🔍 Not all climate solutions are what they seem.

In our "Pulling Back the Curtain" webinar series, campaigners unpack some of the most common false solutions — from #CarbonOffsets and #CCS to #Geoengineering and #BiodiversityOffsets — and explain why they risk delaying real climate action.

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#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy

There's also a wealth of valuable insights in the NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the 'Integrity of the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme' (behold the vast gulf between stated design, intent & operations, and what actually happens in practice!)

With Lisa Cox's years of detailed investigations & reporting, there's ZERO excuse to NOT KNOW the many & varied failures of NSW's biodiversity offset scheme

Choosing to repeat these mistakes is contempt of public interest biodiversity policy

#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets #PayToDestroy

#EPBC #BiodiversityOffsets 🧵

First thing to note is that biodiversity offsets do NOT address historic losses (i.e they won't help catch up on or make good already incurred habitat & biodiversity losses) 1/

"Koala offsets" #BiodiversityOffsets #NatureMarkets #NatureAsAnAssetClass

☢️☢️ don’t even know where to begin with this - #BiodiversityOffsets, landscape restoration & low carbon as #Greenwashing for govt & nuclear industry. Not to mention the ballooning costs to be met by taxpayers not EDF. That’s impressive profit maximisation alright. ☠️☠️

INTERVIEW: Paper outlines biodiversity offsets ‘taxonomy of failure’ « Carbon Pulse

Compounding evidence outlining ‘taxonomy of failures’ and ‘critical challenges’ with #BiodiversityOffsets

Must focus on #EcologicalRestoration and sustainable #conservation strategies - new paper 🌍

carbon-pulse.com/403689/

Gee, I thought the European "Biodiversity Startup Ecosystem" was bad...the voluntary biodiversity market is exploding! (at least in terms of institutional proliferation)

#BiodiversityCredits #BiodiversityOffsets #NatureFinance #NatureAsAnAssetClass

Biodiversity offsets, their effectiveness and their role in a nature positive future Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Biodiversity offsets, applied as part of the mitigation hierarchy, aim to ensure that ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity occurs as a result of human development...

New paper alert!

How do biodiversity offsets, nature positive, and biodiversity credits fit together? @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social

Open access (non-downloadable): rdcu.be/ebGtr
Paywalled (downloadable): lnkd.in/ghv6zSRp
#BiodiversityOffsets #NaturePositive

The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting Nature Sustainability - Biodiversity offsetting policies are increasing in number and variety around the world, but the process of moving from conceiving offsettings to implementing them is not...

Pleased to share a Review of biodiversity offsetting politics rdcu.be/eauzc
@icta-uab.bsky.social with Stephanie Barral and Ritwick Ghosh #offsets #biodiversity #biodiversityoffsets

Koala credits: investors put price tags on biodiversity Former investment banker Frederic Hache is sounding the alarm bells: the growing popularity of using biodiversity credits to offset environmental damage risks putting profits before protecting nature,...

I'm so glad @greenfinanceobs.bsky.social quit investment banking & is using his expertise to expose false solutions & scams in financialisation of nature

#BiodiversityMarkets #BiodiversityOffsets #BiodiversityCredits

Good read from Ties Gijzel @followthemoney.bsky.social

Biodiversity offsets could be locking in species decline In a recent interview, the Opposition environment spokesperson Greg Hunt promised to reverse biodiversity decline in five years if the Coalition wins the forthcoming election. Is this goal achievable…

Not sure why people are shocked by this.
#BiodiversityOffsets do not work. Full stop.
https://t.co/why4AU1a6H

https://t.co/DEFEvuTURy

Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonization AbstractAims. Australia is among one of the world’s wealthiest nations; yet, its relatively small human population (22.5 million) has been responsible for

Can we just fucking stop cutting down trees in this country? We need MORE forest, not less (and no, #biodiversityoffsets aren't a solution). #StateOfTheEnvironment report, anyone? #LittleLeftToLose https://t.co/q3eq16uUoq

Like bashing my face against a wall for 20+ years, FFS https://t.co/LsPMa

Another reason why #biodiversityoffsets are mostly bad: even after 90 years following agricultural abandonment of grasslands & savannas, plant diversity & productivity recovered by only 73% and 53%, respectively https://rdcu.be/bVJIX

Do #biodiversityoffsets work? Not really — The ecological outcomes of biodiversity offsets under “no net loss” policies: A global review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12...

#biodiversityoffsets explained perfectly by @firstdogonmoon conservationbytes.com/2018/11/05/biodiversity-... (full cartoon here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/1...

Fifteen operationally important decisions in the planning of #biodiversityoffsets www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000...

ConservationBytes.com Conservation research ... with bite

The wonderful world of '#offsets'. New #Cartoon of the Week on http://ConservationBytes.com #conbytes #carbonoffsets #biodiversityoffsets #1daytokill1000yearstorestore

David Hill deputy chair of Natural England says he doesn't talk about #biodiversityoffsets anymore because it has become toxic. #WEETFEvents