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
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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
Pictures say more than words — and some of these are really mean. Does biodiverity offsetting work this way? Critics would say: yes, biodiversity offsets are bad. Anyway, the drawings point to some of the core problems of biodiversity offsets … 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
Last Friday I have been to a political session organized by the German Green party (Die Grünen) of the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin. Steffi Lemke, parliamentary executive and speaker for nature conservation policies for the Green party, invited experts … Continue reading
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
“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
“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
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