Collates practical lessons in Guinea, Uganda, Mozambique and Madagascar based on applying a government roadmap for developing and implementing mitigation policy to achieve No Net loss of biodiversity at the national level.

Outlines essential components that national technical guidelines should contain to support the implementation of No Net Loss/Net Gain mitigation policy, covering the mitigation hierarchy, offset design, implementation, documentation, enforcement, and roles of key actors.

Reviews and compares different biodiversity mapping methods (e.g. Red List of Ecosystem Assessment, Key Biodiversity Area mapping) and tools, outlining their strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases for informing impact assessment and mitigation planning. Includes mini-case studies with mini-case studies on Mozambique, Myanmar, Guinea, Madagascar, Uganda and South Africa.

Provides a structured framework and guidance for selecting, applying, and interpreting biodiversity metrics to measure impacts, losses, and gains in line with No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity objectives.

Explains how countries can use aggregated offsets and conservation banks to strategically cluster biodiversity offset actions in priority landscapes, describing their benefits, challenges, governance, financing, and practical considerations for implementation.

Introduces Target‑based Ecological Compensation as an approach that aligns project‑level mitigation and compensation requirements with national biodiversity targets, ensuring that residual biodiversity losses are offset in a way that directly contributes to achieving jurisdiction‑wide conservation goals.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

This is one of ten technical briefs on key issues relating to the mitigation hierarchy, and No Net Loss/ Net Gain of biodiversity. The briefs explain things such as ‘What is the mitigation hierarchy?’, ‘How can mitigation be aligned with biodiversity goals and targets?’, ‘How to use metrics to quantify biodiversity?’, ‘How to ensure that people as well as biodiversity?’ and the Importance of achieving lasting outcomes from mitigation. The briefs were produced by the COMBO+ Programme in collaboration with the IUCN Technical Group on Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation.

Explains the main models for implementing biodiversity offsets and highlights how governance, financing, roles, and long-term management determine their success.

Synthesises lessons drawn from conservation and offset case studies and pilots in five countries showing that successful biodiversity offset implementation depends on strong governance, clear restoration baselines and metrics, community engagement and involvement, long-term financing, and robust monitoring systems.

Series of technical explainer videos in English on key topics on biodiversity offsetting, including an introduction to offsets, why we offset, what we offset, calculating offset losses and gains, use of multipliers, offset rules, spatially strategic offsets, target-based ecological compensation and M&E.

Série de vidéos explicatives techniques en français sur les principaux sujets relatifs à la compensation de la biodiversité, notamment une introduction aux compensations, pourquoi nous compensons, ce que nous compensons, le calcul des pertes et des gains de compensation, l’utilisation des multiplicateurs, les règles de compensation, les compensations spatialement stratégiques, la compensation écologique basée sur des objectifs et le suivi et l’évaluation.

一系列中文技术讲解视频，内容涵盖生物多样性补偿的关键主题，包括补偿简介、为什么要进行补偿、补偿的内容、补偿损失和收益的计算、乘数的使用、补偿规则、空间战略补偿、基于目标的生态补偿以及监测与评估

Synthesizes lessons from four biodiversity offset pilot projects in Mozambique, showing how rigorous baseline assessments, community engagement, restoration trials, and strong governance frameworks can inform