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BBOP Assurance and Guidelines Working Group Meetings
Cambridge, UK, 16-18 March, 2010
The objective of this three day meeting was to review and develop the work to date of BBOP’s Assurance (AWG) and Guidelines (GWG) Working Groups, and to plan their work until the next full Advisory Group meeting in September 2010, and beyond.
Day one was dedicated to the AWG. A panel of invited guests shared their lessons from recent experiences with assurance and standards development. The structure and logic of BBOP’s draft Performance/ Criteria/ Indicators (P/C/I) framework was discussed. Day two was shared between the AWG and GWG. Science issues including thresholds for non – offsetable impacts and loss-gain approaches were explored, and the implications and lessons learned from the Ambatovy pilot project experience were shared. Day three focused on guidelines, and began with a presentation on how and where BBOP guidelines address socioeconomic and cultural issues. The process for incorporating new knowledge from phase 2 into the existing BBOP toolkit was decided. BBOP’s options for approaching other key scientific and methodological issues were debated. Advice was sought from the companies present on how the assurance and guidelines work streams can best help business. Upcoming milestones for the AWG and GWG were presented; all attendees were welcomed to join future teleconferences.
11 April 2010, Geneva Switzerland
BBOP organised a session on biodiversity offsets at the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) 2010 annual conference held in Geneva from 6-11 April. The session was chaired by Helen Byron from RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) – BirdLife International is one of the members of BBOP's Advisory Group.
The session which was attended by around 40 people started with an introduction to BBOP from Helen Byron – which outlined BBOP’s structure, the phase 1 pilot projects and outputs, BBOP's definition and goal of biodiversity offsets, and key principles. It also highlighted mechanisms for implementing offsets, integrating offsets into planning via impact assessment and the BBOP priorities to 2012. (Click HERE for presentation in PDF)
This was followed by four presentations giving diverse perspectives on biodiversity offsets:
- Ambatovy Project: From impact assessment to offsetting – a presentation by Paul Andrianaivomahefa on one of the BBOP Phase 1 projects
- New biodiversity offset strategies: “Earth banking” and “Satoyama banking” – by Dr Akira Tanaka from Tokyo City University, Japan
- Stakeholder views on offsets and their use in EIA in Western Australia by Dr Garry Middle from Curtin University
- Compensation and restoration: Quantitative Methods by Leonardo Marotta from Entropia Snc consultants in Italy
BBOP User Needs Assessment: Completed
March, 2010
As part of its work plan up to 2012, BBOP is to prepare training materials and run courses in order to support financial institutions, environmental consultants, companies, governments and members of civil society in designing and implementing offsets.
BBOP carried out a User Needs Assessment (click here to view the Executive Summary), in order to determine who might be interested in training on the mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity offsets, what kind of training they need, and what length, content and format the training courses should have.
Thank you very much to all those who completed the 4-page questionnaire by February 5th 2010. Your responses will help BBOP design and structure its capacity building and training program, and supporting materials, over the next few years. We hope that the programme and materials to be developed over Phase II will be of value to you and your colleagues in the future.
BBOP Conservation Banking and Aggregated Offsets Workshop
29 June, 2009
Paris, France
The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program held a workshop on 29 June, 2009 in Paris, France to discuss the viability of conservation banking and aggregated offsets outside the current regulatory systems in the United States and Australia. Best practices and necessary preconditions for biodiversity banking and aggregated offsets were presented, and the group identified necessary steps to help countries and potential offset providers determine appropriateness of banking/ aggregation models in different settings. The opportunities and risks of both regulated and voluntary schemes were examined by the group. Below are links to presentations given at the workshop.
BBOP Meeting with with Representatives of Indigenous and Local Communities and Associated Experts
June 11 , 2008
Washington, DC, USA
BBOP convened consultation meeting on June 11, 2008 in Washington, DC, USA, which brought together 19 participants with a variety of expertise in biodiversity offsets and indigenous and local communities' participation issues. The purpose of this meeting was to introduce BBOP to indigenous and local communities representatives and experts, and engage participants in a discussion on how to improve the draft BBOP documents.
A summary of the event and presentation can be found here:
BBOP Side Event at SBSTTA13
February 19, 2008
Rome, Italy
BBOP held a side event at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), thirteenth meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 13) on Tuesday, 19 February 2008. A summary of the event can be found here:
Ghana Policy Workshop
November, 6, 2007
Accra, Ghana
On Tuesday November 6, 2007, the Business and Biodiversity Program (BBOP), Conservation International – Ghana, with support from Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd, held a policy workshop in Accra, Ghana with government officials and representatives of the extractive industry, to discuss biodiversity offsets and their use as a tool for conservation in Ghana.
Biodiversity Offsets - a Tool for Conservation and Development: An Open Discussion
June 18-21, 2007
Bainbridge Island, Washington State, USA
Presentations
June 18 - Learning Network
BBOP at IAIA 2007
Presentations:
Environmental Compensation for Biodiversity and Development: Towards a Sufficient Compensation
February 15-16, 2007
Instituto Nacional de Ecología, Mexico City, Mexico
This first meeting on environmental compensation for biodiversity and development, hosted by INE in conjunction with the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP), analyzed the existing situation in Mexico for environmental compensations/offsets for residual damages caused to biodiversity by development projects. The meeting served as a time to exchange ideas and opinions, provide technical analysis, and identify and promote criteria and mechanisms for environmental compensation that is economically and biologically viable. Approximately 40 people from a variety of sectors, including developers, governments and NGOs, participated in the meeting.
Presentations
- Introducción al concepto de la compensación ambiental por afectaciones a la biodiversidad (offsets de biodiversidad): Kerry ten Kate, Forest Trends
- El precedente legal y práctico de la compensación ambiental en México: Mauricio Trejo, CONANP
- Práctica y perspectivas de la compensación ambiental en México: experiencias de la CONAFOR:
Samuel García Carreón, CONAFOR
- El Desarrollo Forestal Sostenable: Eje de la política de Estado Nacional: Francisco García,
DGGSF-SEMARNAT
- Aplicación de medidas de compensación ambiental derivadas del procedimiento de evaluación del impacto ambiental: Andrés Chacón, DGIRA-SEMARNAT
- La compensación ambiental: Juan Carlos Carrillo, CEMDA
- La empresa Shell y los offsets de biodiversidad: Estudio de caso: Deric Quaile, Shell/IUCN
- Contexto gubernamental de los offsets de biodiversidad: Marja Preston, Ministerio Ambiental de la Ciudad de Bainbridge, EUA
- Experiencia internacional con los offsets de biodiversidad: Josh Bishop, IUCN
The Role of Biodiversity Offsets in Conservation: An Open Discussion
September 29, 2006
Pretoria, South Africa
Presentations
diversity Offsets at Development Projects: A roundtable discussion
June 21, 2006
Antanavario, Madagascar
Meeting Presentations
Learning Network Meeting: Uganda
June 16, 2006
Kampala, Uganda
BBOP and Gyelloba convened a Learning Network meeting with policymakers in Uganda. The meeting discussed the conservation and livelihood objectives of biodiversity offsets, the business case for engaging companies, and potential opportunities for Uganda. In attendance were individuals from the National Environment Management Authority of Uganda, the National Forestry Authority of Uganda, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Forest Trends, Gyelloba, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Uganda Wildlife Agency, and specialists in the fields of law and ornithology.
The Role of Biodiversity offsets in conservation: An open roundtable discussion
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Curitiba , Brazil
Meeting Presentations:
The Role of Biodiversity Offsets in Conservation: Side Event at the Conference to the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Curitiba, Brazil
Meeting Presentations:
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