BBOP webinar today, Wednesday, October 12, 2016: France’s new biodiversity law and implications for no net loss of biodiveristy

This is a last minute reminder to reg­is­ter for another inter­est­ing BBOP webi­nar, tak­ing place today, Octo­ber 12. Ophélie Darses, Deputy Bureau Chief of Global Pub­lic Goods from the French Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, Energy and Sea, and Fabien Quétier from the … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: French Biodiversity Law adopted — what’s new?

What’s it about in short:  The French national Assem­bly has adopted the new bio­di­ver­sity law, which now also includes the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy in order to reach the goal of NO NET LOSS (or prefer­ably NET GAIN) of bio­di­ver­sity: … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Sequence ERC dans “Examens environnementaux de l’OCDE : France 2016″

What’s it about in short:  Le 11 juil­let, l’OCDE a présenté à la France ses con­clu­sions et recom­man­da­tions quant à la per­for­mance de notre pays en matière d’environnement. Tous les dix ans, l’OCDE réalise en effet un « exa­men » de la per­for­mance … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Achieving Conservation and Development: 10 Principles for Applying the Mitigation Hierarchy

What’s it about in short: The Con­ser­vancy has pub­lished 10 Prin­ci­ples for Apply­ing the Mit­i­ga­tion Hier­ar­chy. When was it released: Jan­u­ary 13, 2016 By whom: Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente More info: http://www.mercadosdemedioambiente.com/actualidad/10-principios-para-aplicar-la-jerarquia-de-mitigacion/ (in Span­ish, see the pdf in Eng­lish here) … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Presidential Memorandum: Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment

What’s it about in short: On Novem­ber 3 Pres­i­dent Obama issued a mem­o­ran­dum encour­ag­ing a stan­dard set of prac­tices across sev­eral fed­eral depart­ments and agen­cies for the appli­ca­tion of the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy, includ­ing off­set­ting. When was it released: Novem­ber 3, 2015 … Con­tinue read­ing

PhD IN PROGRESS: Development of a methodology to calculate ecological equivalence in the mitigation hierarchy context in France : taking into account ecological, spatial and temporal aspects

This is a guest post by Lucie Bezombes, doc­toral stu­dent at EDF and IRSTEA (France). This com­ment is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is acknowl­edged as a fruit­ful con­tri­bu­tion to the dis­cus­sion on bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing

NEW ARTICLE: The transition from No Net Loss to a Net Gain of biodiversity is far from trivial

Author(s): J.W. Bull and S. Brown­lie Title: The tran­si­tion from No Net Loss to a Net Gain of bio­di­ver­sity is far from triv­ial Year: 2015 In: Oryx, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605315000861. Pub­lished online: 10 Novem­ber 2015 Pages: 7 pages. Pub­li­ca­tion type: jour­nal arti­cle … Con­tinue read­ing

A cross-sector guide for implementing the Mitigation Hierarchy

This new doc­u­ment is mak­ing the rounds and I absolutely want to share CSBI’s Mit­i­ga­tion Hier­ar­chy guide with you. The Cross-Sector Guide for Imple­ment­ing the Mit­i­ga­tion Hier­ar­chy pro­vides prac­ti­cal guid­ance, inno­v­a­tive approaches and exam­ples to sup­port oper­a­tional­iz­ing the mit­i­ga­tion hier­ar­chy effec­tively. … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Potential for Biodiversity Offsets as a Biodiversity Finance Mechanism in India

What’s it about in short: Poten­tial for Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets as a Bio­di­ver­sity Finance Mech­a­nism in India — a pre­sen­ta­tion made at the CBD work­shop on ‘the role of pri­vate sec­tor in achiev­ing national bio­di­ver­sity finance tar­gets’ at CII’s 10th National Sus­tain­abil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — The Nature Conservancy’s Development by Design global program

What’s it about in short: launch of the web plat­form of The Nature Conservancy’s Devel­op­ment by Design global pro­gram When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 15, 2015 By whom: Bruce McKen­ney and Joe Kiesecker, the Nature Con­ser­vancy More info: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/urgentissues/smart-development/index.htm … Con­tinue read­ing