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2019 National Biodiversity Offsets Conference

2019 National Biodiversity Offsets Conference

The National Biodiversity Offsets Conference was held in Canberra on 26 - 28 August 2019.

Download the full program

Download the conference statement

Down the full list of questions to the presenters via Sli.do

Speaker Presentations

David Takacs,
University of California Hastings,
College of Law
Biodiversity Offsetting: Making Life Fungible
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Kerry Ten Kate,
Forests Trends Association
Working towards no net loss and a net gain of biodiversity: Some key lessons on law and policy
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David Francis,
Cardno
Mitigation Hierarchy
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Ascelin Gordon,

RMIT

The challenge of no net loss: a framework for evaluating biodiversity offset policies
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Martine Maron,
University Of Queensland
The basics of best practice in biodiversity offsetting, and a new alternative: target-based ecological compensation
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Tor Hundloe AM,
Griffith University

You can have your cake and eat it too
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Christopher Ewing,
CO2 Australia
Australia’s Biodiversity Offset Market - Panacea or Pipe Dream?
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Alan Key,
Earthtrade
Markets for Biodiversity Offsets
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Maria Kwiatkowska,
Biodiversity Conservation Trust
Delivering a strategic biodiversity offsetting service
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Nick Thomas,
Clayton Utz

Offsets as an opportunity - the NSW experience
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John Seidel,
DPIE
Lessons and outcomes from a decade of using biodiversity assessment metrics in NSW
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Scott Whiting,
DBCA (WA)
Planning, Implementing and measuring the effectiveness of a long-term marine offset: The Northwest Shelf Flatback Turtle Conservation Program.
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Travis Peake,
Umwelt Australia
A Consultant’s Perspective on Biodiversity Offsets
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Adam Schutz,
DoE (SA)
A brief history of offsetting in South Australia
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Renee Rossini, Queensland Trust for
Nature
Offsets with outcomes
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Kate Auty,
Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment Offsets and Strategic Assessment Audits
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Chris McCombe,
Minerals Council of Australia
Biodiversity Offsets - Mineral Industry Perspectives
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Gareth Rees,
Inland Rail ARTC
Infrastructure and Offsets: Obligations, outcomes and opportunities
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Carole Rayner,
DES
Queensland's environmental offsets framework and review
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Day 2 Workshop Presentation facilitated by Garry Middle View presentation →