The report presents lessons and ideas exchanged during the conference as well as major themes and cross-cutting issues
The "To No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Beyond" conference was held under the EU's 'No Net Loss Initiative', an initiative in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020.
Co-hosted by Forest Trends, the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP), the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the conference aimed to:
- catalyze agreement on practical ways to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services
- exchange ideas and experiences; provide advice on the design of implementation measures
- build capacity on technical and policy issues.
Major themes that emerged during the conference include the need for:
- mitigation policy frameworks that strengthen biodiversity protection
- clear and unambiguous policy requirements that establish high standards
- discussions of biodiversity offsets in the broader mitigation context rather than as an isolated issue
- high standards for applying the mitigation hierarchy
- landscape-level planning
- capacity building and training
- sharing of examples of best practice
- monitoring, verification and enforcement
- international and multi-stakeholder dialogue.