Achieving No Net Loss or Net Gain of Biodiversity: Good Practice Guide

This comprehensive guide from the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) can help you to better protect and restore nature in extractive contexts. It provides a seven-step process for designing and operationalising strategies to achieve and maintain no net loss of biodiversity at mining operations and paves the way for firms to target biodiversity net gain. The process steps include establishing areas of analysis; establishing a biodiversity baseline; selecting site-level biodiversity metrics; applying appropriate mitigation measures and assessing their impacts on biodiversity; assessing and offsetting residual impacts on biodiversity; monitoring and applying adaptive management; and transparently disclosing progress. The guide includes technical guidance for each step, as well as real-world examples of effective nature conservation and restoration strategies and projects.

Although written with the mining and metals sector in mind, many of the processes and other content will be applicable to other sectors.