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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, […]