The biodiversity bank cannot be a lending bank

摘要: "Offsetting" habitat destruction has widespread appeal as an instrument for balancing economic growth with biodiversity conservation. Requiring proponents to pay the nontrivial costs of loss encourages sensitive planning approaches. Offsetting, biobanking, and biodiverse carbon sequestration schemes will play important role in conserving under increasing human pressures. However, untenable assumptions existing are undermining their benefits. Policies that allow be offset by protection guaranteed result further biodiversity. Similarly, trading immediate restoration projects promise future will, at best, time lags availability increases extinction risks, or worst, fail achieve all. We detail concerns about approaches describe how offsetting policies can improved provide genuine benefits Due uncertainties way which restored vegetation matures, we propose bank should a savings bank. Accrued values demonstrated before they used losses. recommendations this could achieved practice.