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Essay: Environmental Finance

   

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Studies in Environmental Finance2Studies in Environmental FinanceIntroductionFor the last two decades, environmental policies have shifted their focus on using economic incentives as a more efficient way of ensuring biodiversity conservation compared to other traditional techniques. Biodiversity offsets is a term that refers to compulsory mechanisms that are put in place to address the environmental impacts that are brought by various human activities. The concept of biodiversity offset has existed for many years in the environmental regulations of several countries; however, its implementation was not that common. Recently this concept has gained political interests and many political agendas have endorsed it to be used to address the impact of human activities on biodiversity. This essay discusses the various issues the concept can address as well as several examples. The ecosystem is very valuable and its existence affects so many components, therefore, we should control how the human activities interfere with the ecosystem.Types of Environmental Problems that can be AddressedAll over the world, the various human activities especially economic activities affect the ecosystem make-up and this has to be addressed to ensure the environment is conserved. The several human activities that have environmental impacts and have to be addressed using the biodiversity concept include logging, mining, building and construction projects and many more activities. Timber is an important product that we need but the cutting down of trees brings the deforestation risks that contribute to the threatening global warming challenge. As much as we need timber to meet the various human needs we have to put mechanisms in place that will
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