BBOP Publications Library

Environmental Offset Policies, Principles, and Methods: A Review of Selected Legislative Frameworks

Environmental offsets seek to ensure that unavoidable adverse environmental impacts of development are counterbalanced by environmental gains, with the overall aim of achieving a net neutral or beneficial outcome. In line with sustainable development, offsets represent one important tool for maintaining or enhancing environmental values in situations where social and economic development is sought despite […]

Victoria ‘s Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action – Summary Brochure 1

The need for a consistent approach to native vegetation management and retention across the State and support for Local Government during the introduction of the Framework, were issues repeatedly highlighted by submissions to the draft document. In recognition of this feedback and the technical nature of the Framework, there are 10 regionally based Native Vegetation […]

New Regulations could mean Big Business for US Mitigation Bankers?

John Ryan, the President of Land and Water Resources Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, is the perfect example of how environmental markets are transforming the way people do business in the US. In Ryan’s particular case, not only has his business been radically transformed, but so has his life, his career, and even his legacy.

Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Development

Increasingly, areas of interest for oil and gas development are also being recognized and valued for their biodiversity resources. Biodiversity, the complex web of genes, species, ecosystems and ecological processes that sustain life on Earth, provides human society with food, medicines, natural resources, ecological services and spiritual and aesthetic benefits. Yet, this biodiversity is under […]

THE USE OF MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS FOR BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION – THE CASE OF HABITAT BANKING

Summary Report for European Commission DG Environment

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is the summary report of the consortium led by Economics For The Environment Consultancy Ltd (eftec) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) for the contract for European Commission Directorate-General Environment on “The Use of Market-based Instrument for Biodiversity Protection – the case of habitat banking” (ENV.G.1/ETU/2008/0043).

Compensating for damage to biodiversity

the American experience of wetlands banks

Review of the US experience with wetlands banking

Strengthening implementation of the mitigation hierarchy

managing biodiversity risk for conservation gains

The scale and pace of development is intensifying across the mining, oil & gas, agriculture, infrastructure, forestry and housing sectors. Such rapid and large scale expansion in commercial development threatens to irreversibly transform landscapes around the world, putting pressure on biodiversity and the people that depend on it for their livelihoods and well-being. Understanding the […]

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 1

The objects of this Act are: to provide for the protection of the environment, especially those aspects of the environment that are matters of national environmental significance; and to promote ecologically sustainable development through the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of natural resources; and to promote the conservation of biodiversity; and to provide for the […]

Decreto No 4.340, 22 Agusto 2002

Art. 2o O ato de criação de uma unidade de conservação deve indicar: a denominação, a categoria de manejo, os objetivos, os limites, a área da unidade e o órgão responsável por sua administração; a população tradicional beneficiária, no caso das Reservas Extrativistas e das Reservas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável; a população tradicional residente, quando couber, […]

Federal Guidance on the Use of In-Lieu-Fee Arrangements for Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act

The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are issuing final policy guidance regarding the use of in-lieu-fee arrangements for the purpose of providing compensation for adverse impacts to wetlands and other aquatic resources. Compensatory mitigation projects are designed to replace aquatic […]