BOOST

There is unequivocal scientific consensus regarding the ongoing environmental crisis and strong global political ambition to halt biodiversity loss. Still, we are systematically failing at national-level implementation: globally, none of the Aichi biodiversity targets designed to stop biodiversity loss by 2020 were met. In BOOST - Biodiversity Offsetting as an Operational Tool for a Just Sustainability Transition Towards No Net Loss of Ecosystems and Biodiversity - we facilitate the mainstreaming and enabling of a just transition toward the adoption of biodiversity offsets in Finland and globally... Biodiversity offsetting means compensating for biodiversity losses caused by ecologically harmful human activities by generating biodiversity gains elsewhere through concrete actions in nature. More specifically, our tasks include, developing a national offset register, biodiversity accounting, and a comprehensive, functional offsetting system.