“…It is not surprising, then, that BO faces many challenges: conceptual challenges such as choice of metric, spatial delivery of offsets, equivalence, additionality, timing, longevity, ratios, and reversibility and practical challenges such as compliance, monitoring, transparency, and timing of credits release [4,28]. For several years, many studies have questioned BO [5,21,[29][30][31][32][33][34], including some jurists who take a critical stance [8,[35][36][37][38][39]. To them, BO is more like a "check box" that fails to guarantee an NNL of biodiversity [6,12,28,[40][41][42][43][44][45].…”