The Role of Monitoring and Compliance in Securing Better Biodiversity Outcomes through Offsetting Arrangements
Dr Matt Baber - Tonkin & TaylorThis report investigates the role of monitoring and compliance in securing better conservation outcomes through biodiversity offsetting arrangements under the Resource Management Act. The report provides: * an overview of the resource consent monitoring purpose and process under the RMA; * an assessment of the resource consent monitoring process in relation to biodiversity offsets; * […]
Estándar sobre compensaciones por perdida de Biodiversidad
BBOPSpanish translation of BBOP Standard
Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004
Government of AustraliaThis Regulation is the Native Vegetation Regulation 2004. In this Regulation: development consent means development consent required by the Act for the cleaning of native vegetation.
Threatened Biodiversity Survey and Assessment: Guidelines for Developments and Activities Working Draft
State of New South Wales, Department of Environment and ConservationThe conservation of threatened plants, animals and their habitats in New South Wales (NSW) is integral to maintaining species diversity. As the diversity of species and their habitats may be adversely affected by developments, it is important that informed decisions regarding the impact of developments can be made. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 […]
Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Government of the United StatesIt is the purpose of this title: to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements; to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops; to […]
Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity
International Council on Mining and MetalsDebate over the importance of biodiversity is increasing due to greater awareness of the need to protect biodiversity, the increasing presence of larger mining operations in remote, undeveloped locations, and in particular, the significantly increasing demands and pressures on biodiversity through an expanding population.
Biodiversity Offset Cost-Benefit Handbook
BBOPTo be successful, biodiversity offsets should compensate indigenous peoples, local communities and other local stakeholders for any residual impacts of the project on their biodiversity based livelihoods and amenity. They also need to deliver the required conservation gains without making local people worse off, for example due to land and resource use restrictions created by […]
Conservation when nothing stands still: moving targets and biodiversity offsets
Joseph Bull, Kenwyn B Suttle, Navinder J Singh, EJ Milner-Gulland - Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Imperial College LondonConservation is particularly difficult to implement for moving targets, such as migratory species or landscapes subject to environmental change. traditional conservation strategies involving static tools (eg protected areas that have fixed spatial boundaries) may be ineffective for managing species whose ranges are changing. This shortfall needs to be addressed urgently. More dynamic conservation-based approaches have […]
The Value of the IUCN Red List for Business Decision-Making
Leon Bennun, Eugenie C. Regan, Jeremy Bird, Jan-Willem van Bochove, Vineet Katariya, Suzanne Livingstone, Robin Mitchell, Conrad Savy, Malcolm Starkey, Helen Temple, John D. Pilgrim - The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, International Finance Corporation, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity Consultancy, The Biodiversity ConsultancyThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides assessments of extinction risk for over 80,000 species. It has become an important tool for conservation and for informing natural resource policy and management more broadly. Over the last 1015 years, the role of the Red List in business decision-making has become increasingly significant. We describe the […]
BBOP Draft Consultation Paper for CBD COP9
BBOP SecretariatThere is a tremendous opportunity today to secure biodiversity conservation and business benefits through the appropriate use of biodiversity offsets. Many companies are actively seeking partnerships with governments and conservation groups to address the environmental impacts of their activities and to enhance their contribution to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The Business and Biodiversity Offsets […]