NEW BOOK: Protecting the Environment, Privately — including mining offsets in NSW

Editor(s): Jef­frey Ben­nett Title: Pro­tect­ing the Envi­ron­ment, Pri­vately Year: 2015 Pages: 380 pages Pub­li­ca­tion type: book Lan­guage: Eng­lish Source: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789814675444_0015 Chap­ter 15 of this book is ded­i­cated to bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in min­ing in Aus­tralia: Robert Gille­spie (2015) Min­ing Off­sets in NSW. Pro­tect­ing the Envi­ron­ment, … Con­tinue read­ing

New report on payments for ecosystem services (in French) — Du Sud au Nord: regards croisés sur les Paiements pour Services Environnementaux

CDC Biodiversité’s Mis­sion Economie de la Bio­di­ver­sité has pub­lished a report on pay­ments for ecosys­tem ser­vices, enti­tled “Du Sud au Nord: regards croisés sur les Paiements pour Ser­vices Envi­ron­nemen­taux”. The report (in French) was issued in Novem­ber 2014 in the … Con­tinue read­ing

Global Biodiversity Finance. The Case for International Payments for Ecosystem Services — new book by Bishop and Hill

Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia and Chloe Hill, Green Econ­omy Tech­ni­cal Advi­sor for WWF Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cam­bo­dia are the edi­tors of a new book on pay­ments for ecosys­tem ser­vices that has been pub­lished in asso­ci­a­tion with IUCN and UNEP, end … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, November 24–30, 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

Organisation de sessions de formations dans le cadre du projet EC-SMD (request to organize workshops on payments for ecosystem services and environmental certification for a project in Morocco)

This is a guest post on behalf of Moha Had­douch, PES Project national coor­di­na­tor at UNDP Morocco. A project on the pro­tec­tion agro­bio­di­ver­sity in Morocco is seek­ing help with the orga­ni­za­tion of three work­shops in the scope of pay­ments for … Con­tinue read­ing