The European Commission has commissioned a study on specific design elements of biodiversity offsets: Biodiversity metrics and mechanisms for securing long term conservation benefits. The report and has been prepared by Matt Rayment, Rupert Haines, David McNeil, Mavourneen Conway, Graham … Continue reading
Michael Curran, Stefanie Hellweg and Jan Beck haves published a paper entitled “Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy? in Ecological Applications Volume 24, Issue 4 (June 2014) pp. 617–31. You can access the full paper here (pay-walled) and … Continue reading
A recent policy brief (October 2014) has been prepared by Sustainable Prosperity on biodiversity offsets in the Canadian context. See the pdf of the policy brief here and the key messages below. Agenda for Biodiversity Offsets in Canada_Policy brief_Oct 2014 … Continue reading
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
Last Friday I have been to a political session organized by the German Green party (Die Grünen) of the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin. Steffi Lemke, parliamentary executive and speaker for nature conservation policies for the Green party, invited experts … Continue reading
It has been quite a while since the last newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme. So, I was both happy and surprised when the latest newsletter came in last week. It is full of information from the biodiversity … Continue reading
I don’t know why I usually find myself reading the likes of those lists and instructions “10 things to know…”, “3 reasons for…” or “100 places to visit…”, even though I have seen them so many times before. The reason … Continue reading
Update September 2014 There are a whole follow up section (including several videos) as well as an extensive summary report available. For more information see my post No Net Loss Conference Conclusions and Summary are out. My observations on the No Net … Continue reading