This is a guest post by The Biodiversity Consultancy, a UK-based consultancy specialized in biodiversity offsets. This 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
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
I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webinar being held in an hour’s time from now. This week the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme has announced its next BBOP webinar as This time the topic is: … Continue reading
IUCN has presented the latest report by its Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group at the IUCN World Parks Congress (12 - 19 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia). Lead authors Kerry ten Kate and John Pilgrim together with various contributing authors have written more … Continue reading
Ana Villarroya, Ana Christina Barros and Joe Kiesecker have published a new paper on “Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America” in PLOS ONE. You can access the full paper here (open access) and find the abstract copied … Continue reading
Rebecca Kormos, Cyril F. Kormos, Tatyana Humle, Annette Lanjouw, Helga Rainer, Ray Victurine, A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands, Mamadou S. Diallo and Elizabeth A. Williamson have published a new paper on “Great Apes and Biodiversity Offset Projects in Africa: The Case for National Offset Strategies” in Methods … 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
Today’s BBOP webinar on biodiversity offsets in the Ambatovy mining project in in Madagascar was postponed on short notice due to technical problems! This coincidence is maybe not too bad (a new date and time have already been scheduled) as … Continue reading
Recently, the Queensland Parliament voted to pass the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 (EPOLA Bill) as part of the Queensland Government’s greentape reduction reforms. EPOLA makes changes to the Environmental Offsets Act 2014 (EO Act). Read below extracts … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Céline Jacob, PhD Student on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Offsets at CREOCEAN — Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier (France). This comment is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and … Continue reading