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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… 9 Offset or mitigate? 9 Offset and the environmental mitigation hierarchy 9 Offset or compensate? 9 Onsite or … 4.1 Policy context 21 4.2 Law requiring offsets 22 4.2.1 Wetland Banking in the US under the Clean Water Act 22 4.2.2 … compensatory conservation activities 22 Box 6: Growth of wetland mitigation banking in the USA 23 Box 7: The Inland …
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IUCN Policy on Biodiversity Offsets

… the importance of rigorously applying all the steps of the mitigation hierarchy, starting with avoidance as priority and … of the legal framework of several countries, including wetland and conservation banking in the USA and habitat … remedy or as a last option ‘offset’ adverse impacts on wetland ecosystems, including considering the potential …
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