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Biodiversity Offsets - Effective Design and Implementation

Corporate author
OECD
Date
2016
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-092703)
Publisher | Place of publication
OECD | Paris, France
ISBN
9789264222458
Pages
224 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
United States of America, Germany, Mexico
Subject
Wild species & ecosystems
Keyword
Policy/planning Biodiversity
Abstract

This report examines the key design and implementation features that need to be considered to ensure that biodiversity offset programmes are environmentally effective, economically efficient, and distributionally equitable. Biodiversity offsets are being increasingly used in a wide range of sectors as a mechanism to help compensate for the adverse effects caused by development projects in a variety of ecosystems. In this report, insights and lessons learned are drawn from more than 40 case studies from around the world, with an additional 3 in-depth country case studies from the United States, Germany and Mexico.

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