking — Futures for market-based solutions for biodiversity to year 2030″. Unfortunately (for most of us) the report … Continue reading