BBOP Publications Library

Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

In order to achieve our goals, the conservation community must determine the extent to which our actions are working – and we must be able to diagnose why some actions succeed while others do not. In recent years, there has been great convergence among conservation organizations in thinking about how best to plan and implement […]

Biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy: a review of current application in the banking sector

A study completed on behalf of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme and the UNEP Finance Initiative by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

This study was jointly commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP), to explore the following themes: ● Familiarity and awareness among the financial sector of the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity offsets; ● Corporate policy approaches of banks in understanding and addressing biodiversity […]

Compensating for damage to biodiversity

An international benchmarking study

This study by the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE) examines the implementation of offsets globally, identifying best practices in order to inform the French regulatory and methodological framework on offsets. To do this, 29 countries were surveyed (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada (Quebec), Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, […]

BBOP Standard (Japanese Translation)