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How can regulators support business to go green? Please share your knowledge and experiences!

Marianne Darbi — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:41:01 +0000

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 →

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A la espera de los Bancos de Conservación de la Naturaleza (Waiting for conservation banks in Spain) — a guest post by Alfonso Carretero

guest — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:53:53 +0000

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 →

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Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy? — paper by Curran, Hellweg and Beck

Marianne Darbi — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:47:00 +0000

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 →

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Results of the No Net Loss Public Consultation now available online!

Marianne Darbi — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 22:06:47 +0000

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 →

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French Assemblée Nationale has decided upon a resolution on the (planned) EU No Net Loss Initiative

Marianne Darbi — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:41:48 +0000

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 →

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CALL FOR ISSUE PAPERS — RESPONSIBLE NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMIES IN AFRICA

guest — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:06:37 +0000

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 →

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Marine and terrestrial biodiversity offsets: so close and yet so far away — a comment by Céline Jacob

guest — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:36:09 +0000

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 →

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The theory-practice gap in biodiversity offsets — a comment by Alan Key

guest — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:27:40 +0000

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 →

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Newsletter of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, September 2014

Marianne Darbi — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:13:52 +0000

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 →

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Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 8–14, 2014

Marianne Darbi — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:56:15 +0000

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 →

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