BBOP Publications Library

Consultation Document to Accompany Insight’s Presentation to the World Parks Congress, 13 September 2003 – Biodiversity: Towards Best Practice for Extractive and Utility Companies

Human activities are making an increasing impact on the integrity of ecosystems that provide essential resources and services for human well-being and economic activities. In particular, biodiversity2 is being lost at an unprecedented rate,3 while global population and consumption are growing4. This presents a risk both to business and to society more broadly.

Resource Paper: No Net Loss and Loss-Gain Calculations in Biodiversity Offsets

This document is one of two Resource Papers (the other is on Limits to What Can Be Offset) written to update and complement information already published in the Offset Design Handbook (BBOP, 2009) and to support the interpretation and understanding of the Principles, Criteria and Indicators being developed for the BBOP Standard on Biodiversity Offsets […]

Working towards NNL of Biodiversity and Beyond Ambatovy, Madagascar

A Case Study (2014)

Ambatovy joined the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) in 2006 as a pilot project. In 2009, Ambatovy, together with BBOP, published a case study on the company’s biodiversity management and offset work up to that point (available at https://www.forest-trends.org/documents/fi les/doc_3118.pdf). The present document serves as an update on Ambatovy’s progress achieved since then and […]

Environmental Offset Policies, Principles, and Methods: A Review of Selected Legislative Frameworks

Environmental offsets seek to ensure that unavoidable adverse environmental impacts of development are counterbalanced by environmental gains, with the overall aim of achieving a net neutral or beneficial outcome. In line with sustainable development, offsets represent one important tool for maintaining or enhancing environmental values in situations where social and economic development is sought despite […]

Victoria ‘s Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action – Summary Brochure 1

The need for a consistent approach to native vegetation management and retention across the State and support for Local Government during the introduction of the Framework, were issues repeatedly highlighted by submissions to the draft document. In recognition of this feedback and the technical nature of the Framework, there are 10 regionally based Native Vegetation […]

New Regulations could mean Big Business for US Mitigation Bankers?

John Ryan, the President of Land and Water Resources Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, is the perfect example of how environmental markets are transforming the way people do business in the US. In Ryan’s particular case, not only has his business been radically transformed, but so has his life, his career, and even his legacy.

Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Development

Increasingly, areas of interest for oil and gas development are also being recognized and valued for their biodiversity resources. Biodiversity, the complex web of genes, species, ecosystems and ecological processes that sustain life on Earth, provides human society with food, medicines, natural resources, ecological services and spiritual and aesthetic benefits. Yet, this biodiversity is under […]

THE USE OF MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS FOR BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION – THE CASE OF HABITAT BANKING

Summary Report for European Commission DG Environment

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is the summary report of the consortium led by Economics For The Environment Consultancy Ltd (eftec) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) for the contract for European Commission Directorate-General Environment on “The Use of Market-based Instrument for Biodiversity Protection – the case of habitat banking” (ENV.G.1/ETU/2008/0043).

Compensating for damage to biodiversity

the American experience of wetlands banks

Review of the US experience with wetlands banking

Strengthening implementation of the mitigation hierarchy

managing biodiversity risk for conservation gains

The scale and pace of development is intensifying across the mining, oil & gas, agriculture, infrastructure, forestry and housing sectors. Such rapid and large scale expansion in commercial development threatens to irreversibly transform landscapes around the world, putting pressure on biodiversity and the people that depend on it for their livelihoods and well-being. Understanding the […]