We have called in the past on governments, multilateral bodies, conservation organizations and other actors to stop the promotion, development and use of biodiversity offsetting and crediting schemes. Both biodiversity credits and offsets have indeed been found to lack environmental integrity, contribute to greenwashing, and create risks of land-grabbing and human rights abuses. As they …
Biodiversity credits: high integrity or no integrity? An in-depth look at IAPB/BCA/WEF’s framework
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