Business and Biodiversity: Offsetting the impact on biodiversity
CREMThe discussion paper under review with respect to biodiversity offsets is one of the documents constituting the output of the project Business and Biodiversity in developing countries higher on the agenda of Dutch companies quoted on the stock exchange: identification of concepts and strategies of the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO).
Preliminary Position Statement No 9 Environmental Offsets: Comments by the Conservation Commission of Western Australia
Government of AustraliaIt is pleasing to see that the Environmental Protection Authority is aiming to achieve more rigour in assessing the need for and the appropriateness of particular offset initiatives. Offsets have been an important aspect of environmental management and decision making in Western Australia for many years. The Commission is particularly interested in the maintenance or […]
Report from the Commission on the Implementation of the Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora Composite Report on Overall Progress Achieved
European UnionBiological diversity, essential for the maintenance of life on Earth, is being lost on a global level at a rate higher than at any other time in the past, according to the UNEPs Global Biodiversity Assessment. The same document states that in some EU Member States up to 24% of the species of certain groups […]
Ecological Interactions and Evolution: Forgotten Parts of Biodiversity
Thomas Bohn, Per-Arne AmundsenOrganisms are shaped contemporaneously by ecological processes and over long periods of time by evolution. These activities have lead to the diversification of life. But is the diversity of life all biodiversity is? We argue that biodiversity is the conclusion drawn both from the variety of life forms and the variety of processes that have […]
Mining and Biodiversity: Towards Best Practice
The World COnservation Union, International Council on Mining and MetalsEconomic development, social equity and environmental protection are the essential elements of sustainable development. The nexus between economic development and the conservation of natural resources has been, in particular, a subject of recurrent debate.
Estándar sobre compensaciones por perdida de biodiversidad
BBOPSpanish translation of the BBOP Standard on Biodiversity Offsets
Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss
Toby Gardner, Amrei von Hase - International Institute for Sustainability, Forest TrendsBusinesses, governments, and financial institutions are increasingly adopting a policy of no net loss of biodiversity for development activities. The goal of no net loss is intended to help relieve tension between conservation and development by enabling economic gains to be achieved without concomitant biodiversity losses. biodiversity offsets represent a necessary component of a much […]
Biodiversity: Life’s Variety
Government of AustraliaBiodiversity has many values. At the most fundamental level, biodiversity is the basis for healthy, functioning ecosystems that are necessary to maintain essential ecosystem services. These include: soil formation, nutrient storage and cycling, plant pollination and pollution breakdown and absorption. Put simply, biodiversity provides all the critical processes that make life possible.
A Prototype Toolkit for Scoring the Biodiversity Benefits of Land Use Change, Version 5.1
Ian Oliver, David ParkesThis document is a prototype guide that can be used to assess the biodiversity benefits (and disbenefits) likely to result from a change in land use. This toolkit aims to strike a balance between a meaningful, defensible and practical approach, and builds upon the Habitat Hectares methodology developed by the Department of Natural Resources and […]
Measuring Mitigation: A Review of the Science for Compensatory Mitigation Performance Standards
Environmental Law InstituteAttention to the federal compensatory mitigation program has been growing over the years and became heightened after the release of a National Academy of Sciences 2001 report evaluating the success of compensatory mitigation to achieve no net loss of function of the nations wetland resources. The report concluded that the goal of no net loss […]