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This page provides a comprehensive set of materials on the evolving science, policy, and experience with environmental compensation schemes around the world:

Author	Title	Country	Date
Native Vegetation Council	Guidelines For a Native Vegetation Significant Environmental Benefit Policy For the clearance of native vegetation associated with the minerals and petroleum industry	South Australia	2005
Latimer, William and David Hill	Mitigation Banking: Securing No Net Loss to Biodiversity?	United Kingdom	2008
Peterson, Annah L., Chloe Hill, Louise A. Gallagher	Balancing Biodiversity’: A Global Instrument for Meeting the 2010 Biodiversity Target	All	2008
BBOP Secretariat	BBOP Draft Consultation Paper for CBD COP9	All	2008
Luiz Gustavo Escorcio Bezerra	Biodiversity Offsets in National (Brazil) and Regional (EU) Mandatory Arrangements: Towards an International Regime?	Brazil, EU	2007
Donlan, C. Josh and Chris Wilcox	Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles	All	2007
Wilcox, Chris and C. Josh Donlan	Compensatory mitigation as a solution to fisheries bycatch-biodiversity conservation conflicts	All	2007
Donlan, C. Josh and Chris Wilcox	Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles	All	2007
Philips, Adrian	A Whole Landscape Approach for a Holistic Century	All	2006
Naidoo, Robin, et al.	Inegrating economic costs into conservation planning	All	2006
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)	Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options	All	2006
Laurance, William, et al.	Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments	All	2006
CREM	Business and Biodiversity: Offsetting the impact on biodiversity	Netherlands	March 2005
Robin Naidoo, Taylor Ricketts	Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation	United States	November 2006
Agrawal, Agun and Kent Redford	Poverty, Development, and Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting in the Dark?	United States	2006
Painter, Michael and Kent Redford	Natural Alliances between Conservationists and Indigenous Peoples	United States	2006
Government of Australia	Environmental Offsets: Position Statement No 9, Version 2	Australia	2005
Biodiversity Neutral Initiative (BNI)	Biodiversity Offset Case Study:Compañía Minera Antamina’s Polylepis Initiative	Peru	2006
Bruce McKenney	Environmental Offset Policies, Principles, and Methods: A Review of Selected Legislative Frameworks		March 30, 2005
Baird, Tony	How Can a Native Vegetation Offset Policy Contribute to a ‘No Net Loss' of Native Vegetation Quality and Quantity?	Australia	2003
Croft, Tim, Georgina House, Alison Oppermann, Ann Shaw Rungie, and Tatia Zubrinich	Summary: Biodiversity Plan for the South East of South Australia, 1999	Australia	1999
Fish, Sarah, David Snashall, and James Steater	Offsetting Environmental Impacts to Facilitate Mining	Australia	2004
Government of Australia	Annual Report of the Native Vegetation Council, 2001/2002	Australia	September, 2002
Government of Australia	Biodiversity: Life's Variety	Australia	1999
Government of Australia	Biodiversity Trading: Protecting our Unique Biodiversity	Australia
Government of Australia	Compensatory Wetlands: A Discussion Paper Under the NSW Wetlands Management Policy	Australia	November, 2002
Government of Australia	Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004	Australia	2004
Government of Australia	Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004: Environmental Outcomes Assessment Methodology	Australia	2004
Government of Australia	Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2004: Regulatory Impact Statement	Australia	2004
Government of Australia	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 1	Australia	January 1, 2004
Government of Australia	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 2	Australia	January 1, 2004
Government of Australia	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000: Statutory Rules 2000 No. 181 as Amended	Australia	January 1, 2004
Government of Australia	Environmental Offsets: Position Statement No 9	Australia	July, 2004
Government of Australia	Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988: Version No 030	Australia	June 29, 2000
Government of Australia	Green Offsets for Sustainable Development: Concept Paper	Australia	April, 2002
Government of Australia	Native Vegetation Act 1991	Australia	1991
Government of Australia	Native Vegetation Act 1991, Reprint No 4	Australia	November 24, 2003
Government of Australia	Native Vegetation Act 1997, Reprint No 1	Australia	February 5, 2002
Government of Australia	Native Vegetation Act 2003 No 103	Australia	December 11, 2003
Government of Australia	National Objectives and Targets for Biodiversity Conservation, 2001-2005	Australia	2001
Government of Australia	The NSW Wetlands Management Policy	Australia	June, 2000
Government of Australia	Offsets, Salinity and Native Vegetation: Discussion Paper	Australia	July, 2001
Government of Australia	Planning and Environment Act 1987: Version No 075	Australia	December 15, 2004
Government of Australia	Preliminary Position Statement No 9 – Environmental Offsets: Comments by the Conservation Commission of Western Australia	Australia	December 15, 2004
Government of Australia	Productivity Commission Inquiry into Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations	Australia	August, 2003
Government of Australia	Submission by the Government of Australia : (Decision VII/18 of the Seventh Conference of the Parties: Incentive Measures)	Australia
Government of Australia	Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Act 2002	Australia	December 19, 2002
Government of Australia	Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Project Update	Australia	October, 2003
Government of Australia	Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Regulations 2002	Australia	December 19, 2002
Government of Australia	Victoria 's Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action	Australia
Government of Australia	Victoria 's Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action – Summary Brochure 1, Summary 2, and Summary 3	Australia
Government of Australia	The Wetlands Policy of the Commonwealth Government of Australia	Australia	January, 1997
Oliver, Ian, and David Parkes	A Prototype Toolkit for Scoring the Biodiversity Benefits of Land Use Change, Version 5.1	Australia	August, 2003
Parkes, David, Graeme Newell, and David Cheal	Assessing the Quality of Native Vegetation: The ‘Habitat Hectares' Approach	Australia	February, 2003
State of New South Wales , Department of Environment and Conservation	Biodiversity Certification and Banking in Coastal and Growth Areas	Australia	July, 2005
State of New South Wales , Department of Environment and Conservation	Threatened Biodiversity Survey and Assessment: Guidelines for Developments and Activities – Working Draft	Australia	November, 2004
Stoneham , Gary , Vivek Chaudhri, Arthur Ha, and Loris Strappazzon	Auctions for Conservation Contracts: An Empirical Examination of Victoria's BushTender Trial	Australia	2003
van Merwyk, Tony, and Simmon Daddo	Structuring Environmental Offsets for a Sustainable Advantage	Australia
Government of Brazil	Decreto No 4.340, 22 Agusto 2002	Brazil	August 22, 2002
Government of Brazil	Lei No 9.985, 18 Julho 2000	Brazil	July 18, 2000
Government of Brazil	Lei No 14.247, 29 Julho 2002	Brazil	July 29, 2002
Government of Brazil	Reserva Vegetação: Decreto No 5.392, 3 Abril 2001	Brazil	April 3, 2001
European Union	Application of NATURA 2000 in the Marine Environment	Europe	2001
European Union	Assessment of Plans and Projects Significantly Affecting NATURA 2000 Sites	Europe	November, 2001
European Union	Council Directive of 2 April 1979 on the Conservation of Wild Birds Annex I Annex II Annex III	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex I	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex II	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex III	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex IV	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats of Wild Fauna and Flora: Annex V	Europe	May 1, 2004
European Union	Implementing the Habitats Directive in Marine and Coastal Areas	Europe	1998
European Union	Managing NATURA 2000 Sites: The Provisions of Article 6 of the ‘Habitats' Directive 92/42/CEE	Europe	2000
European Union	Natura 2000 and Forests ‘Challenges and Opportunities'	Europe
European Union	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	Europe
World Wildlife Fund	NATURA 2000: Opportunities and Obstacles	Europe	1999
Driver, Amanda, Richard Cowling, and Kristal Maze	Planning for Living Landscapes: Perspectives and Lessons from South Africa	South Africa	2003
Maze, Kristal	A Representative Sample of all Biodiversity Pattern	South Africa
Maze, Kristal, Amanda Driver, and Susie Brownlie	Mining and Biodiversity in South Africa: A Discussion Paper	South Africa	2004
Bauer, Marybeth, Jessica Fox, and Michael Bean	Landowners Bank on Conservation: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Guidance on Conservation Banking	United States	August, 2004
Bayon, Ricardo	New Regulations could mean Big Business for US Mitigation Bankers?	United States
California Department of Fish and Game	Conservation and Mitigation Banking: Highlights of Resources Agency Policy for Establishing Conservation Bank	United States	August 15, 2002
California Department of Fish and Game	Natural Community Conservation Planning	United States	November 15, 2004
Davis, Adam	Conservation Banking as a Market-Based Incentive for Recovery of T&E Species	United States	October, 2003
Environmental Defense	Progress on the Back Forty: An Analysis of Three Incentive-Based Approaches to Endangered Species Conservation on Private Land	United States	January, 2000
Environmental Law Institute	Measuring Mitigation: A Review of the Science for Compensatory Mitigation Performance Standards	United States	April, 2004
Fish and Wildlife Service	Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and Operation of Conservation Banks	United States	May 2, 2003
Fish and Wildlife Service	Method for Determining the Number of Available Credits for California Red-Legged Frog Conservation Banks	United States	September 4, 2001
Government of the United States	Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996	United States	April 4, 1996
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks	United States	November 28, 1995
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on Protection and Mitigation of Difficult To Replace Aquatic Resources Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act	United States	August 27, 2004
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on the Use of In-Lieu-Fee Arrangements for Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act	United States	April 7, 2004
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on the Use of Off-Site and Out-of-Kind Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act	United States	April 7, 2004
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on the Use of Preservation as Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act	United States	August 27, 2004
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on the Use of TEA-21 Preference for Mitigation Banking to Fulfill Mitigation Requirements Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act	United States	July 11, 2003
Government of the United States	Federal Guidance on the Use of Vegetated Buffers as Compensatory Mitigation Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act	United States	August 27, 2004
Government of the United States	Federal Water Pollution Control Act	United States
Government of the United States	National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan	United States	December 24, 2002
Government of the United States	Physical Stream Assessment: A Review of Selected Protocols for Use in the Clean Water Act Section 404 Program	United States	September, 2004
Sheahan, Mark	Credit for Conservation: A Report on Conservation Banking and Mitigation Banking in the USA , with its Applicability to New South Wales	United States	2001
State of Florida - Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability	Policy Review: Wetland Mitigation – Report No 99-40	United States	March, 2000
Toyon Environmental Consultants, Inc.	Conservation Banking – A Technical Report	United States	1995
United States Army Corps of Engineers	Model “Operational Guidelines for Creating or Restoring Wetlands that are Ecologically Self-Sustaining” for Aquatic Resources Impacts Under the Corps Regulatory Program Pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act	United States	October 29, 2003
United States Army Corps of Engineers	Multi-Agency Compensatory Mitigation Plan Checklist	United States	November 7, 2003
Wheeler, Douglas, and James Strock	Official Policy on Conservation Banks	United States	April 7, 1995
White, Patricia, and Michelle Ernst	Conservation Banking	United States
White, Wayne	Conservation Banking: Lessons from California	United States
Bayon, Ricardo	Making Environmental Markets Work: Lessons from Early Experience with Sulphur , Carbon, Wetlands and Other Related Markets
Bohn, Thomas and Per-Arne Amundsen	Ecological Interactions and Evolution: Forgotten Parts of Biodiversity		September, 2004
Chomitz, Kenneth, Antonio Salazar Brandao, and Timothy Thomas	Creating Markets for Habitat Conservation When Habitats are Heterogeneous		2003
Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance	Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards		May, 2005
The Conservation Measures Partnership	Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation		June 29, 2004
Convention on Biological Diversity	Indicators for Assessing Progress Towards, and Communicating, the 2010 Target at the Global Level		November 11, 2004
Davis, Patsy	Carbon Forestry Projects in Developing Countries: Legal Issues and Tools		2000
The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative	Biodiversity Indicators for Monitoring Impacts and Conservation Actions
The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative	Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Development		2003
The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative	Opportunities for Benefiting Biodiversity Conservation		2003
F&C Asset Management	Is Biodiversity a Material Risk for Companies?		September, 2004
Gibson, Robert	Encouraging Voluntary Initiatives for Corporate Greening		September 20, 2000
Goldman Sachs	Global Energy: Introducing the Goldman Sachs Energy Environmental and Social Index		February 24, 2004
Grigg, Annelisa, and Kerry ten Kate	Protecting Shareholder and Natural Value		2004
International Council on Mining and Metals	Biodiversity Offsets – A Briefing Paper for the Mining Industry		May 12, 2005
International Council on Mining and Metals	Biodiversity Offsets: A Proposition Paper		July 21, 2005
International Council on Mining and Metals	Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity		May, 2005
International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association	BHP Billiton Petroleum in Liverpool Bay , United Kingdom : A Major Offshore Development is Established in an Area of High Environmental Sensitivity		2003
International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association	ChevronTexaco in San Joaquin Valley , California : Participating in a Major Habitat Conservation Plan to Protect the Natural Habitat and Endangered Species		2003
International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association	ChevronTexaco in the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development in Papua New Guinea's Rain Forests		2003
Kennedy, Elizabeth	DRAFT: The Outcomes Monitoring Framework: Detailed Indicator Descriptions		December, 2004
The Nature Conservancy	Draft Guidelines for Implementing Ecoregional Status Measures		April 28, 2005
Rolfe, John	Mining and Biodiversity: Rehabilitating Coal Mine Sites		Summer, 2000-01
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity	Akwé Kon Voluntary Guidelines		2004
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity	Global Biodiversity Outlook: Chapter 1 – Status and Trends of Global Biodiversity		2004
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity	Sustaining Life on Earth: How the Convention on Biological Diversity Promotes Nature and Human Well-Being		2000
Stavins, Robert	Market-Based Environmental Policies: What Can We Learn from U.S. Experience and Related Research?		August, 2003
Swanson, Timothy	The Theory and Practice of Transferring Development Rights: The Institutions for Contracting for Biodiversity		1995
ten Kate, Kerry	Biodiversity Offsets: Good for Business and Biodiversity?		November 20, 2004
ten Kate, Kerry	Consultation Document to Accompany Insight's Presentation to the World Parks Congress, 13 September 2003 – Biodiversity: Towards Best Practice for Extractive and Utility Companies		September 13, 2003
ten Kate, Kerry	Darwin Initiative Logical Framework
ten Kate, Kerry	Biodiversity Offsets: Mileage, Methods and (Maybe) Markets		November 1, 2003
ten Kate, Kerry, Josh Bishop, and Ricardo Bayon	Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experience, and the Business Case		November, 2004
ten Kate, Kerry, Josh Bishop, and Ricardo Bayon	Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experience, and the Business Case – Executive Summary		November, 2004
Tietenberg, Tom	The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?		2002
The World Conservation Union and International Council on Mining and Metals	Mining and Biodiversity: Towards Best Practice		July, 2003

Recent BBOP Publications

March 2008:
BBOP Draft Consultation Paper for CBD COP9