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Biodiversity offsetting makes dreams come true. It is the license that can make bad developers’ dreams a reality.

Across the world offsets already justify the destruction of irreplaceable ecosystems to make way for mining projects, motorways, pipelines …

Europe is the new frontier for biodiversity buying levitra online reviews offsets.The European Union is considering new legislation that permits biodiversity offsets.

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Background information

Last year more then 140 organisations signed on to the ‘No to biodiversity offsets declaration’. Read all about it here

• Critical literature review of biodiversity offsets:
• What is biodiversity and why is it important?
• What is biodiversity offsetting and why is it problematic?
• Biodiversity offsetting in practice:
• Case studies of biodiversity offsets in the UK
• Nature is not for Sale event in London: presentations
• Presentation about trading ecosystems
  Submission to UK consultation on biodiversity offsetting
• A Tree for a Fish: Understanding the (il)logic behind biodiversity offsets
• Like Oil and Water: Struggles Against the Brazilian Green Economy
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• Protecting carbon to destroy forests: Land enclosures and REDD+

‘Biodiversity offsetting, making dreams come true’ is a film by the following organisations:

• Counter Balance
• Fern
• Re:Common
• Carbon Trade Watch
• WDM