Recently, I got some interesting news from France: the French Assemblée Nationale has decided upon a resolution on the (planned) EU No Net Loss Initiative. For more information see the article “L’assemblée Nationale publie le rapport sur l’initiative envisagée par … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Carlos Ferreira, Research Assistant in the Center for Business in Society at Coventry University. He can be reached at carlos.ferreira@coventry.ac.uk. This comment has previously been published on Ecosystem Marketplace. It is the expression of the … Continue reading
I am wishing you all a happy new year both in your private and professional life! I am very much looking forward to a promising and exciting new year. Together, let’s help to better understand and bring forward the concept … Continue reading
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
The Canadian NGO Ontario Nature has recently released a report entitled “Insights into Biodiversity Offsetting in Ontario”. The report is the outcome of a project on biodiversity offsetting (started in July 2013), which was supported by the Metcalf Foundation. It … Continue reading
This month, a newly developed free, open-source, stand-alone software tool to calculate environmental losses and gains was released. Being part of the work of the Natural Capital Project, OPAL (Offset Portfolio Analyzer and Locator) enables users to estimate the impacts … Continue reading
The question whether accountants “can save the planet” as the subtitle of the new book by Jane Gleeson-White (“Six Capitals. The revolution capitalism has to have — or can accountants save the planet?”) suggests, points to the core of the … Continue reading
Sarah Benabou has published a new paper on “Making Up for Lost Nature? A Critical Review of the International Development of Voluntary Biodiversity Offsets” in Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 5, Number 1, 2014, pp. 103–123(21). You can access the … Continue reading
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
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