The EKLIPSE project, funded by the EU in H2020, is developing a European Mechanism to answer requests from policy makers and other societal actors on biodiversity related issues. A request on supporting businesses to improve the outcomes of their operations … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Alfonso Carretero who holds a master’s degree in conservation biology and in environmental management from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and Instituto Superior del Medio Ambiente in cooperation with Nebrija Business School. This comment has … 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
As many have impatiently waited for it, I am happy to announce that the results of the European Commission’s public consultation on its planned No Net Loss Initiative are published online on the website of the European Commission. The internet … Continue reading
Recently, I got some interesting news from France: the French Assemblée Nationale has decided upon a resolution on the (planned) EU No Net Loss Initiative. For more information see the article “L’assemblée Nationale publie le rapport sur l’initiative envisagée par … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Joël Houdet, Senior Research Fellow at African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Johannesburg (South Africa). For any further information, please contact Joël directly. Call for issue papers: Responsible Natural Resource Economies in Africa. The African Center for Technology Studies … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Céline Jacob, PhD Student on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Offsets at CREOCEAN — Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier (France). This comment is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Alan Key from Australian consultancy Earthtrade. This comment is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and such is acknowledged as a fruitful contribution to the discussion on biodiversity offsets. If you want … 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
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