NEW ARTICLE: Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets

Author(s): Mar­tine Maron, Ascelin Gor­don, Bren­dan G. Mackey, Hugh P. Poss­ing­ham & James E. M. Wat­son Title: Con­ser­va­tion: Stop mis­use of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets Year: 2015 In: Nature523, 401–403(23 July 2015) Pages: 401–403 Pub­li­ca­tion type: open access jour­nal arti­cle (com­ment) Lan­guage: Eng­lish Source: http://www.nature.com/news/conservation-stop-misuse-of-biodiversity-offsets-1.18010 … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Potential for Biodiversity Offsets as a Biodiversity Finance Mechanism in India

What’s it about in short: Poten­tial for Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets as a Bio­di­ver­sity Finance Mech­a­nism in India — a pre­sen­ta­tion made at the CBD work­shop on ‘the role of pri­vate sec­tor in achiev­ing national bio­di­ver­sity finance tar­gets’ at CII’s 10th National Sus­tain­abil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Biodiversity offsetting: uncertainty and unanswered questions

What’s it about in short: unan­swered ques­tions on the imple­men­ta­tion of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets (in gen­eral and in the UK) When was it released: April 20, 2015 By whom: British Eco­log­i­cal Soci­ety More info: http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2015/04/20/biodiversity-offsetting-uncertainty-and-unanswered-questions/ … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity offsetting: uncertainty and unanswered questions — a post by the British Ecological Socierty

The British Eco­log­i­cal Soci­ety (BES) in a recent post looks at uncer­tainty and unan­swered ques­tions with regard to bio­di­ver­sity off­sets. The author of the arti­cle con­cludes that since the UK government’s con­sul­ta­tion closed at the end of 2013, “the Gov­ern­ment … Con­tinue read­ing