Dasos article in Environmental Finance:

In Europe, biodiversity is generally produced by millions of small landowners. For more biodiversity, a functioning market for biodiversity is a prerequisite. Forest certification forms essentially a voluntary market for biodiversity, where a “plus-sustainability” scheme has standards more ambitious than those required by law.

In the following, we illustrate a market-based solution for biodiversity based on an existing plus-sustainability scheme. Our DHF-Model is currently being applied for biodiversity conservation on 5 million hectares as a first target.

Please see the whole article at https://www.environmental-finance.com/content/market-insight/there-is-a-market-for-biodiversity-and-it-is-expanding.html