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
Ascelin Gordon, Joe Bull, Chris Wilcox and Martine Maron have published a new paper entitled “Perverse incentives risk undermining biodiversity offset policies” in Journal of Applied Ecology (February 2015). Read more on the Journal website (pay-walled). For more information see also a … Continue reading
The Biodiversity Offsets Blog is making the rounds — thanks to the team at Cow Burps for sharing a link and some information on the Biodiversity Offsets Blog today in a blog post. Read more here. Read more about Cow … Continue reading
Joe Bull has published a new paper entitled “Comparing biodiversity offset methodologies. Divergence in securing ‘no net loss’” in Decision Point (No 85, February 2015). You can read the full article on the Journal website (open access). For more information … Continue reading
David A. Norton and Bruce Warburton have published a new paper entitled “The potential for biodiversity offsetting to fund effective invasive species control” in Conservation Biology (Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 5–11, February 2015). Read more on the Journal website … Continue reading
KATHERINE L. MILLER, JAMES A. TREZISE, STEFAN KRAUS, KIMBERLEY DRIPPS, MEGAN C. EVANS, PHILIP GIBBONS, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM and MARTINE MARON have published a new paper entitled “The development of the Australian environmental offsets policy: from theory to practice” in Environmental Conservation (2015). Read more on the Journal … Continue reading
Friends of the Earth represent some of the strongest critics to Biodiversity Offsets both as a concept and in practice. They have prepared a short briefing note entitled “Case studies of biodiversity offsetting: voices from the ground” including a critical … Continue reading
Jointly owned with Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd, BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is Australia’s largest coal miner and exporter, and the world’s largest supplier to the sea borne coking coal market. BMA’s mines are located in the coal rich Bowen … Continue reading
Amrei von Hase, Andrew Cooke, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Rivolala Andriamparany, Vanessa Mass, Robin Mitchell and Kerry ten Kate Have published a new report on the BBOP Ambatovy mining case study in Madagascar entitled “Working Towards No Net Loss and Beyond. Ambatovy, … Continue reading
Anne-Charlotte Vaissière and Harol Levrel have published a new paper entitled “Biodiversity offset markets: What are they really? An empirical approach to wetland mitigation banking” in Ecological Economics (Volume 110, February 2015, Pages 81–88). Read more on the Journal website … Continue reading