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Biodiversity offsetting: making nature economically visible

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Policy_Team

Biodiversity offsetting is a method intended to help compensate for the detrimental impacts of development on biodiversity. Such an approach is designed to work by creating a credit based market that developers could use to offset actions deemed harmful to … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Biodiversity offsetting, Conservation, Defra, Government, Parliament, Science Policy, UK | Tagged Biodiversity, Biodiversity offsetting, Defra, Defra consultation, Government, parliament, UK, white paper | 1 Comment

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