SHORT INFO: Projet de loi pour la reconquête de la biodiversité, de la nature et des paysages

What’s it about in short: pro­jet de loi — pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the French draft bio­di­ver­sity law ends today (includes pro­vi­sions on com­pen­sa­tion mea­sures) When was it released: Decem­ber 18, 2015 By whom:Joël Labbé More info: https://www.parlement-et-citoyens.fr/project/projet-de-loi-pour-la-reconquete-de-la-biodiversite-de-la-nature-et-des-paysages/presentation/presentation-et-suivi-6 Link to the con­sul­ta­tion: https://www.parlement-et-citoyens.fr/projects/projet-de-loi-pour-la-reconquete-de-la-biodiversite-de-la-nature-et-des-paysages/consultation/consultation-26 … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Consultation on Draft Natural Capital Protocol launched

What’s it about in short: The draft Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Pro­to­col and Sec­tor Guides as they are launched for con­sul­ta­tion until Feb­ru­ary 26, 2016. When was it released: Novem­ber 23, 2015 By whom: Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Coali­tion More info: http://www.naturalcapitalcoalition.org/news/article/consultation-on-draft-natural-capital-protocol-launched.html … Con­tinue read­ing

IUCN public consultation: IUCN seeks input on draft Biodiversity Offsets Policy

Some time ago IUCN launched its Draft Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pol­icy for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion and com­ments. Shar­ing this with you is on my to-do-list for quite a while and time is run­ning. Before it’s too late (appar­ently the con­sul­ta­tion web­site still … Con­tinue read­ing

NATUE ALERT — last three days of the public consultation as part of the ‘fitness check’ for EU nature legislation (Birds Directive, Habitats Directive)

For the past three months the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion has held a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion as part of the ‘fit­ness check’ for EU nature leg­is­la­tion (Birds Direc­tive, Habi­tats Direc­tive — BHD). the BHD and related Natura 2000 net­work are a unique tool … Con­tinue read­ing

World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards Review update

Phase 2 of the World Bank envi­ron­men­tal and social safe­guards review closed on 1 March, 2015. More than 2,500 pages of feed­back were received from the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the first draft frame­work of the Bank’s social safe­guard poli­cies. Under … Con­tinue read­ing

Results of the No Net Loss Public Consultation now available online!

As many have impa­tiently waited for it, I am happy to announce that the results of the Euro­pean Commission’s pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on its planned No Net Loss Ini­tia­tive are pub­lished online on the web­site of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. The inter­net … Con­tinue read­ing

French Assemblée Nationale has decided upon a resolution on the (planned) EU No Net Loss Initiative

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

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 13–19, 2014

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

Have your say – even if it’s a MAYBE: Consultation on the EU No Net Loss Initiative closes today!

With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing

Why would you say YES to the EU No Net Loss Initiative?

With the adop­tion of its 2020 Bio­di­ver­sity Strat­egy the EU has made a com­mit­ment to halt “the loss of bio­di­ver­sity and the degra­da­tion of ecosys­tem ser­vices in the EU by 2020, and restor­ing them in so far as fea­si­ble”. To … Con­tinue read­ing