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A broad and intensive discussion has been ongoing within the EU and at the level of its Member States on how to achieve no net loss of biodiversity by the year 2020. This European discussion is embedded in a wider and at times controversial global debate on whether and how to implement new tools such as biodiversity offsets for managing impacts on biodiversity from economic developments beyond the already existing requirements of Natura 2000 conservation and offsetting (ten Kate et al. 2004; Gordon et al. 2011, 2015; The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme/BBOP 2012a; Gardner et al. 2013; Quétier et al. 2014; Maron 2015; Maron et al. 2015a; Vaissière and Levrel 2015; Darbi in preparation).
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Wende, W., Bezombes, L., Reinert, ME. (2018). Introduction of a European Strategy on No Net Loss of Biodiversity. In: Wende, W., Tucker, G ., Quétier, F., Rayment, M., Darbi, M. (eds) Biodiversity Offsets. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72581-9_2
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