The British Ecological Society (BES) in a recent post looks at uncertainty and unanswered questions with regard to biodiversity offsets. The author of the article concludes that since the UK government’s consultation closed at the end of 2013, “the Government … 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
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
Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia and Chloe Hill, Green Economy Technical Advisor for WWF Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cambodia are the editors of a new book on payments for ecosystem services that has been published in association with IUCN and UNEP, end … Continue reading
Recently, the IUCN Technical Study Group on Biodiversity Offsets has published some new resources (see also my previous posts Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Paper and Biodiversity Offsets: Policy options for governments). Thanks to Patrick at the BBOP Secretariat for sharing … Continue reading
The Canadian NGO Ontario Nature has recently released a report entitled “Insights into Biodiversity Offsetting in Ontario”. The report is the outcome of a project on biodiversity offsetting (started in July 2013), which was supported by the Metcalf Foundation. It … 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
The question whether accountants “can save the planet” as the subtitle of the new book by Jane Gleeson-White (“Six Capitals. The revolution capitalism has to have — or can accountants save the planet?”) suggests, points to the core of the … Continue reading
Sarah Benabou has published a new paper on “Making Up for Lost Nature? A Critical Review of the International Development of Voluntary Biodiversity Offsets” in Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 5, Number 1, 2014, pp. 103–123(21). You can access the … 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