As they say: compensation for damage to nature today we will understand what means of compensation are. This is the name for the means by which a company must compensate for the natural damage from its project if it cannot be avoided. This can include planting trees to replace those cut down for construction, releasing fry into water bodies or reforestation. According to the law, the compensation is of a secondary nature: the main thing is to prevent and minimize damages, and the compensation is only for the damage that could not be prevented. But the catch is that compensation often becomes the price paid for enabling a deliberately destructive project. At the same time, the company itself usually does not carry out compensation measures, but attracts specialized organizations for a fee - and the responsibility is eroded. And most importantly, nature is irreplaceable: a forest where a rare species lives, or a swamp that feeds a river, cannot be replaced by planting saplings elsewhere. These are different ecosystems. The same logic applies at the international level, only it is called differently: "offsets". In the UN conferences of the parties on the topic of biological diversity, the issues of financing and compensation for damage to nature are among the central ones. In 2012, the World Bank made biodiversity offsetting mandatory when financing destructive activities in critical habitats. In fact, compensation plans allow you to exceed the statutory limits of destruction in a certain place with the promise of compensation elsewhere. Compensation measures create an illusion that damage can be balanced. But civil society warns: while the destruction of nature continues, the compensation measures only justify further damage. Ecological Crisis Group Report pressure.

As they say: compensation for damage to nature today we will understand what means of compensation are. This is the name for the means by which a company must compensate for the natural damage from its project if it cannot be avoided. This can include planting trees to replace those cut down for construction, releasing fry into water bodies or reforestation. According to the law, the compensation is of a secondary nature: the main thing is to prevent and minimize damages, and the compensation is only for the damage that could not be prevented. But the catch is that compensation often becomes the price paid for enabling a deliberately destructive project. At the same time, the company itself usually does not carry out compensation measures, but attracts specialized organizations for a fee - and the responsibility is eroded. And most importantly, nature is irreplaceable: a forest where a rare species lives, or a swamp that feeds a river, cannot be replaced by planting saplings elsewhere. These are different ecosystems. The same logic applies at the international level, only it is called differently: "offsets". In the UN conferences of the parties on the topic of biological diversity, the issues of financing and compensation for damage to nature are among the central ones. In 2012, the World Bank made biodiversity offsetting mandatory when financing destructive activities in critical habitats. In fact, compensation plans allow you to exceed the statutory limits of destruction in a certain place with the promise of compensation elsewhere. Compensation measures create an illusion that damage can be balanced. But civil society warns: while the destruction of nature continues, the compensation measures only justify further damage. Ecological Crisis Group Report pressure.