As we inch ever closer to The Environment Bill becoming law, the debate around Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) – the concept I introduced to the UK over a decade ago – is heating up. This week Channel 4 News covered an item on BNG that I watched with much interest. The piece, by Chief Correspondent […]

The IPCC report released this month(https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf) makes for terrifying reading. It can no longer sensibly be argued that humans are not influencing the world’s climate and at a rate which spells impending catastrophe unless we take immediate action. Large areas of the world are highly likely to become uninhabitable by humans which means that mass […]

Climate change and biodiversity loss are recognised as the two existential threats to our civilisation and the next few years will see a major transformation in how we use land so as to address these crises. The impacts on land use are liable to be even more significant in the uplands of Britain than in […]

On-site Biodiversity Net Gain delivery has very limited value – off-site provision will become the norm once the BNG policy is mandated into law I set up the Environment Bank back in 2007 because I was especially concerned at the way biodiversity was being treated within the planning and development control industry. The main issue […]

No longer having to spend endless hours on endless trains going to endless meetings, I have found the freedom to spend more time in the natural environment – actually doing the things I enjoy – birding and wildlife photography. As for many other people, one of the very few positives of Covid has been the […]