SHORT INFO — NSW Election 2015: Baird biodiversity offsets plan endangered under Labour

What’s it about in short: arti­cle on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and pol­icy change (?) in New South Wales, Aus­tralia When was it released: March 6, 2015 By whom: Peter Han­nam, The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald More info: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-election-2015-baird-biodiversity-offsets-plan-endangered-under-labor-20150306-13xcp1.html … Con­tinue read­ing

Conference “Biodiversity Offsetting for Mining, Infrastructure and Urban Development”, 22–23 July, Sydney (Australia)

From tomor­row on a two-day con­fer­ence will exam­ine the future of bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting in Aus­tralia. The con­fer­ence enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting for Min­ing, Infra­struc­ture and Urban Devel­op­ment” will focus  on the com­plex and chal­leng­ing task of bal­anc­ing bio­di­ver­sity con­ser­va­tion out­comes with … Con­tinue read­ing

A National Biodiversity Offset Scheme: A Road Map for Liberia’s Mining Sector — new World Bank report

Sally John­son has writ­ten a report enti­tled “A National Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Scheme: A Road Map for Liberia’s Min­ing Sec­tor”. This report was also pre­sented in a BBOP webi­nar last fri­day. You can find the full report here: A National Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set … Con­tinue read­ing

The legal and institutional dimensions of biodiversity offsetting — a workshop report by Megan Evans

This is a guest post by Megan Evans, a PhD researcher based at the  Fen­ner School of Envi­ron­ment and Soci­ety, at the Aus­tralian National Uni­ver­sity in Can­berra, Aus­tralia. This com­ment has pre­vi­ously been pub­lished on Megan’s Blog. It is the expres­sion of the … Con­tinue read­ing