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== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[Biodiversity credit]]
* [[Environmental concerns]]
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* [[Environmental Impact Assessment]]  (EIA)
* [[Environmental Impact Assessment]]  (EIA)
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Latest revision as of 18:41, 17 June 2022

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