CBCS’s Professor Martine Maron was invited to the Mozambique capital of Maputo in June to deliver training in estimating biodiversity losses and gains for the implementation of biodiversity offsets.
Martine’s invitation came from the COMBO+ Program, which is led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and works across Mozambique, Guinea, Uganda, Madagascar, Myanmar and Laos to help integrate the mitigation hierarchy into development planning. Mozambique partners are WCS-Mozambique, the Foundation for the Conservation of Biodiversity and the National Directorate of Environment from the Ministry of Land and Environment.
Photo credit: Martine Maron
The training focused on building capacity in the development of species and ecosystem metrics for estimating biodiversity losses and gains to implement biodiversity offsets. Over two days, Martine worked with 47 technicians from the National Directorate of Environment Biodiversity Offset Assessment and Monitoring Office, representatives from the Environmental Impact Assessment Technical Commission, environmental consultants, academic researchers and members of the environment departments of large development projects.
The COMBO+ Program has worked in Mozambique since 2021 to improve policy and build capacity among all actors involved in the implementation of biodiversity offsets and the mitigation hierarchy in Mozambique.
Photo credit: Martine Maron
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