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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… offset? 9 Offset or mitigate? 9 Offset and the environmental mitigation hierarchy 9 Offset or compensate? 9 … law that can trigger negotiations on offsets 32 4.3.1 Environmental Impact Assessments 32 4.3.2 Planning law 33 … designed to compensate for unavoidable environmental damage. In the US, therefore, it is generally interchangeable …
IUCN Policy on Biodiversity Offsets
… used to circumvent responsibilities to avoid and minimise damage to biodiversity, or to justify projects that would … to achieve No Net Loss. 5. Give priority to avoiding any damage to biodiversity. 6. Take full account of direct, … caused by the project and the gains from the offset causes damage that cannot be remediated and/or puts biodiversity …