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 […]
Native Vegetation Act 1991, Reprint No 4
Government of AustraliaAn Act to provide incentives and assistance to landowners in relation to the preservation and enhancement of native vegetation; to control the clearance of native vegetation; and for other purposes. This Act is published under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002 and incorporates all amendments in force as at 24 November 2003.
Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex II
European UnionMost species listed in this Annex are also listed in Annex IV. Where a species appears in this Annex but does not appear in either Annex IV or Annex V, the species name is followed by the symbol (o); where a species which appears in this Annex also appears in Annex V but does not […]
Credit for Conservation: A Report on Conservation Banking and Mitigation Banking in the USA , with its Applicability to New South Wales
Mark SheahanConservation banking and mitigation banking programs in the USA provide useful examples of the development of market-based systems for habitat, native vegetation, and biodiversity. The US schemes, despite being operated in a range of jurisdictions, share a number of common components this report identifies and describes 10 essential elements of banking schemes.
The Theory and Practice of Transferring Development Rights: The Institutions for Contracting for Biodiversity
Timothy SwansonThis study explains why the theory of transferable development rights, runs into difficulty because of the lack of legal bases and institutions for the transfer. The problem, in brief is that while ownership rights at a domestic level can be “un-bundled” though legal agreements such as leases or land zoning, the same can not be […]
Guidance Notes to the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets
BBOPThese Guidance Notes to the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets (the Standard) have been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help auditors, developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to assess biodiversity offsets against the Standard on Biodiversity Offsets.