Love or Leave? The controversy about Biodiversity Offsets

No to Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting? As bio­di­ver­sity off­sets become more vis­i­ble in the pub­lic they are sub­ject to a grow­ing con­tro­versy. Crit­ics of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets have a grow­ing lobby, espe­cially in the UK, where the gov­ern­ment seems to rush, want­ing to … Con­tinue read­ing

Gina vs. the reef? A plea for informed debate on biodiversity offsets — new article by Megan Evans

Megan Evans, who writes her PhD at the Aus­tralian National Uni­ver­sity, has pub­lished a nice arti­cle on her blog, try­ing to out­bal­ance a rather poorly inves­ti­gated arti­cle pub­lished in the Guardian on an Aus­tralian coal ter­mi­nal. As she says: I never thought … Con­tinue read­ing

“Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking” — report and findings from a Workshop held by the “Innovation in Governance Research Group”

“Chal­leng­ing futures of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and bank­ing” was the name of a work­shop that was held on 19 April 2013 in Berlin. The work­shop was orga­nized by the ‘Inno­va­tion in Gov­er­nance Research Group’ Berlin  as part of its research on … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP holds first No Net Loss Conference on Biodiversity Offsets, June, 3 — 4, 2014, London

Update Sep­tem­ber 2014 There are a whole fol­low up sec­tion (includ­ing sev­eral videos) as well as an exten­sive sum­mary report avail­able. For more infor­ma­tion see my post No Net Loss Con­fer­ence Con­clu­sions and Sum­mary are out. My obser­va­tions on the No Net … Con­tinue read­ing