Workshop on biodiversity offsets and habitat banking on September 20, 2016 in Barcelona (Spain)

The Depart­ment for Sus­tain­abil­ity of the Direc­ción de Políti­cas Ambi­en­tales de la Gen­er­al­i­tat de Cataluña (Barcelona, Spain) is orga­niz­ing a work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets and habi­tat bank­ing (in Span­ish), enti­tled “Hacia la No Pér­dida Neta de bio­di­ver­si­dad en la eval­u­ación ambi­en­tal: … Con­tinue read­ing

Open skies for the future of BBOP

The past meet­ing of the advi­sory group of the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gram (BBOP12) which took place in Barcelona Octo­ber 26–27, 2015 is one of the exam­ples of events that I attended and that are great which I feel … Con­tinue read­ing

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

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

Manifesto for conservation banks in Spain — a guest post by Mercados de Medio Ambiente

This is a guest post by Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente, a plat­form for the pro­mo­tion of envi­ron­men­tal mar­kets by Span­ish con­sul­tancy ECOACSA.  This com­ment has pre­vi­ously been pub­lished on Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente. It is the expres­sion of the author’s … Con­tinue read­ing

PhD study: ECOLOGICAL COMPENSATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN SPAIN: CURRENT PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

Ana Vil­lar­roya Bal­larin has pre­pared a PhD study focus­ing on envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ment and bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in Spain at the fac­ulty of sci­ences at Uni­ver­sity of Navarra. The work is enti­tled “ECOLOGICAL COMPENSATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN SPAIN: CURRENT … Con­tinue read­ing