Keynote speaker Brendan Sydes, National Biodiversity Policy Lead, Australian Conservation Foundation zoomed into the conference from another location and we experienced technical difficulties recording the presentation so please view the slides below for an overview of what was discussed.
Brendan’s presentation was titled “Nature conservation vs Biodiversity – Offsetting and Nature Repair: is the new wave of nature monetisation saving or sacrificing threatened species and ecosystems?” and covered:
- What is biodiversity offsetting and what is it intended to achieve?
- The question we want to address: is offsetting (and current directions) saving or sacrificing threatened species and ecosystems?
- Cataloguing the problems with biodiversity offsets
- Solutions are just around the corner – but are they really?
- Solutions might actually make things worse!
- What to do – pragmatism versus defeatism
You can view the playlist from the conference here
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