Businesses, governments, and financial institutions are increasingly adopting a policy of no
net loss of biodiversity for development activities. The goal of no net loss is intended to help …

French regulations concerning the mitigation of development impacts have been
progressively strengthened with offsets now required for impacts on forests, wetlands, and …

Habitat loss through development is one of the major causes of biodiversity loss. The
increasingly common legal requirement to first avoid, then reduce and, if necessary, offset …

Over the last decade research exploring green infrastructure planning has burgeoned.
Transferable green infrastructure messages between locations though are less well …

The attribution of economic value to landscape resources is fraught with technical and
methodological difficulties. Little is mandated in UK planning policy explaining how …

Highlights•Biodiversity offsets are a compensation tool that uses a common metric.•We
reviewed the scientific literature on biodiversity offsetting.•Most common challenges are …

Biodiversity offsets are commonly used to compensate for environmental impacts, but their
effectiveness is often questioned. Estimations of expected losses and gains often rely on …

Within the framework of the mitigation hierarchy, biodiversity offsetting is the main tool
promoted to reach No Net Loss. One of the determining factors of offsetting success is the …

Continued urban development is a major cause of the loss of biodiversity. In this context, the
objective of a No Net Loss (NNL) of biodiversity has been adopted in many countries …

The commonly expressed goal of biodiversity offsets is to achieve no net loss of specific
biological features affected by development. However, strict equivalency requirements may …