D: Pros and cons of biodiversity offsetting by SNS padlets https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of biodiversity offsetting. en-us 2020-05-12 05:51:25 UTC 2026-01-18 09:47:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Pros https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569448081 2020-05-13 08:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569448081 Realizing that you're taking space away from nature https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569449592 2020-05-13 08:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569449592 Cons https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569449688 2020-05-13 08:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569449688 Companies forced to protect nature https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569450028 2020-05-13 08:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569450028 Possibly the best option in case of increasing population growth and larger cities https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569450617 2020-05-13 08:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569450617 Nature becomes a commodity (Neoliberal approach) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569451482 2020-05-13 08:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569451482 Nature is only reconstructed (planting nature) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569451896 2020-05-13 08:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569451896 Justification for the good conscience https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569452386 2020-05-13 08:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569452386 Access to nature becomes class dependent (more nature for the rich) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569452790 2020-05-13 08:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569452790 Certain people are excluded from the decision https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569453703 2020-05-13 08:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569453703 Difficult to decide how much value a nature has. How much must be replaced for a road, a house etc. https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569454071 2020-05-13 08:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569454071 Certain habitats are seen as a proxy for the whole biodiversity. https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569454543 2020-05-13 08:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569454543 bureaucratic acceleration, advantage for companies https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569455627 2020-05-13 08:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569455627 greenwashing https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569458842 2020-05-13 08:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569458842 Resources are under the protection of local resources (lizard) - A lot of effort for little biodiversity. If effort is relocalized, more protection could be achieved https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569462830 2020-05-13 08:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569462830 Positive as long as it happens locally https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569465396 2020-05-13 08:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569465396 With conditions regarding in which ecosystems it should happen, it could work https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569469558 2020-05-13 08:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569469558 Not compensate biodiversity, but preserving biodiversity https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569473752 2020-05-13 08:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569473752 Possibility to achieve better goals in other places (instead of getting a small park in Zurich achieve protection from pesticides on agricultural land) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569477629 2020-05-13 08:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569477629 Promoting biodiversity in a place where biodiversity is already high https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569479837 2020-05-13 08:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569479837 Requirements that biodiversity must actually be increased https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569480830 2020-05-13 08:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569480830 Not compensating in terms of area but rehabilitating areas https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569482431 2020-05-13 08:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569482431 on what scale is biodiversity offsetting provided (within country, global) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569487983 2020-05-13 08:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569487983 Nature is only compensated in the global south (green grabbing) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569493120 2020-05-13 08:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569493120 Biodiversity is something local https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569509895 2020-05-13 09:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569509895 Globally, high-quality biodiversity could be protected (overall ecosystem good) https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569511467 2020-05-13 09:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/backhaus2/sxq335nx4i6htaew/wish/569511467