(First) Biodiversity Offsets NewsMONTH, January 2015

Some time ago, I have announced that the news cat­e­gory that I have cre­ated for the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog, enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Newsweek”, would be replaced by another tool. Not so much dif­fer­ent (same style and struc­ture), this new tool … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, October 13–19, 2014

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

Biodiversity Offsets need a strong regulatory system! Or voluntary engagement?

Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets under reg­u­la­tory sys­tems A decade ago off­sets only existed under sev­eral reg­u­la­tory sys­tems e.g. Envi­ron­men­tal Impact Assess­ment, US Wet­land Mit­i­ga­tion, Ger­man Impact Mit­i­ga­tion Reg­u­la­tion and other (see table below for some selected more). The busi­ness case and vol­un­tary … Con­tinue read­ing

Consultation of the EU on the No Net Loss Initiative (including biodiversity offsets) — Have your say today!

UPDATE 20 Octo­ber 2014: The con­sul­ta­tion is now closed! I will keep you informed on the results and how the process is ongo­ing. The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion has pub­lished an on-line con­sul­ta­tion on a future (2015) EU ini­tia­tive to halt bio­di­ver­sity … Con­tinue read­ing