Business Planning for Biodiversity Net Gain
Technical Notes to the Roadmap
Kerry ten Kate, Susie Brownlie with Julia Baker, Joshua Berger, Anne-Marie Bor, Wijnand Broer, Frederique Desmoulins, Steven Dickinson, Mark Goedkoop, Colette Grosscurt, Amrei von Hase, Patrick Maguire and Roel Nozeman
BBOP Principles
BBOP Advisory Group
Working for Biodiversity Net Gain
An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) 2004–2018
BBOP Secretariat
Working for Biodiversity Net Gain
An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme: 2004-2018
The BBOP Secretariat
No Net Loss (NNL) in Corporate Natural Capital Accounting (CNCA)
Technical Report
Ian Dickie, Adams Koshy, Kerry ten Kate, Amrei von HaseA natural capital account can be used to quantify and compare the wider environmental benefits of planning for No Net Loss (NNL) or Net Gain (NG) of Biodiversity. However, such accounts have tended to over-simplify biodiversity and its ecosystem services in the past. Using a NNL or NG methodology, through a biodiversity metric, can improve […]
No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact Approaches for Biodiversity
Exploring the potential application of these approaches in the commercial agriculture and forestry sectors
This report is an outcome of an exploratory workshop held by IUCN in October 2013, and subsequent discussions in 2014, of a working group of relevant business and conservation experts (see authorship and participation on page 3). The working group was convened by IUCN’s Global Business and Biodiversity Programme. It is the beginning of a […]
Natural Community Conservation Planning
California Department of Fish and GameThe Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP) program of the Department of Fish and Game is an unprecedented effort by the State of California, and numerous private and public partners, that takes a broad-based ecosystem approach to planning for the protection and perpetuation of biological diversity. An NCCP identifies and provides for the regional or areawide […]
Conservation and Mitigation Banking: Highlights of Resources Agency Policy for Establishing Conservation Bank
California Department of Fish and GameThe site must provide for the long term conservation of habitat and species. The bank is established pursuant to a legally enforceable Implementing Agreement (signed by all agencies involved). The site must be large enough to be ecologically self sustaining and/or part of a larger conservation strategy.
Official Policy on Conservation Banks
Douglas Wheeler, James StrockA conservation bank is a single parcel, or a series of contiguous or non-contiguous parcels, of habitat which is managed for its natural resource values. The resource benefits derived from this management regime are sold as “credits” to project proponents who seek mitigation opportunities to compensate for resource impacts elsewhere. Credits may be generated to […]
Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation
Robin Naidoo, Taylor H. RickettsResources for biodiversity conservation are severely limited, requiring strategic investment. Understanding both the economic benefits and costs of conserving ecosystems will help to allocate scarce dollars most efficiently. However, although cost-benefit analyses are common in many areas of policy, they are not typically used in conservation planning. We conducted a spatial evaluation of the costs […]