Environmental Audit Committee - Sixth Report
Biodiversity Offsetting

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 November 2013.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Background

2 Measuring and assessing offsets

The metric

Offsetting assessments

3 Locating offsets

4 Justification and timing

Mitigation hierarchy

An offset market

The justification and timing of the offsetting proposals

Conclusions

Recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

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Prepared 12 November 2013