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I have started a new podcast called “Every Sound There Is: Exploring The Beatles’ Songs”.

Some offset schemes allow research or public education as “indirect” offsets, as opposed to a direct offset, which undertakes on-ground works that create environmental benefits in a clear and direct way.

For offsets to do their job, they need to be in place and delivering their benefits for at least as long as the development has its impacts.

In some environmental offset schemes, the “currency” used to measure impacts and benefits is vegetation or habitat.

Biodiversity offset schemes usually aim to deliver “no net loss” of biodiversity, but no net loss relative to what?

In environmental offset schemes, there is often a time lag between when the environmental damage is done and when the offset project delivers its full benefits.

When designing an environmental offset scheme, it is important to account for the probability that an offset project will fail to deliver its intended benefits.

In an environmental offset scheme, the environmental impacts of a development project and the benefits of an offset project need to be compared quantitatively.

There are many types of graphs that can depict the riskiness of a decision option.

An environmental offset is an environmental project that is undertaken to compensate for environmental damage caused by some economic activity, such as establishing a mine or building some houses.