BBOP Publications Library

The Wetlands Policy of the Commonwealth Government of Australia

In 1995 the Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia (formerly the Australian Nature Conservation Agency), as the designated administrative authority for implementation in Australia of the Ramsar Convention, began the process of preparing this Policy. The Agency was responding to encouragement for signatory governments to develop such policy instruments, as a means of pursuing the global […]

Conservation Banking as a Market-Based Incentive for Recovery of T&E Species

Ecosystem Services theory, in practice: Supply and demand = financial value; However: ‘demand’ by private parties for ‘public goods’ is mediated primarily by law (to a lesser extent by strategy and ethics); Therefore: Financial value depends on policy and enforcement.

Encouraging Voluntary Initiatives for Corporate Greening

None of the usual options – the market, conventional regulatory authority and customary propriety – can meet the challenge of moving toward sustainability in a dynamic, globalizing political economy. At least they cannot do so as usually applied and haphazardly associated. Efforts to build a coherent and well integrated set of motivations for “voluntary initiatives” […]

Les mesures compensatoires des atteintes à la biodiversité

Compensatory measures for impacts on biodiversity

Delphine Morandeau and Jean Plateau from the Ministère de l’Écologie, de l’Énergie, du Développement durable et de la Mer – En charge des Technologies vertes et des négociations sur le climat, presented to the working group on “Infrastructure and sustainable development” on April 15, 2010. The Sustainable Development Department of the Caisse des Dépôts brougtht […]

Biodiversity Offsets – A Further Update On The Law

An update on developments related to biodiversity offsets and environmental compensation in New Zealand. The author examines a number of key issues, previously the subject of considerable debate, now characterized as appearing to have been settled, through the decisions taken by the Environment Court and Boards of Inquiry on five cases.

Where is the avoidance in the implementation of wetland law and policy?

Abstract Many jurisdictions in North America use a ‘‘mitigation sequence’’ to protect wetlands: First, avoid impacts; second, minimize unavoidable impacts; and third, compensate for irreducible impacts through the use of wetland restoration, enhancement, creation, or protection. Despite the continued reliance on this sequence in wetland decision-making, there is broad agreement among scholars, scientists, policymakers, regulators, […]

International Approaches to Compensation for Impacts on Biological Diversity

International Approaches to Compensation for Impacts on Biological Diversity

The starting point of this research project is the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Through the ratification of the CBD, member countries have made a commitment to support the conservation of biological diversity. In the sixth Environment Action Programme 2001 – 2010 (“Our Future, Our Choice“) the European Union established the preservation of biodiversity […]

Environmental Offsets: Position Statement No 9

In recent decades, there have been several attempts at developing and using environmental offsets as an environmental management tool in Western Australia (WA). For example, in the 1980s and 1990s government agencies attempted to counter adverse environmental impacts to Swan Coastal Plain wetlands by creating, conserving or enhancing wetlands elsewhere.

Application of NATURA 2000 in the Marine Environment

Short contributions from the participants illustrated that Member States have made very different progress in the identification and selection process of marine sites for NATURA 2000. The meeting had to recognize that overall the implementation is making very slow progress. On one hand only very few pure marine sites have been selected so far, many […]

Federal Guidance on the Use of TEA-21 Preference for Mitigation Banking to Fulfill Mitigation Requirements Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act