BBOP Publications Library

Multi-Agency Compensatory Mitigation Plan Checklist

This document is intended as a technical guide for Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 permit applicants preparing compensatory mitigation plans. Compensatory mitigation is required to offset impacts that cannot be avoided and minimized to the extent practicable. The purpose of this document is to identify the types and extent of information that agency personnel […]

Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experience, and the Business Case

Biodiversity1 offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes, such as wetland and conservation banking in the USA, tradable forest conservation obligations in Brazil and habitat compensation requirements in Australia, Canada and the EU, has been supplemented by growing interest […]

BBOP Glossary

2012 Update

A glossary of terms related to biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy, with particular reference to the BBOP approach and materials.

Biodiversity Offsets

Testing a Possible Method for Measuring Biodiversity Losses and Gains at Bardon Hill Quarry, UK

Introduction Biodiversity offsets can be defined as ‘measurable conservation outcomes resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development after appropriate prevention and mitigation measures have been taken’ (BBOP 2009). The goal of biodiversity offsets is to achieve no net loss (or preferably a net gain) of biodiversity […]