BBOP Publications Library

Exploring potential demand for and supply of habitat banking in the EU and appropriate design elements for a habitat banking scheme

This report presents the findings of a research project undertaken by GHK Consulting Ltd (ICF GHK) and BIO Intelligence Service (BIO IS) for DG Environment to explore potential demand for and supply of habitat banking in the EU, and appropriate design elements for a habitat banking scheme. The research examined the following topics: ■ The […]

Options and Financial Mechanisms for the Financing of Biodiversity Offsets

White Paper

To date very little attention has been paid to the design and development of adequate financing and associated mechanisms to support offset funding needs across both the short and long term. Addressing offset financing is a topic of growing relevance and importance for governments, companies and civil society. In practical terms, financial sustainability together with […]

Biodiversity: Life’s Variety

Biodiversity has many values. At the most fundamental level, biodiversity is the basis for healthy, functioning ecosystems that are necessary to maintain essential ecosystem services. These include: soil formation, nutrient storage and cycling, plant pollination and pollution breakdown and absorption. Put simply, biodiversity provides all the critical processes that make life possible.

A Prototype Toolkit for Scoring the Biodiversity Benefits of Land Use Change, Version 5.1

This document is a prototype guide that can be used to assess the biodiversity benefits (and disbenefits) likely to result from a change in land use. This ‘toolkit’ aims to strike a balance between a meaningful, defensible and practical approach, and builds upon the Habitat Hectares methodology developed by the Department of Natural Resources and […]

Measuring Mitigation: A Review of the Science for Compensatory Mitigation Performance Standards

Attention to the federal compensatory mitigation program has been growing over the years and became heightened after the release of a National Academy of Sciences 2001 report evaluating the success of compensatory mitigation to achieve no net loss of function of the nation’s wetland resources. The report concluded that “the goal of no net loss […]

Protecting Shareholder and Natural Value

Insight Investment is the asset manager of the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS plc), with £71.8 billion of assets under management, as at 31 March 2004. 11.7% of Insight’s investments in equities and substantial bonds holdings are in oil & gas, mining & minerals and utilities companies.1 Insight applies its policy on corporate governance and […]

BBOP Overview – 2009

An overview of BBOP and the concept of biodiversity offsets, published in 2009. The document accompanied the publication of a broad set of guidance, including handbooks on offset design and implementation, issues papers, case studies and a glossary of terms. This overview presents the vision, mission and goals of BBOP, and its achievements. It also […]

Gradsect theory and practice in biodiversity assessment

Introduction to Gradsect theory, an improved way of sampling biodiversity information baseline data, and its application to biodiversity offsets.

Marine No Net Loss

A feasibility assessment of implementing no net loss of biodiversity in the sea

The oceans are under threat; marine species populations declined by 49% between 1970 and 2012 (WWF, 2015). Anthropogenic pressures on the marine environment have increased over the past five years, with 66% of the high seas and 77% of areas within national jurisdiction showing increased human impact (Halpern et al., 2015). On land, policy goals […]

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