Author(s): Michael Curran, Stefanie Hellweg, and Jan Beck Title: The jury is still out on biodiversity offsets: reply to Quétier et al. Year: 2015 In: Ecological Applications 25:1741–1746 Pages: 1741–1746 Publication type: Letter to the editor Language: English Source: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/14–2363.1 … Continue reading
Author(s): Fabien Quétier, Astrid J. A. Van Teeffelen, John D. Pilgrim, Amrei von Hase, and Kerry ten Kate Title: Biodiversity offsets are one solution to widespread poorly compensated biodiversity loss: a response to Curran et al. Year: 2015 In: Ecological Applications 25:1739–1741 … Continue reading
Author(s): Martine Maron, Ascelin Gordon, Brendan G. Mackey, Hugh P. Possingham & James E. M. Watson Title: Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets Year: 2015 In: Nature523, 401–403(23 July 2015) Pages: 401–403 Publication type: open access journal article (comment) Language: English Source: http://www.nature.com/news/conservation-stop-misuse-of-biodiversity-offsets-1.18010 … Continue reading
Author(s): Martine Maron and James Watson Title: Offsetting Biodiversity: Greening or Greenwashing? Year: 2015 In: National Geographic, July 22, 2015 Pages: - Publication type: open access article Language: English Source: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/22/offsetting-biodiversity-greening-or-greenwashing/ … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: letter by organizations and individuals to EU Commission on biodiversity offsetting concerns When was it released: October 20, 2014 By whom: FERN More info: http://www.fern.org/publications/ngo-statements/open-letter-commissioner-poto%C4%8Dnik-about-biodiversity-offsetting and http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/21/stop-biodiversity-offsets-thousands-sign-letter-to-the-european-commission/ … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: unanswered questions on the implementation of biodiversity offsets (in general and in the UK) When was it released: April 20, 2015 By whom: British Ecological Society More info: http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2015/04/20/biodiversity-offsetting-uncertainty-and-unanswered-questions/ … Continue reading
The campaigning NGO FERN, based in the UK and in Brussels, is one of the active opponents of biodiversity offsets. Recently they have published the fourth part of a series on critical briefing notes on biodiversity offsets. This briefing notes … Continue reading
The British Ecological Society (BES) in a recent post looks at uncertainty and unanswered questions with regard to biodiversity offsets. The author of the article concludes that since the UK government’s consultation closed at the end of 2013, “the Government … Continue reading
Recently I found a post on Hot Air (A Client Earth blog) which asks: Does biodiversity offsetting make nature a commodity? In her article Agata Szafraniuk comments on the EU No Net Loss Initiative and gives some conclusions from the … 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. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and as such is … Continue reading