BBOP Publications Library

Biodiversity Offsets: Good for Business and Biodiversity?

What are biodiversity offsets? “Conservation actions intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, so as to ensure no net loss of biodiversity. Before developers contemplate offsets, they should have first sought to avoid and minimize harm to biodiversity.”

Resource Paper: Limits to What Can Be Offset

This document is one of two Resource Papers (the other being on No Net Loss) written to update information published in the BBOP Offset Design Handbook (2009) and to support the interpretation and understanding of the Principles, and of the Criteria and Indicators developed for the BBOP Standard on Biodiversity Offsets. The document specifically addresses […]

Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Paper

A report by the IUCN Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group

Summary report of the IUCN Biodiversity Offsets Technical Study Group, examining how can IUCN support best practice in offsetting

Biodiversity Offsets in National (Brazil) and Regional (EU) Mandatory Arrangements: Towards an International Regime?

Biodiversity is essential to maintaining the biosphere in a condition which supports human and other lives. The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg recognised the urgency of action against biodiversity loss. Biodiversity offset is a mechanism aiming to achieve no net loss or even net gain to biodiversity through the installation of […]

Native Vegetation Act 1997, Reprint No 1

An Act relating to the conservation and sustainable management of native vegetation and the clearing of land; to amend the Soil Conservation Act 1938 and certain other Acts; to repeal State Environmental Planning Policy No 46–Protection and Management of Native Vegetation ; and for related purposes.

Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex III

Assessment at national level of the relative importance of sites for each natural habitat type in Annex I and each species in Annex II (including priority naturalhabitat types and priority species).

Biodiversity Indicators for Monitoring Impacts and Conservation Actions

Indicators are a way of presenting and managing complex information in a simple and clear manner. Using an approach based on risk assessment, this document outlines a methodology for developing site-level indicators to monitor significant positive and negative biodiversity impacts and company-level indicators to inform and report on the approach taken to biodiversity conservation at […]

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

Technical Report for European Commission DG Environment

This research project examined the potential use of habitat banking in the EU as an economic instrument for biodiversity protection. This report identifies a range of information and experience with habitat banking from around the world, from economic theory and provides an institutional analysis for practical implementation. It aims to guide future European policy options.

La compensation des atteintes à la biodiversité à l’étranger

French language version: This study by the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE) examines the implementation of offsets globally, identifying best practices in order to inform the French regulatory and methodological framework on offsets. To do this, 29 countries were surveyed (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada (Quebec), Chile, China, the Czech Republic, […]

Strengthening Implementation of the Mitigation Hierarchy

Appendix (i) Case Study Reviews