A global overview of biodiversity offsetting governance

Droste, Nils; Olsson, Johanna Alkan; Hanson, Helena I.; Knaggård, Åsa; Lima, Guilherme Alcantara Cunha; Lundmark, Linda; Thoni, Terese; Zelli, Fariborz

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115231

Cited by 27 publications

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“…The use of biodiversity offsets has increased in popularity with governments and businesses adopting offsetting policies and practices to address the environmental impacts of development (Droste et al, 2022). Biodiversity offsets are a mechanism for compensating for biodiversity losses through equivalent gains elsewhere (Bull et al, 2013).…”

Section: Biodiversity Offsetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survival of the Fittest? A Call for Hospitality to Incorporate Ecology Into Business Practice and Education

Legrand,

Kuokkanen,

Marucco

et al. 2023

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

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Biodiversity and the science that addresses its conservation, loss, and recovery, including conservation biology and restoration ecology, are high on the contemporary global agenda. While the hospitality industry has taken major steps toward net carbon zero and even net positive business, we argue that it has another significant advance to make. The United Nations has dedicated 2021–2030 as the decade of ecosystem restoration, and along with it, several other organizations offer guidance on how businesses should approach the natural environment. Considering the role of hospitality as a consumer of nature, we call for the industry to implement these principles in practice through nature-based solutions and restorative and regenerative hospitality. To strengthen this transformation, we urge hospitality management education to include the basic concepts of ecology, biodiversity, and environmental science, along with their application, in curricula. By doing this, education can advance from presenting sustainability actions as a necessity into illustrating and justifying their need on a planetary scale. The change will facilitate the next step the hospitality industry must take in transforming its relationship with the natural environment.

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Section: Biodiversity Offsetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survival of the Fittest? A Call for Hospitality to Incorporate Ecology Into Business Practice and Education

Legrand,

Kuokkanen,

Marucco

et al. 2023

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

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“…Conservation and restoration frameworks and requirements have been implemented as part of policy and legislation in many countries to slow or halt the loss of aquatic resources (Droste et al, 2022;McKenney & Kiesecker, 2009). Frameworks range from global goals to slow climate change and its adverse effects on freshwater species to mitigation and offsetting requirements that development proponents must meet to compensate for approved negative impacts on the environment (Droste et al, 2022;McKenney & Kiesecker, 2009). While many of these frameworks receive 100 s of millions of dollars of investment each year, it often remains unclear how effective these efforts are in conserving freshwater biodiversity or establishing new habitats (BenDor et al, 2011;zu Ermgassen et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The need to conserve freshwater species and resources requires extensive protection, management, and restoration efforts. Conservation and restoration frameworks and requirements have been implemented as part of policy and legislation in many countries to slow or halt the loss of aquatic resources (Droste et al, 2022; McKenney & Kiesecker, 2009). Frameworks range from global goals to slow climate change and its adverse effects on freshwater species to mitigation and offsetting requirements that development proponents must meet to compensate for approved negative impacts on the environment (Droste et al, 2022; McKenney & Kiesecker, 2009).…”

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A multi‐metric index for assessing two decades of community responses to broad‐scale shoreline enhancement and restoration along the Toronto waterfront

Theis,

Cartwright,

Chreston

et al. 2024

Aquatic Conservation

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Biodiversity and habitat loss due to historical and continued urbanization and anthropogenic development require continuous efforts to abate ongoing environmental decline. Restoration and enhancement efforts that aim to address biodiversity and habitat loss, have shown some promise at providing suitable habitat for species in the more urbanized nearshore areas of Lake Ontario. Using 20 years of fish community data from the Toronto waterfront, this study examined ecosystem responses in a spatio‐temporal context across wetland and embayment ecotypes. The goals of this study were to (1) assess how fish communities have changed over time in restored, reference and more and less urbanized nearshore ecosystems and (2) determine if restored and enhanced habitats meet the defined fish community management targets. Fish communities were assessed through a newly developed multi‐metric index based on species life history traits and habitat associations like trophic and thermal guild. Fish communities along the waterfront have transitioned from cool and coldwater pelagic species to a higher proportion of native warmwater species, many of them piscivores, associated with cover and vegetation, that meet community targets. These changes are more pronounced at the largest restoration site ‘Tommy Thompson Park’, where community indices approach natural reference levels. This result indicates the benefits and effectiveness of the decade‐long restoration efforts and subsequent monitoring of responses. Our results underline that large‐scale restoration projects in urbanized settings can be of vital importance for freshwater conservation efforts, as well as application scenarios for multi‐metric community indices, and will play an even larger role when looking at Lake Ontario or the Great Lakes as a whole.

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“…Proponents are responsible for offsetting impacts to avoid serious harm to fisheries productivity and fish habitat [ 1 , 2 ]. Offsetting is the last step in the mitigation hierarchy, which begins with defining the predicted impact (i.e., harm/damage) to the ecosystem, followed by mitigation measures such as avoidance of impacts by moving the project to less impacted areas, minimization through mitigation measures (e.g., staging vehicles off-site), rehabilitation (e.g., repairing riparian areas from trampling), and leaving the residual impact that needs to be offset ( Fig 1 ; [ 3 , 7 , 8 ]). The goal of offsetting is to compensate for the authorized loss of species, habitat, or ecosystem services with the objective of achieving No Net Loss (NNL), which means providing equal or greater benefits (net positive gains) through the compensatory mitigation measures than the residual negative impact [ 4 , 9 ].…”

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Mitigation bank applications for freshwater systems: Control mechanisms, project complexity, and caveats

Theis,

Poesch

2024

PLoS ONE

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Biodiversity and mitigation banking has become a popular alternative offsetting mechanism, especially for freshwater species and systems. Central to this increase in popularity is the need for sound control mechanisms to ensure offset functionality. Two commonly used mechanisms are monitoring requirements and staggered release of bank credits over time. We used data from 47 banks in the United States, targeting freshwater systems and species. Based on the 47 banks meeting our criteria we showed that control mechanisms generally scale with increased project complexity and that banks release most of their total credit amount within the first 3 years. We further showed that advance credits are common and can increase the potential for credit release without providing tangible ecological benefits. Physical and biological assessment criteria commonly used by banks let us identify three main bank types focusing on connectivity, physical aspects, and habitat and species and their application possibilities and caveats to provide different ecosystem benefits for freshwater species and systems affected by anthropogenic development.

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A global overview of biodiversity offsetting governance

Cited by 27 publications

References 125 publications

Survival of the Fittest? A Call for Hospitality to Incorporate Ecology Into Business Practice and Education

Survival of the Fittest? A Call for Hospitality to Incorporate Ecology Into Business Practice and Education

A multi‐metric index for assessing two decades of community responses to broad‐scale shoreline enhancement and restoration along the Toronto waterfront

Mitigation bank applications for freshwater systems: Control mechanisms, project complexity, and caveats

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