Mining and Biodiversity in South Africa: A Discussion Paper
Kristal Maze, Susie Brownlie, Amanda DriverThis paper focuses on biodiversity conservation planning and how it provides a useful tool for land-use planning and impact assessment in the mining sector in South Africa. The mining sector is a major landowner and land user in South Africa, and has considerable obligations in terms of our policy and legal framework to take biodiversity […]
Carbon Forestry Projects in Developing Countries: Legal Issues and Tools
Patsy DavisIncreasing awareness of the need for action on global warming has produced a search for ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to sequester carbon to offset such emissions. At the present time nations around the globe are hotly debating whether to put into force the Kyoto Protocol, a climate control regime that mandates […]
Loss-Gain calculations in German Impact Mitigation Regulation
MARIANNE DARBI - CHRISTIAN TAUSCHAs a result of more than 30 years practice German IMR is a compensation approach which is outstanding due to its comprehensive character and the broad scientific base and discussion. One of the core issues of this discussion has – since the beginning – been the debate on appropriate balancing and evaluation methods to put […]
Key ingredients for Biodiversity Offsets to Achieve No Net Loss
Dr. Amrei von Hase, Dr. Toby GardnerTo ensure that offsets contribute effectively towards reconciling development and conservation and achieving no net loss of biodiversity, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the key ingredients are for meeting this goal. This guidance document reviews the key conditions and considerations that underpin no net loss. A conceptual framework and decision-making process […]
BBOP Standard (Portuguese Translation)
BBOPPortuguese Translation of BBOP Standard
Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004: Environmental Outcomes Assessment Methodology
Government of AustraliaIn December 2003 the Government undertook a major overhaul of natural resource management institutions in NSW by passing the Natural Resources Commission Act, 2003 Catchment Management Authorities Act 2003 and the Native Vegetation Act 2003. These new reforms were built on the Wentworth Groups report to Premier Carr of February 2003.
Auctions for Conservation Contracts: An Empirical Examination of Victoria’s BushTender Trial
Gary Stoneham, Vivek Chaudhri, Arthur Ha, Loris StrappazzonA century ago in Australia food and fibre were scarce relative to the supply of habitat. Today the opposite could be argued. Governments now face the problem of encouraging landholders to provide public goods, such as habitat conservation, in the face of an economic environment that facilitates the production of private goods.
Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks
Government of the United Stateshe Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are issuing final policy guidance regarding the establishment, use and operation of mitigation banks for the purpose of providing compensation for adverse impacts to wetlands and other aquatic resources. […]
BHP Billiton Petroleum in Liverpool Bay , United Kingdom : A Major Offshore Development is Established in an Area of High Environmental Sensitivity
International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation AssociationLiverpool Bay lies in the eastern Irish sea against the coasts of North Wales and North-West England, a heavily industrialized coastline. Exploration activities carried out by BHP Billiton Petroleum during 1990 were the first to locate significant supplies of commercial oil and gas; such exploration and production activities were relatively new to the area at […]
BBOP Glossary Phase 1
A glossary of terms relating to biodiversity offsets, as published in May 2009. This document will be replaced by an updated version in March 2012.