This is a speech given at the 2023 Beyond Growth Conference during the focus panel 13 – Repairing and restoring Nature in a beyond growth perspective: is putting a price on biodiversity the right way to go? Download speech
Offsets on-chained: a policy report on tokenised offsets & other “green” crypto-assets
An increasing number of initiatives are being launched to tokenise carbon and biodiversity offset credits. However, carbon offsetting remains controversial, having been plagued with environmental integrity and social and human rights issues, and found to represent only a limited part of the solution to the environmental crises. While more recent and less well known, biodiversity …
Saving nature or reinventing the City?
In its recent response to the consultation on Biodiversity Net Gain regulations and implementation, the UK government announced the creation of 3 new nature markets, on biodiversity offsetting, nutrient mitigation (aka river pollution) and flood alleviation, in addition to carbon sequestration. We find that the future biodiversity offset market fails to address the well-documented environmental …