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Advancing mitigation and offset policy to conserve biodiversity: taking stock and looking ahead post-2020

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The challenges and complexities around 'No Net Loss' of biodiversity will be distilled, and options for reconciling conservation goals with compensation will be presented and discussed with experienced practioners from industry, financial institutions, governments and NGOs.
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Industry and infrastructure development often conflicts with biodiversity conservation, but approaches for counterbalancing residual biodiversity losses from development are increasingly mainstream. The most prominent of these is biodiversity offsetting, which aims to achieve No Net Loss of biodiversity. The presentations and interactive discussions in this Thematic Stream Session will examine how compensatory actions can be harnessed to deliver more desirable and transparent outcomes for biodiversity and stakeholders. A crucial element of this is providing more clarity and certainty to investors, practitioners, lenders, governments and society. In this session, the challenges and complexities around No Net Loss will be distilled, and options for reconciling conservation goals with compensation will be presented.

Session agenda

Speaker

Dr Fabien QUÉTIER

Senior consultant,
Biotope
France


09:00 - 10:30

Mr Stephen EDWARDS

Senior Programme Manager,
IUCN
Switzerland

Welcoming words presenting the IUCN policy on offsets and the GIBOP platform
09:00 - 09:05

Mr Raymond VICTURINE

Director Conservation Finance,
United States of America

Introduction to the mitigation hierarchy and policy development aimed at mainstreaming biodiversity in development decisions with lessons learned from BBOP and COMBO
09:05 - 09:15

Prof. Martine MARON

Professor of Environmental Management,
The University of Queensland
Australia

Moving from biodiversity offsets to target-based ecological compensation
09:15 - 09:25

Panelist

Mrs Denise NICOLAU

Biodiversity Offsets Program Coordinator,
BIOFUND
Mozambique


09:30 - 10:00

Mariana SARMIENTO

CEO,
Terrasos
Colombia


09:30 - 10:00

Mr Mathieu SOUQUET

Directeur Outre Mer et Madagascar,
Biotope
Reunion


09:30 - 10:00

Mr Yannick AUTRET

Expert recherche transport, énergie et environnement,
Ministère de la transition écologique
France


09:30 - 10:00

Mr Conrad SAVY

Biodiversity Lead: Africa & Middle East,
International Finance Corporation
Kenya


10:00 - 10:30

Dr Genevieve CAMPBELL

Senior Associate,
Re:wild
Canada


10:00 - 10:30

Ms Naïg COZANNET

Senior task manager - Mainstreaming Biodiversity ,
AFD - French Aid Agency
France


10:00 - 10:30

  • Fondation d'Entreprise Biotope pour la Biodiversité [France]
  • Wildlife Conservation Society [United States of America]
  • IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management (CEM)
  • IUCN Business and Biodiversity Programme
  • Agence Française de Développement, Biofund, International Finance Corporation, Terrasos, TotalEnergies
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