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
What’s it about in short: CIRIA, the UK’s construction industry research and information association joins forces with Balfour Beatty to target Biodiversity Net Gain following ‘best practice principles’ When was it released: September, 2016 By whom: CIRIA UK, Julia Baker More info: http://www.ciria.org/News/blog/Biodiversity_Net_Gain_is_the_next_big_thing.aspx … Continue reading
In this webinar, brought to you by IEMA, CIRIA and CIEEM, Julia Baker will outline and review the best practice principles for UK industry to achieve biodiversity net gain outcomes from development. It will focus on recent principles, drafted and … Continue reading
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
Many thanks to all, who have responded to the current poll so far (77)! As with the last poll, I would like to close it once 100 participants have been reached. So, please, if you have not yet taken the … Continue reading
On 27 January 2015, England’s Natural Capital Committee (NCC) published its third State of Natural Capital Report. The NCC’s mandate is to “advise the Government on how to ensure England’s ‘natural wealth’ is managed efficiently and sustainably, thereby unlocking opportunities … Continue reading
The Canadian NGO Ontario Nature has recently released a report entitled “Insights into Biodiversity Offsetting in Ontario”. The report is the outcome of a project on biodiversity offsetting (started in July 2013), which was supported by the Metcalf Foundation. It … Continue reading
IUCN has presented the latest report by its Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group at the IUCN World Parks Congress (12 - 19 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia). Lead authors Kerry ten Kate and John Pilgrim together with various contributing authors have written more … Continue reading
Definition of Biodiversity Offsets Biodiversity Offsets are defined as “measurable conservation outcomes resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development after appropriate prevention and mitigation measures have been taken”. [BBOP 2009]