Held once every 10 years, the 2014 World Parks Congress in November 2014 attracted 6,000 participants from 170 countries, and secured more than 70 new major conservation commitments, including Gabon’s promise to protect 23% of its coastline, and the Elion … Continue reading
Professor Dieter Helm, Chairman of the Natural Capital Committee, has released ‘Natural Capital valuing our planet’, a book published by Yale University Press and following closely the recommendations of the Natural Capital Committee in its recent report to the … Continue reading
Ontario Nature is holding a Biodiversity Offsetting Law and Policy workshop, presenting a new report that compares law and policy internationally across six jurisdictions, analyzing strengths, weaknesses and gaps, and providing recommendations. Date: Monday, June 8, 2015 Time: 9:30 am Location: Black … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Naazia Ebrahim of the OECD Environment Directorate. This comment has previously been published on OECD Insights. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and as such is acknowledged as a fruitful … Continue reading
The OECD has held a workshop on biodiversity offsets on 6–7 November 2013 at the OECD Headquarters. The workshop examined the technical and analytical issues related to their effective design and implementation with an aim to derive insights on and … Continue reading
Sally Johnson has written a report entitled “A National Biodiversity Offset Scheme: A Road Map for Liberia’s Mining Sector”. This report was also presented in a BBOP webinar last friday. You can find the full report here: A National Biodiversity Offset … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Megan Evans, a PhD researcher based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. This comment has previously been published on Megan’s Blog. It is the expression of the … Continue reading
Ascelin Gordon, Joe Bull, Chris Wilcox and Martine Maron have published a new paper entitled “Perverse incentives risk undermining biodiversity offset policies” in Journal of Applied Ecology (February 2015). Read more on the Journal website (pay-walled). For more information see also a … Continue reading
KATHERINE L. MILLER, JAMES A. TREZISE, STEFAN KRAUS, KIMBERLEY DRIPPS, MEGAN C. EVANS, PHILIP GIBBONS, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM and MARTINE MARON have published a new paper entitled “The development of the Australian environmental offsets policy: from theory to practice” in Environmental Conservation (2015). Read more on the Journal … Continue reading
Martin Fallding has published a paper entitled “Biodiversity offsets: Practice and promise” in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (Volume 31 Part 1, 2014). He examines offsets form a Australian perspective, looking at policy and practice especially in the state of New … Continue reading