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 …
Open letter to Indonesia’s biodiversity credits technical team
We understand that Indonesia officially committed to developing market based mechanisms to finance its biodiversity strategy in January, as a follow up to the memorandum of understanding between the country’s ministry of the environment and UK’s DEFRA, and of joining IAPB’s government forum during COP30. Following a meeting with representatives of the UK government in …
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