The call for papers for the National Biodiversity Offsets Conference 3.0 closes 12 March! This year's conference will take place from 23-25 July in Canberra. Submit your abstract 👉 ow.ly/kpzB50QM9Sv #BiodiversityOffsets #NaturePositive

Early bird registrations for the National #BiodiversityOffsets Conference 3.0 close 30 April! Register now to secure the discount 👉 ow.ly/4SbX50RlK0t #NaturePositive

Thank you to our event sponsors Niche, Umwelt, 2rog Consulting & EMM Consulting!

What do Orgs opposed to #BiodiversityOffsets in Australia's proposed #NatureRepairMarket reckon?

Still support a #BiodiversityMarket even if it doesn't exclude offsets or adopt all your safeguards?

cartoon credit: Green Finance Observatory

A masterclass from Martine Maron on #counterfactuals and how easy it is to 'game' the system to earn more credits than you should for protecting #nature #biodiversityoffsets #biodiversitycredits
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The latest thread from the brilliant Sophus zu Ermgassen on what is one of the central outputs from his PhD.

A new paper exploring EMPIRICALLY whether #BiodiversityOffsets (for a given jurisdiction) have led to #NoNetLoss .

SPOILER ALERT: it depends on your counterfactual!

Attention #NatureRepairMarket

Platform for Sustainable Finance, an expert working grp to EU's executive arm, calls for #BiodiversityOffsets to be REMOVED fr draft delegated acts published by the Commission

PSF suggest offsetting NOT be encouraged in any legislation fr Brussels

UK's #BiodiversityOffsets scheme

Fantastic financial industry claims abt demand but...

'Credits are generated & sold to developers for immediate use based on projected, not achieved, nature gains'

“We’re trading a certain degradation in the environment for an uncertain gain”

A. Sène I share your outrage!
Quite old now, but I feel like sharing this piece with you 💚

#biodiversityoffsets #uranium #casualties #HinkleyPoint #Namibia #GreenGrowth [?]

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This is welcome. Auditing technically already happens. However, most #offset conditions are vague & not tied to environmental outcomes, making enforcement difficult: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
I hope the govt also applies a mirror in this audit #biodiversityoffsets

Can you tell the difference between #BiodiversityOffsets & payments for #EcosystemServices ?

This #SINCEREresearch article explores their definition of these two concepts and explains their impact on ecosystems 👉 sincereforests.eu/biodiversity-o…

For anyone interested in what's going on in the US and globally in #environmentalmarkets , this is a great conference. Well-curated set of speakers and great chance to meet people working in areas like #biodiversityoffsets #carbonmarkets #naturebasedsoluti …lnkd.in/gt_AfGjh

A widespread critique of #BiodiversityOffsets is that they reduce complex lifeforms to a tradeable statistic and can “crowd out” people's motivations to conserve nature

Others ask whether there should even be a market for a public good, such as biodiversity

🗣 Polly Hemming

🔓 #openaccess #CommercialFishery #BiodiversityOffsets

Examining the Redistribution of Fishery Benefits in Biodiversity Offset Policies

Find out more about the research from UQ News m.x-mol.net/paper/detail/1…

Fascinating thread/article on #BiodiversityOffsets . Though we should be careful not to extrapolate from one (apparently problematic) offset to generalise about all of them, it’s so important that offset projects are independently and vigorously critiqued, as Lisa Song is @lisalsong.bsky.social does here.

If you think #CarbonOffsets are problematic, wait to hear about #BiodiversityOffsets .

They basically propose that you can ' #Offset ' #BiodiversityLosses and critically endangered species deaths by temporaly 'protecting nature' somewhere else.

Take a look: propublica.org/article/biodiv…

Well worth the read for anyone interested in what is needed to ensure that market-based instruments for #climate change mitigation actually work. Also relevant to #biodiversityoffsets and the proposed #NatureRepairMarket

Can the market save the environment? abc.net.au/radionational/…
Experts Megan Evans & Polly Hemming are rightly skeptical of a #NatureMarket given the failure of #biodiversityoffsets to protect habitats or established #carbonmarkets to reduce dangerous GHG emissions.
#epbc #auspol

“While #biodiversityoffsets have been used by governments, banks & industries at least 13,000 times across 37 countries, these arrangements have been subjected to far less scrutiny than #carbonoffsets , which my investigations have found to be profoundly flawed.”

Francis_Young Senator Murray Watt Senator Penny Wong Katy Gallagher There is know such animal. With the anticipated tens of thsds extra due to the extra costs incurred by the changes to the NCC & the extra costs to developers with the advent of the BiodiversityOffsets scheme which could add another 200 thsd to a block of land a new home is ???

What can go wrong? #carbonoffsets and #Biodiversityoffsets are a great new business opportunity… #BiodiversityMarkets #carbonmarkets both great ways to compensate BAU lnkd.in/eexpVHET