What’s it about in short: lively LinkedIn discussion (~30 comments) on the impact and effectiveness of biodiversity offsets When was it released: August, 2015 By whom: Gordon Gerbitz More info: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4076378–6031468076283752449 … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: Peter Kareiva and Clive Spash debate on new paths for conservation at ICCB conference 2015 in Montpellier When was it released: August 2, 2015 By whom: Jocelyne Sze More info: https://storify.com/jocelynesze/iccb-2015-kareiva-vs-spash … Continue reading
What’s it about in short: letter by organizations and individuals to EU Commission on biodiversity offsetting concerns When was it released: October 20, 2014 By whom: FERN More info: http://www.fern.org/publications/ngo-statements/open-letter-commissioner-poto%C4%8Dnik-about-biodiversity-offsetting and http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/21/stop-biodiversity-offsets-thousands-sign-letter-to-the-european-commission/ … Continue reading
The campaigning NGO FERN, based in the UK and in Brussels, is one of the active opponents of biodiversity offsets. Recently they have published the fourth part of a series on critical briefing notes on biodiversity offsets. This briefing notes … Continue reading
This is a guest post by James Brown, PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast. This comment has previously been published on QuBio blog of the School of Biological Sciences. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and … Continue reading
Recently I found a post on Hot Air (A Client Earth blog) which asks: Does biodiversity offsetting make nature a commodity? In her article Agata Szafraniuk comments on the EU No Net Loss Initiative and gives some conclusions from 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
Friends of the Earth represent some of the strongest critics to Biodiversity Offsets both as a concept and in practice. They have prepared a short briefing note entitled “Case studies of biodiversity offsetting: voices from the ground” including a critical … Continue reading
Anne-Charlotte Vaissière and Harol Levrel have published a new paper entitled “Biodiversity offset markets: What are they really? An empirical approach to wetland mitigation banking” in Ecological Economics (Volume 110, February 2015, Pages 81–88). Read more on the Journal website … 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