[HTML][HTML] Are corporate biodiversity commitments consistent with delivering 'nature-positive'outcomes? A review of 'nature-positive'definitions, company progress and …

SOSE Zu Ermgassen, M Howard, L Bennun… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are growing calls for businesses to implement 'nature-positive'strategies.
Convergence around a precise definition is now needed. We review definitions of 'nature …

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

LJ Sonter, MC Dade, JEM Watson… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated
biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will …

Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development

JW Bull, LJ Sonter, A Gordon, M Maron… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving global sustainability objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals
or Aichi Targets, including remaining within planetary boundaries, necessitates proactively …

[HTML][HTML] Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss

H Kujala, M Maron, CM Kennedy, MC Evans, JW Bull… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or
lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human …

On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar's biggest mine

K Devenish, S Desbureaux, S Willcock… - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development
with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major …

Horizontal ecological compensation policy and water pollution governance: evidence from cross-border cooperation in China

J Yu, Q **an, S Cheng, J Chen - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Cross-border cooperation can overcome the administrative boundaries of water pollution
governance, and the two-way ecological compensation model emerges as a solution to …

Watershed carbon compensation based on land use change: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt

S Yang, W Fu, S Hu, P Ran - Habitat International, 2022 - Elsevier
Watershed carbon compensation can not only reduce carbon emissions but also promote
regional coordinated development. Although existing studies have shown that carbon …

[HTML][HTML] The hidden biodiversity risks of increasing flexibility in biodiversity offset trades

SOSE zu Ermgassen, M Maron, CMC Walker… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Market-like mechanisms for biodiversity offsetting have emerged globally as supposedly
cost-effective approaches for mitigating the impacts of development. In reality, offset buyers …

An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

R Venegas‐Li, HS Grantham, H Rainey… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will become the most
important multilateral agreement to guide biodiversity conservation actions globally over the …

Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England

SOSE zu Ermgassen, S Marsh, K Ryland… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Net outcome‐type biodiversity policies are proliferating globally as perceived mechanisms
to reconcile economic development and conservation objectives. The UK government's …