BBOP Publications Library

Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Glossary 2018

BBOP Principles

Working for Biodiversity Net Gain

An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) 2004–2018

Working for Biodiversity Net Gain

An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme: 2004-2018

No Net Loss (NNL) in Corporate Natural Capital Accounting (CNCA)

Technical Report

A 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

The 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

The 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

A 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 […]

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Act No. 91 of 1999 as Amended, Volume 1

The objects of this Act are: to provide for the protection of the environment, especially those aspects of the environment that are matters of national environmental significance; and to promote ecologically sustainable development through the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of natural resources; and to promote the conservation of biodiversity; and to provide for the […]