Rapidly growing demand for new and upgraded infrastructure – which will drive an estimated $90 trillion in investments between 2015 and 2030 – has the potential to drive unprecedented habitat loss and fragmentation worldwide. Traditional conservation strategies, such as protected areas where development activities are not permitted, are struggling to keep pace with threats from this growth. The State of Biodiversity Mitigation 2017 provides a global benchmark of innovative policy frameworks and market mechanisms using offsets and compensation that require developers from the outset to avoid, minimize, and rehabilitate these effects, and then offset or compensate for any remaining negative impacts. It shows how smart mitigation policies can leverage new financial resources and momentum in pursuit of “no net loss” and preferably “net gain” of biodiversity.
State of biodiversity mitigation 2017: Markets and compensation for global infrastructure development.
Year: 2017
