The IAPB/BCA/WEF coalition continues to promote its framework for "high integrity" biodiversity credit markets. An in-depth look makes us find that several of its features contradict the high integrity claim. In particular, we find that: - the underlying funding gap framing is questionable; - the fact that market solutions are most often used against - …
Could biodiversity credits fund a significant part of Indonesia’s conservation policies in the future? And how credible is it to expect credits without offsets?
This short brief explores the question of revenues from the sale of biodiversity credits & offsets for Global South countries, and the question of likely and realistic it is to expect biodiversity credits not used for offsetting purposes. Download brief
Who Needs (some) Offsets?
In a short apologia, Joseph Bull claims that offsets in general, and biodiversity offsets in particular, are unfairly criticised by unscientific moralists and are, on the contrary, unquestioningly essential adn unavoidable to 'some' unspecified extent. His claim rests on three main arguments: offsetting is a necessity under existing internatinoal agreements, it is essential for closing …