Welcome to the BBOP Consultation Process

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) is a partnership of companies, scientists, NGOs, government agencies, research institutes, and financial institutions responding to a growing interest in the use of biodiversity offsets. The partners aim to ensure “no net loss” of biodiversity in the context of development projects through conservation activities that will protect threatened habitat, contribute to national biodiversity strategies and address local communities’ livelihood priorities. The BBOP Secretariat is currently managed jointly by Forest Trends, Conservation International and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

One of the main objectives of BBOP during its first phase is to develop, test and disseminate best practice guidance for designing and implementing biodiversity offsets. The BBOP Secretariat is initiating this on-line consultation to seek your input on the draft principles and biodiversity offsets methodology toolkit we are developing with the BBOP Advisory Committee.  Your feedback and suggestions will help us improve the quality and usefulness of these materials.  The documents listed below will be posted to this site on a staggered basis over the coming weeks and will remain open for review and comment for at least six weeks each.  The entire consultation process will continue until mid-October 2008.  Please point to each document below to see a brief description.  For a diagram illustrating how these documents relate to each other and the planned BBOP outputs click here. To comment on any or all of the documents, click on the “Sign Up” button above.

The Documents