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Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 8–14, 2014

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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 →

15 ways how you can contribute to the Biodiversity Offsets Blog

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I don’t know why I usu­ally find myself read­ing the likes of those lists and instruc­tions “10 things to know…”, “3 rea­sons for…” or “100 places to visit…”, even though I have seen them so many times before. The rea­son … Con­tinue read­ing →

PhD study: Biodiversity Offsets for moving conservation targets

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Another PhD on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets was pub­lished this year. Joe Bull has pre­pared his work at Impe­r­ial Col­lege Lon­don, Depart­ment of Life Sci­ences.  His work focuses on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets for mov­ing con­ser­va­tion tar­gets. He exam­ines the case of the Saiga Ante­lope in the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Will the Great Barrier Reef die off: How harmful are coastal development activities and can Marine Biodiversity Offsets be effective?

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In 2017 Amer­i­can ecol­o­gists from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) develop the ground­break­ing tech­nol­ogy “Gen­Calc”. The new cal­cu­la­tion method offers the oppor­tu­nity to ini­ti­ate transna­tional bio­di­ver­sity com­pen­sa­tion and credit trad­ing – for the first time with­out neglect­ing the com­plex­ity … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biodiversity Offsetting Workshop in Hatton (UK) on 22nd September 2014

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I have recently found the announce­ment of a Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Work­shop in Hat­ton, War­wick­shire (UK) on 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2014 and want to share this infor­ma­tion with you. The work­shop is hosted by CIEEM (Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment). … Con­tinue read­ing →

Take three for Australia’s biodiversity offset policies: Queensland’s new Environmental Offsets regime

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After I have cov­ered the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in New South Wales and the bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy in the Aus­tralian Cap­i­tal Ter­ri­tory in pre­vi­ous posts I would like to point to the New Envi­ron­men­tal Off­sets Regime for Queens­land. On 1 July … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Say no to more development in the ACT” — or the new biodiversity offset policy will fail

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“This approach – bio­di­ver­sity off­sets – is becom­ing pop­u­lar with gov­ern­ments around the world because it appears to pro­vide a win-win: ongo­ing devel­op­ment with­out fur­ther loss of declin­ing bio­di­ver­sity.” Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Pol­icy in the ACT A bio­di­ver­sity off­set pol­icy is under­way … Con­tinue read­ing →

Good news? Bad news? New biodiversity offset fund released in New South Wales, Australia

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New NSW bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund hits the news Yes­ter­day the news (at least in Aus­tralia) in the off­set­ting world were full of the announce­ment of the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in the state of New South Wales, Aus­tralia. The pol­icy was … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Biodiversity Offsets in Australia — new report finds implementation at state level is poor

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“no state leg­is­la­tion fully meets Com­mon­wealth stan­dards for bio­di­ver­sity off­sets” The report Assess­ment of the ade­quacy of threat­ened species & plan­ning laws has been released by the Places You Love Alliance, a coali­tion of 42 Aus­tralian NGOs. Read more at Blue and Green … Con­tinue read­ing →

New PhD study: “Biodiversity offset markets: current challenges and prospective developments”

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A Report on Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting Nice to see another PhD in the bio­di­ver­sity off­sets field – with more analy­ses such as this we will be able to have a bet­ter informed dis­cus­sion! Many thanks Car­los! As the PhD is still “fresh” … Con­tinue read­ing →