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BBOP

BBOP Principles

BBOP Advisory Group

BBOP

Working for Biodiversity Net Gain

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

BBOP Secretariat

BBOP

Working for Biodiversity Net Gain

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

The BBOP Secretariat

BBOP

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

Technical Report

Ian Dickie, Adams Koshy, Kerry ten Kate, Amrei von Hase

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 […]

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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 […]

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Natural Community Conservation Planning

California Department of Fish and Game

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 […]

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Conservation and Mitigation Banking: Highlights of Resources Agency Policy for Establishing Conservation Bank

California Department of Fish and Game

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.

BBOP

Official Policy on Conservation Banks

Douglas Wheeler, James Strock

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 […]

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Natural Alliances between Conservationists and Indigenous Peoples

Michael Painter, Kent Redford - WCS, WCS

The survival of both indigenous peoples and much of what remains of nature lies in the ability of both sides to find common ground. However, parks and protected areas have become the focus of conflict between conservationists and indigenous peoples. This antipathy is based on differing views about the nature of human impact on the […]