Business, biodiversity, and innovation in Brazil

Aguiar, Anna Carolina Fornero; Scarano, Fábio Rúbio; Bozelli, Reinaldo Luiz; Branco, P D; Ceotto, Paula; Farjalla, Vinicius F.; Loyola, Rafael; Silva, José Maria Cardoso da

doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2022.12.002

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“…Sentiment scores from articles showed that many Central and South American and African countries had a more positive attitude toward the emerging offset market based on economic opportunities and chance for resource use while conserving biodiversity (Aguiar et al., 2023). For example, Colombia was a regularly covered country, representing numerous other Latin American countries, with a fast‐evolving offset system and the aim of embracing biodiversity credits (Saenz et al., 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scientific studies should aim to incorporate these more recent systems and frameworks in future assessments and reports to capture advances and improvements that, in turn, could be incorporated in established systems as part of an adaptive management and learning process (Brownlie et al, 2017;Gelcich et al, 2017;Hu, 2022;Souza et al, 2023). There is an awareness of the failures of well-known and longstanding offsetting systems but not of the potential success of newly emerging systems (Aguiar et al, 2023;Lehtiniemi et al, 2023;Marshall et al, 2022).…”

Section: Regional Context Of Offsettingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sentiment and attitudes toward offsetting and the biodiversity market in online media articles

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2024

Conservation Biology

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Biodiversity offsetting, a conservation approach to offset loss of habitat and ecosystem services, has been widely accepted and implemented in different legislative frameworks around the globe. I assigned sentiment scores (from −3 [very negative] to +3 [very positive]) to online news articles to examine public sentiment toward offsetting. I identified 86 pertinent articles published from 2013 to 2023 by web scraping online media outlets through keywords. I examined article content based on topics commonly associated in scientific literature with offsetting, such as risks or financial aspects. Most articles were from Australia (44%), 16% were from the United Kingdom, and 5% were from Colombia and Madagascar. Three distinct groups covered finances (n = 47), species, and social impacts of offsetting (n = 23) and offsetting frameworks (n = 16). Articles covering monetary and finance aspects had a lower predicted sentiment score (−0.72, 95% CI −0.98 to −0.47) than articles that covered new, alternative offsetting forms (−0.15, 95% CI −0.46 to 0.17), such as mitigation banking and credits. In articles focused on charismatic species and loss of livelihood, offsetting risk and social issues were associated with low sentiment scores (<−0.85). Sentiment scores were high for articles on offsetting at a multicountry or global scale (0.47, 95% CI −0.06 to 0.99), and scores were the lowest in Australia (−1.03, 95% CI −1.36 to −0.70). Public sentiment based on media articles was generally negative toward offsetting, and many of the ecological and methodological issues and risks were reflected in the articles, but mitigation measures as a prerequisite to offsetting were mentioned in only 18% of all articles. With the seemingly high public interest in conservation and hence offsetting, it will be imperative to expand the current breadth of information about offsetting that is being communicated or made available to the public.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%