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Biodiversity Offsets in BC: Provincial Policy Success and Challenges
1. Biodiversity Offsets in BC: Provincial
Policy Success and Challenges
Environmental Mitigation Policy
- Drivers and intent
General Principles: Offsets
Trial Application
- Success
- Challenges
Moving Forward
Jennifer Psyllakis
BC Ministry of Environment
2. Environmental Mitigation Policy: Drivers
Lack of consistent standards leading to variation
in the way environmental impacts are addressed
Greater interest in, and lack of awareness of,
financial & other tools to support environmental
mitigation
Need for greater consistency and
transparency for mitigation planning
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3. Environmental Mitigation Policy: Intent
Policy and Procedures to ensure consistent approach
to the application of mitigation.
Fits within existing legislative framework
& supports existing processes.
Voluntary application
Decision-support tool
Avoid
Minimize
Restore On-Site
Offset
4. General Principles: Offsets
Offsets deliver tangible, measurable, on-the-ground
outcomes.
Outcomes are additional to what otherwise would be
achieved through existing natural resource management
programs or activities.
Amount of offsetting increases in accordance with the
degree of uncertainty of the effectiveness of the offset
measure(s), the risk to the environmental component or
both.
Offsetting measures will be designed to obtain the best
result for environmental component in the shortest
timeframe practicable, considering the effort and resources
expended.
5. General Principles: Offsets
Offsetting funds will include the full costs of
implementation for the duration of the offset.
Offsetting measures will be designed to obtain the
best result for environmental component in the
shortest timeframe practicable, considering the
effort and resources expended.
Offsets need to be legally secured for the duration of
the offset commitment.
All offsetting-related costs are the responsibility of
the proponent whose project or activity results in the
adverse impact.
6. Trial Application: Successes
Greater transparency
– Decision points (and gaps) clearly articulated
– Mitigation, including offsets, directly linked to
impacts
– Clarified approaches to offsetting
– Improved staff/proponent understanding,
particularly for agreement on financial offsets
– Overall approach to mitigation rationalized
7. Trial Application: Successes
Consistency
– Mitigation plan template
– Impact assessment workbook
Accountability
– Specific commitments to outcomes
– Clarified responsibilities for implementing
Resolved decision barriers – e.g., tool to support
accommodation of FN treaty rights
8. Trial Application: Challenges
Legal authority to conduct mitigation measures off
permitted areas.
Financial Agreements.
Clarifying additionality.
Lack of strategies and objectives.
Ensuring mitigation measures stay in place.
Definition of offset / ensuring links to intended
outcomes
9. Moving Forward
Focus on challenges
Continued engagement with stakeholders and First
Nations
Training and extension
Strategic approaches
Governance frameworks
Partnerships