Appendix

Abstract

The screening of offset cases was at the core of the netnographic research approach and evolved over the years. In the scope of the screening 90 possible biodiversity offset cases were gathered to underpin the typology as shown in Appendix 1. This exploratory list of worldwide biodiversity offset cases (which by no means intends to be exhaustive, nearly exhaustive, or representative) was then checked for adequate and simple accessible (online) information quality (using mainly the internet search engines Google and Google scholar). A number of these have been rejected due to poor information quality or other reasons (e.g. project failure/abandonment). The remaining 72 cases are displayed on a world map and described in a table, notably regarding the following aspects: Name/brief description (and impact type), Country/location, Sources and notes, and Information quality. Furthermore, the two core criteria (Influence and initiators; Motivation and ultimate goal) are displayed with their respective values to tick and possibly some short explanation (e.g. government influence, US Wetland Mitigation following Clean Water Act). From the latter, building on the information available, a normative judgment is made to which type the specific case is assigned. One case can be characteristic for one type or represent a combination of two or more types

In addition, Appendix 2 presents an introduction to the Biodiversity Offsets Blog. This is complemented and implemented by a number of blog posts (Appendices 5–10).

Appendix 3 summarizes definitions of Corporate (Social) Responsibility and Appendix 4 provides list of Members of the Advisory Group of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme