Biodiversity and Forestry Seminars
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Webinar Announcement: From biodiversity Offsets to Target-Based Compensation - 23 October 2018
In this BBOP presentation, Martine Maron and Jeremy Simmonds will provide an overview of the concept of target-based compensatory conservation. This involves linking compensation for project-level impacts to broader biodiversity conservation goals, and resolving identified challenges around the concept of…
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Webinar - Thursday 20 Sept: Ensuring No Net Loss for people and biodiversity
Governments, businesses, and lenders worldwide are adopting an objective of no net loss (NNL) or Net Gain (NG) of biodiversity and using the 'mitigation hierarchy' to achieve it. Although ecological challenges to achieve NNL are debated, social impacts associated with…
ABCG It's All in Our Heads: Protecting Biodiversity with Behavior-Centered Design
Ever notice that almost all environment and sustainability challenges - from climate change to overfishing to biodiversity loss - share one thing in common? In order to solve them, people have to start behaving differently. But people are complicated social…
Advancing a Integrated Vision that Incorporates Health Outcomes into Biodiversity Conservation
Members from the Global Health Linkages to Biodiversity Conservation working group will present on year two progress toward objectives in implementing pilot activities in Western Tanzania and Southeastern Cameroon, and sharing recommendations for integrating nutrition and food security interventions into…
ABCG Event: Getting Consumers to Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Bushmeat Demand in Congo
The speakers of this ABCG seminar will describe the interdisciplinary framework of a two year pilot project to identify the key drivers behind urban bushmeat consumption in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, and present preliminary criminology, social, and market research…
ABCG Event: Using USAID's Applied Political Economy Assessment Framework to Improve Conservation Outcomes
Biodiversity conservation in the context of extractives is associated with the collapse of resource regimes, which occurs as a result of increased pressures on resources from new practices or people. It also can be credited to the political and economic…
Webinar Announcement: Marine Offsets at the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania
A symposium focusing on marine biodiversity offsetting was organized as part of the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania (SCBO) meeting, in Brisbane in July. The meeting brought together researchers working in academia, NGO and private industry to discuss the current…
Fish, Forks, and Food Security: The Importance of Wild Fisheries to Food and Job Security
Wild fisheries were highlighted in a recent Ag Sector Council Seminar hosted by Agrilinks.
Soil carbon in East Africa—centerpiece for carbon finance, climate adaptation and development
Please join us for an ABCG brown bag presentation featuring: Mark E. Ritchie, Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY; and President, Soils for the Future, LLC.
Wildlife law enforcement: A dissection of the challenges and the available tools
Greetings! Please join ABCG for a presentation featuring: Naftali Honig, Coordinator of PALF; and Founding Director, the EAGLE Network.
Webinar 14 December -The Next Generation of Mitigation: Principles and New Policies for Achieving Sustainable Development
Seats remain for this webinar in which, Bruce McKenney of The Nature Conservancy will highlight mitigation principles and recent policies that are transforming approaches to sustainable development. He will discuss TNC's principles for applying the mitigation hierarchy and focus on…
Webinar announcement, 30 July - Impacts of Biodiversity Offsets on Protected Areas
Biodiversity offsets are increasingly being used by business to compensate for the residual impacts of development and fulfill voluntary, financial or regulatory commitments. The relationship between biodiversity offsets and Protected Areas is an important practical issue. In many countries protected…
ECOLinks Webinar: Innovative Knowledge Systems for Improved Land Management
ECOLinks Webinar on Innovative Knowledge Systems for Improved Land Management
Webinar announcement: The Cross Sector Biodiversity Initiative - Mitigation Hierarchy Guide
Please join us for a webinar presentation: Monday, 18 May at 3:00pm UK (10:00 am EDT) - The Cross Sector Biodiversity Initiative Mitigation Hierarchy Guide
Webinar announcement: Liberia Biodiversity Offset Scheme - Friday 27 March
Sally Johnson, Consultant, and lead author of the report, and Kirsten Hund, Senior Mining Specialist at the World Bank will discuss the advantages and risks for both conservation and economic development of a national biodiversity offsets scheme for Liberia. What…
WCS-ABCG Event: Cross River Gorillas--back from the edge of extinction
This presentation focuses on the partnership between the Wildlife Conservation Society, the North Carolina Zoo and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and describes their collective conservation achievements in Nigeria and Cameroon over the past ten years.
Webinar Announcement: The Ambatovy Project
Please join us for a webinar presentation on Wednesday 26 November at 15:00 UTC (10:00am Washington DC; 3:00pm UK; 6:00pm Antananarivo).
ABCG Event - Technocrats, Financiers and Carbon: A Thorny Alliance with Communities and Conservation?
The upcoming presentation summarizes selected findings from a USAID/FCMC study, conducted in 2013, of four forest carbon projects in three eastern African countries that combine carbon credits with community and biodiversity objectives. The projects exhibit different ecological, governance, social, carbon…
WWF Colombia work on the Pasto-Mocoa road project: BBOP Webinar
Please join us for a webinar presentation - Monday, October 20, 2014, 15:00 UTC.
Setting Appropriate Baselines for Offsets to Avoid Perverse Incentives: BBOP Webinar
Please join us for a webinar on 30 January (10:00 am UTC). Dr. Martine Maron, The University of Queensland, will draw from recent papers she authored ("Calculating the benefit of conservation actions" and "Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context…