Founded in October 2011, the Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro, BVRio) is a market for trading “environmental assets”, including carbon credits, forest credits, industrial effluent credits, tire disposal credits, and recycling credits.
Biodiversity Offsets
There are 7 posts tagged Biodiversity Offsets (this is page 1 of 1).
Banking Nature. Or cashing in on the destruction of nature
A new documentary film, Banking Nature looks at the Brave New World of species banking, biodiversity offsets, wetlands credits, ecosystem markets, and putting a price on nature.
Stop biodiversity offsets: Thousands sign letter to the European Commission
More than 9,000 people and 67 organisations have signed on to a letter urging the European Commission to drop its plans for biodiversity offsetting. Biodiversity offsets would “harm nature and people” and “give power to those who destroy nature for profit”, the letter states.
Biodiversity offsetting makes dreams come true – for developers
Five years ago, the European environment commissioner Stavros Dimas warned that biodiversity loss posed a threat as serious as climate change. But the EU continues to lose biodiversity.
Biodiversity offsetting is a licence to trash
A proposal in the UK to destroy ancient woodland to make way for a £40 million motorway service station clearly reveals the flaws of biodiversity offsets.
Biodiversity offsetting in action: Bulldoze the UK’s ancient woodlands? No problem, just plant some trees
The Right Honourable Owen Paterson MP is the UK’s Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Commenting on his appointment in 2012, George Monbiot described it as “a declaration of war on the environment”.
No to Biodiversity Offsetting
The World Forum on Natural Capital started yesterday in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s a large event, with 500 people from 35 countries taking part. Messages of support came from Nick Clegg MP and Prince Charles.