[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 …

Principles to gain a social licence to operate for green initiatives and biodiversity projects

F Vanclay - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Green initiatives have had negative social impacts and are contested.•The
physical and economic displacement of local people has been a major impact.•The human …

Deforestation in protect areas in the Amazon: a threat to biodiversity

PFPR Paiva, M de Lourdes Pinheiro Ruivo… - Biodiversity and …, 2020‏ - Springer
The creation of protected areas (Protected Areas—CA and Indigenous Lands—IL) is one of
the effective strategies to contain deforestation, and landscape fragmentation and conserve …

Local conditions and policy design determine whether ecological compensation can achieve No Net Loss goals

LJ Sonter, JS Simmonds, JEM Watson… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Many nations use ecological compensation policies to address negative impacts of
development projects and achieve No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity and ecosystem …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception

P Le Billon - Journal of Political Ecology, 2021‏ - journals.librarypublishing.arizona …
Extraction and conservation seem to be polar opposites, yet they entertain multiple relations
as the'greening'of extractive activities mobilizes conservation efforts to address the'extinction …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal assessment of deforestation and forest degradation indicates spillover effects from mining activities and related biodiversity offsets in …

S Eckert, L Schmid, P Messerli… - … Applications: Society and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Mining has severe environmental and social impacts. To compensate for the environmental
damage caused at mining sites, mining companies are required to engage in biodiversity …

No net loss for people and biodiversity

VF Griffiths, JW Bull, J Baker… - Conservation …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Governments, businesses, and lenders worldwide are adopting an objective of no net loss
(NNL) of biodiversity that is often partly achieved through biodiversity offsetting within a …

Now is the time for conservationists to stand up for social justice

EJ Milner-Gulland - PLoS Biology, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
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