Compensation for biodiversity losses: can varied approaches deliver? A comment by Carlos Ferreira

This is a guest post by Car­los Fer­reira, Research Assis­tant in the Cen­ter for Busi­ness in Soci­ety at Coven­try Uni­ver­sity. He can be reached at carlos.ferreira@coventry.ac.uk. It is the expres­sion of the author’s thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity offsets are not a business — why I don’t think we’ll have a commercial platform for biodiversity offsets somewhere in Europe, soon

This is an opin­ion post by Mar­i­anne Darbi, researcher at Leib­niz Insti­tute of Eco­log­i­cal Urban and Regional Devel­op­ment (Ger­many) and founder of the Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Blog. This com­ment is the expres­sion of my own thoughts and expe­ri­ences and as such is … Con­tinue read­ing

(Last) Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, December 8–31, 2014

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

Case studies of biodiversity offsetting: voices from the ground — a critical briefing note from Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth rep­re­sent some of the strongest crit­ics to Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets both as a con­cept and in prac­tice. They have pre­pared a short brief­ing note enti­tled “Case stud­ies of bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting: voices from the ground” includ­ing a crit­i­cal … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, December 1–7, 2014

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

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, November 17–23, 2014

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

BBOP webinar TODAY, Thursday, December 4, 2014: Moving targets and comparing offset methodologies

I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webi­nar being held in an hour’s time from now. This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as This time the topic is: … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 1–7, 2014

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

Introduction to Biodiversity Offsetting, Workshop, 6 November 2014, London

The Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment is hold­ing a one-day intro­duc­tory work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting on Novem­ber 6, 2014, 10am — 4pm in Lon­don, man­aged by Dr. Julia Baker. Costs of 90/180 British Pounds apply (member/non-member). Unfor­tu­nately the … Con­tinue read­ing

Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek, September 22–28, 2014

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 easy … Con­tinue read­ing