The draft Biodiversity Offset Guideline was published by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, in the Government Gazette 46088 (Notice No. 1924) on 25 March 2022 in terms of Section 24J of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998). ...
Biodiversity offsets are measurable conservation outcomes designed to compensate for adverse and unavoidable impacts of projects, in addition to prevention and mitigation measures already implemented.; Biodiversity offsets are only appropriate for projects which have rigorously applied the mitigation hierarchy framework, a widely accepted approach for biodiversity conservation.
National Biodiversity Offset Guideline published for implementation South Africa’s first National Biodiversity Offset Guideline has been published for implementation. The Guideline was published in Government Gazette 48841 (Notice No. 3569) by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, on 23 June 2023 in terms of the National Environmental Management Act.
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The purpose of this policy is to provide a framework to guide the design, implementation and governance of biodiversity offset schemes and projects. The policy provides guidance as to where offsets are, and are not, an appropriate conservation tool to ensure that, when offset schemes are used, they lead to positive conservation outcomes compared to business as usual and, thus, minimize the ...
At a glance. On 23 June 2023 the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment published the National Biodiversity Offset Guideline. The purpose of the Guideline is to indicate when biodiversity offsets are likely to be accepted as mitigation by a competent authority, to establish basic principles for biodiversity offsetting and to guide offset practices within the context of ...
The guideline was published in Government Gazette 48841 (Notice No. 3569) by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, on 23 June 2023 in terms of the National Environmental Management Act. A copy of the Guideline document is availalbe here National Biodiversity Offset Guideline
The guideline will serve as a means to minimise and offset biodiversity loss as a result of the negative impacts of unsustainable development on the country’s natural environment. “Biodiversity offsetting is only required if there is still a significant residual biodiversity impact after all other efforts have been made to avoid and ...
The draft Guideline’s Introduction provides as follows: The purpose of this guideline is to indicate when biodiversity offsets are likely to be required as mitigation by any competent authority (CA), to lay down basic principles for biodiversity offsetting and to guide offset practice in the environmental authorisation (EA) application context.
The publication of South Africa's National Biodiversity Offset Guideline marks a crucial milestone in the country's efforts to address the decline and degradation of its biodiversity. By setting forth fundamental principles for offsetting biodiversity, the Guideline aims to minimise and counterbalance the negative impacts of unsustainable ...
Biodiversity offsets and related compensatory approaches. It called on the Director General to establish a working group comprising experts from the Secretariat, Members and Commissions and others as required, to develop an IUCN policy on biodiversity offsets through a consultative ... guidelines. 10.1 Measuring and Exchanging Biodiversity .
A Biodiversity Offset Implementation Agreement must, as a minimum, contain the following clauses: •Descriptions of the parties to the Biodiversity Offset Implementation Agreement. •The required outcomes of the biodiversity offset which need to be achieved (as specified in the EA condition).
What are Biodiversity Offsets? 3 1 What are Biodiversity Offsets? Definition “Biodiversity offsets are measurable conserva-tion outcomes resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development and persisting after appropri-ate avoidance, minimization, and restoration
The National Biodiversity Offset Guideline (BOG) has been published. It specifically applies to applications for environmental authorisations but can be used by authorities making other decisions that may involve biodiversity offsetting. On 23 June 2023, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment published the BOG for implementation.
South Africa’s first National Biodiversity Offset Guideline has been published for implementation and will serve as a means to minimise and offset biodiversity loss as a result of the negative ...
Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration are crucial for maintaining the health of Earth’s life systems and promoting sustainable development (Fu et al., 2023; UNEP, 2021).In 2022, the 15th Conference of the Parties on Biological Diversity (COP15) adopted the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which aims to restore at least 30% of the degraded terrestrial ...
This approach involves quantifying and converting differences in biodiversity characteristics between impacted and offset sites into biodiversity credits that can be traded or regulated in markets (Table 1). Currently, these credits represent the only means for investors and banks to monetize offsets, though the practice has been shown to be ...
The National Biodiversity Offset Guideline has been published. It specifically applies to applications for environmental authorisations but can be used by authorities making other decisions that may involve biodiversity offsetting. On 23 June 2023, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment published the National Biodiversity Offset Guideline (BOG) for implementation.
