BBOP Publications Library

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

Biological 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 UNEP’s Global Biodiversity Assessment. The same document states that in some EU Member States up to 24% of the species of certain groups […]

Protecting Shareholder and Natural Value

Insight Investment is the asset manager of the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS plc), with £71.8 billion of assets under management, as at 31 March 2004. 11.7% of Insight’s investments in equities and substantial bonds holdings are in oil & gas, mining & minerals and utilities companies.1 Insight applies its policy on corporate governance and […]

Biodiversity Offsets and Stakeholder Participation

This Resource Paper was prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to consider and develop best practice related to biodiversity offsets. It provides information on stakeholder identification, engagement and participation in the design and implementation of biodiversity offsets, considering both the […]

Exploring potential demand for and supply of habitat banking in the EU and appropriate design elements for a habitat banking scheme

This report presents the findings of a research project undertaken by GHK Consulting Ltd (ICF GHK) and BIO Intelligence Service (BIO IS) for DG Environment to explore potential demand for and supply of habitat banking in the EU, and appropriate design elements for a habitat banking scheme. The research examined the following topics: ■ The […]

Options and Financial Mechanisms for the Financing of Biodiversity Offsets

White Paper

To date very little attention has been paid to the design and development of adequate financing and associated mechanisms to support offset funding needs across both the short and long term. Addressing offset financing is a topic of growing relevance and importance for governments, companies and civil society. In practical terms, financial sustainability together with […]

Biodiversity: Life’s Variety

Biodiversity 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

This 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

Attention 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 nation’s wetland resources. The report concluded that “the goal of no net loss […]

Global Biodiversity Outlook: Chapter 1 – Status and Trends of Global Biodiversity

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the changing status of the world’s biological diversity. The first sections below provide general information on the nature and scope of biological diversity, and broad trends at genetic and species level. Subsequent sections outline the status of the general ecosystem types that are the […]

BBOP Overview – 2009

An overview of BBOP and the concept of biodiversity offsets, published in 2009. The document accompanied the publication of a broad set of guidance, including handbooks on offset design and implementation, issues papers, case studies and a glossary of terms. This overview presents the vision, mission and goals of BBOP, and its achievements. It also […]