Policy development for environmental licensing and biodiversity offsets in Latin America.

ABSTRACT: Attempts to meet biodiversity goals through application of the mitigation hierarchy have gained wide traction globally with increased development of public policy, lending standards, and corporate practices. With interest in biodiversity offsets increasing in Latin America, we seek to strengthen the basis for policy development through a review of major environmental licensing policy frameworks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Here we focused our review on an examination of national level policies to evaluate to which degree current provisions promote positive environmental outcomes. All the surveyed countries have national-level Environmental Impact Assessment laws or regulations that cover the habitats present in their territories. Although most countrie

SUBMITTER: Villarroya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4156437 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature