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DOI	10.1007/s13280-024-01994-w
	Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise's Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity
	Conti, Ludovico Giacomo; Seele, Peter
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0044-7447
EISSN	1654-7209
起始页码	53
结束页码	5
卷号	53 期号:5
英文摘要	The climate crisis and the alarming loss of biodiversity require urgent action. One of the most popular tools to tackle these crises is offsetting, an accounting logic through which environmental damages can be compensated elsewhere with environmental benefits. Developed to help address the climate crisis, the carbon offsetting logic has also been transposed to address biodiversity loss. Biodiversity offsets permit the compensation of residual environmental damages through equivalent gains undertaken elsewhere. This article identifies three arguments that show why such a transposition is problematic. To explain the fundamental problem with biodiversity offsetting, the famous Lessing's Nathan the Wise Ring Parable (Ringparabel) is proposed as an allegoric interpretation of the biodiversity offsetting logic, stressing that unique entities lose their uniqueness and power once people try to replicate them.
英文关键词	Biodiversity; Biodiversity crisis; Carbon; Climate change; Offsetting; Ring Parable
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001169427700002
来源期刊	AMBIO
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/291260
作者单位	Universita della Svizzera Italiana
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Conti, Ludovico Giacomo,Seele, Peter. Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise's Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity[J],2024,53(5).
APA	Conti, Ludovico Giacomo,&Seele, Peter.(2024).Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise's Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity.AMBIO,53(5).
MLA	Conti, Ludovico Giacomo,et al."Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise's Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity".AMBIO 53.5(2024).