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

SHORT INFO: Mid-term review of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

What’s it about in short: The mid-term review of the EU Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy to 2020 describes progress made in imple­ment­ing the actions and achiev­ing the tar­gets set out in the strat­egy adopted in 2011. The report demon­strates that action on the … Con­tinue read­ing

Offsetting biodiversity losses — a guest post by Marie Brown

This is a guest post on behalf of Marie Brown, Senior Pol­icy Ana­lyst for Envi­ron­men­tal Defense Soci­ety (EDS), spe­cial­iz­ing in bio­di­ver­sity pol­icy. The text by Veronika Meduna (from Radio New Zealand National) was based on a radio inter­view with Marie … Con­tinue read­ing

NEW BOOK: Vanishing Nature: facing New Zealand’s biodiversity crisis

Author(s): Marie A Brown, R T Theo Stephens, Raewyn Peart and Bevis Fed­der Title: Van­ish­ing Nature: fac­ing New Zealand’s bio­di­ver­sity cri­sis Year: 2015 In: pub­lished by Envi­ron­men­tal Defence Soci­ety, New Zealand Pages: ~200 pages Pub­li­ca­tion type: book Lan­guage: Eng­lish Source: http://www.eds.org.nz/our-work/publications/books/vanishing-nature-facing-new-zealands-biodiversity/ Addi­tional infor­ma­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — infographic on business opportunities from natural capital challenges

What’s it about in short:  The ‘Busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties from nat­ural cap­i­tal chal­lenges’ info­graphic depicts the alarm­ing degra­da­tion rates of the quan­tity and qual­ity of water, bio­di­ver­sity and soil. When was it released: Feb­ru­ary 17, 2015 By whom: Cam­bridge Insti­tute for Sus­tain­abil­ity Lead­er­ship More info: … Con­tinue read­ing

(First) Biodiversity Offsets NewsMONTH, January 2015

Some time ago, I have announced that the news cat­e­gory that I have cre­ated for the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog, enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek”, would be replaced by another tool. Not so much dif­fer­ent (same style and struc­ture), this new tool … Con­tinue read­ing

Integrating social gains with ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity — a comment by Victoria Griffiths

This is a guest post by Vic­to­ria Grif­fiths, PhD Stu­dent at Impe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don (UK). This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is acknowl­edged as a fruit­ful con­tri­bu­tion to the dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 20–26, 2014

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

Can you reduce environmental impacts of business within a budget? — play the game

In our very inside, there is a child in each of us which makes that we hardly ever loose our joy of play­ing. That’s prob­a­bly why things like the fol­low­ing game usu­ally attract our atten­tion far more than sim­ple words … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 6–12, 2014

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