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DOI	10.1038/s41893-022-00850-7
	On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar's biggest mine
	Devenish, Katie; Desbureaux, Sebastien; Willcock, Simon; Jones, Julia P. G.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	498
结束页码	508
卷号	5 期号:6 页码:11
英文摘要	Despite the growing use of biodiversity offsets from major industrial projects, little is known about how effective they are. This study shows that the offsets associated with the Ambatovy mine in Madagascar trying to compensate for deforestation at the mine site are on track to achieve no net loss of forest. Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major industrial developments to offset unavoidable biodiversity loss but there are few robust evaluations of whether offset interventions ensure no net loss of biodiversity. We focus on the biodiversity offsets associated with the high-profile Ambatovy mine in Madagascar and evaluate their effectiveness at delivering no net loss of forest. As part of their efforts to mitigate biodiversity loss, Ambatovy compensate for forest clearance at the mine site by slowing deforestation driven by small-scale agriculture elsewhere. Using a range of methods, including extensive robustness checks exploring 116 alternative model specifications, we show that the offsets are on track to avert as much deforestation as was caused by the mine. This encouraging result shows that biodiversity offsetting can contribute towards mitigating environmental damage from a major industrial development, even within a weak state, but there remain important caveats with broad application. Our approach could serve as a template to facilitate other evaluations and so build a stronger evidence-base of the effectiveness of no net loss interventions.
学科领域	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000764083700001
来源期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272706
作者单位	Bangor University; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); INRAE; Institut Agro; Montpellier SupAgro; Universite de Montpellier; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC); Rothamsted Research
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Devenish, Katie,Desbureaux, Sebastien,Willcock, Simon,et al. On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar's biggest mine[J],2022,5(6):11.
APA	Devenish, Katie,Desbureaux, Sebastien,Willcock, Simon,&Jones, Julia P. G..(2022).On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar's biggest mine.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,5(6),11.
MLA	Devenish, Katie,et al."On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar's biggest mine".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 5.6(2022):11.