Sea Seminar: BOOST

Dr. Panu Halme

In this Sea Seminar, Dr. Panu Halme will present insights from the project BOOST – Biodiversity Offsetting as an Operational Tool for a Just Sustainability Transition Towards No Net Loss of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Halme is Research Professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Consortium Lead of 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. The BOOST project facilitates the mainstreaming and enabling of a just transition toward the adoption of biodiversity offsets in Finland and globally.

Biodiversity offsetting (ecological compensations) refers to compensating for biodiversity losses caused by ecologically harmful human activities by generating biodiversity gains elsewhere through concrete actions in nature. BOOST’s more specific tasks include developing a national offset register, biodiversity accounting, and a comprehensive, functional offsetting system.

More information on the talk will be updated here closer to the event.

The Sea Seminar series is a collaboration between the ÅAU profiling area The Sea and SOS. The seminars are organized once a month with a hybrid setup (click here for online participation), and they are open to everyone interested in marine and sustainability issues.