Biodiversity offsetting

Sustainability - environmental concerns - biodiversity.

Biodiversity offsets are actions undertaken by developers to produce improvements - or gains - in biodiversity.

These improvements - or gains - can be offset against the expected negative impacts of the proposed development on biodiversity.

Biodiversity offsetting would generally be a final measure, having first taken steps to mitigate and minimise the direct negative impacts.

The normal overall objective would be no net loss of biodiversity, or a net gain in biodiversity.

See also

• Biodiversity
• Biodiversity credit
• Environmental concerns
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
• Impact
• Impact assessment
• Sustainability