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Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 15–21, 2014

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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 →

No Net Loss Initiative – risk or chance for nature? Political session of the German green party left the issue biased

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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 →

Seminar on Biodiversity Offsetting in Paris on September 30, 2014: “Biodiversity Offsetting and sustainable development: a right to destroy, a fool’s bargain or a tool for reconciliation?”

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A Ses­sion of the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and Envi­ron­men­tal Eco­nom­ics Sem­i­nar is held in  Paris on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 30, 2014. It is enti­tled “Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment: a right to destroy, a fool’s bar­gain or a tool for reconciliation?”

15 ways how you can contribute to the Biodiversity Offsets Blog

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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 →

Good news? Bad news? New biodiversity offset fund released in New South Wales, Australia

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New NSW bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund hits the news Yes­ter­day the news (at least in Aus­tralia) in the off­set­ting world were full of the announce­ment of the new bio­di­ver­sity off­set fund in the state of New South Wales, Aus­tralia. The pol­icy was … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking” — report and findings from a Workshop held by the “Innovation in Governance Research Group”

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“Chal­leng­ing futures of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and bank­ing” was the name of a work­shop that was held on 19 April 2013 in Berlin. The work­shop was orga­nized by the ‘Inno­va­tion in Gov­er­nance Research Group’ Berlin  as part of its research on … Con­tinue read­ing →

Nature is not for sale! 2nd Forum on the Natural Commons on 2 June 2014 at the Regent’s Park Hub, London

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 Counter event to the No Net Loss Con­fer­ence: 2nd Forum on the Nat­ural Com­mons on 2 June 2014 in Lon­don Crit­ics of Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets have a grow­ing lobby, espe­cially in the UK, where the gov­ern­ment seems to rush want­ing to push … Con­tinue read­ing →

George Monbiot’s criticism on Biodiversity Offsets and the Natural Capital Agenda: “The pricing of Everything”

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Crit­i­cism on the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Agenda and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets George Mon­biot has pre­sented a detailed (how­ever mostly neg­a­tive) analy­sis of his crit­i­cism on the Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Agenda (in the UK) includ­ing Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets as one part of it at his … Con­tinue read­ing →

BBOP holds first No Net Loss Conference on Biodiversity Offsets, June, 3 — 4, 2014, London

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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 →