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BBOP Pilot Project Case Study – Ambatovy Project
Contents
Table of contents
About this document 1
1. Executive Summary 6
2. Project Context 11
2.1 Policy context 11
2.2 Regional context 12
2.3 Shareholders involved in offset design 14
3. Project Summary 15
3.1 General project description 15
3.2 Ambatovy offset programme 17
4. How the Ambatovy Project is Applying the BBOP Principles 19
5. Current Status of the Project and Offset 24
5.1 Project chronology and status (as of December 2008) 24
5.2 Offset chronology and status (as of December 2008) 24
6. Business Case for a Biodiversity Offset 26
7. The Offset Design Process 28
7.1 Guidance and methodologies used 28
7.2 Roles and responsibility 28
7.3 The offset design process 29
7.3.1 Step 1: Review project scope and activities 29
7.3.2 Step 2: Review the legal framework and / or policy context for a biodiversity offset 29
7.3.3 Step 3: Initiate a stakeholder participation process 29
7.3.4 Step 4: Determine the need for an offset based on residual adverse effects 29
7.3.5 Step 5: Choose methods to calculate loss / gain and quantify residual losses 35
7.3.6 Step 6: Review potential offset locations and activities and assess the
biodiversity gains which could be achieved at each 46
7.3.7 Step 7: Calculate offset gains and select appropriate offset locations and activities 51
7.3.8 Step 8: Record the offset design and enter the offset implementation process 51
8. Implementation Plan and Long-term Management 53
9. Summary of Offset Process Costs 54