Back in 2008, I proposed an ‘Office for Standards in the Environment’, part of whose role would be to ensure development delivered effective mitigation, compensation and gains for biodiversity, with proper governance around delivery to make sure things happened for nature both within the development site boundary and on specific offset habitat banks. It goes […]

Plants play a crucial role in many ecosystems, the health of the environment, and of mankind and their protection is vital to ensure the survivability of these ecosystems for years to come. The protection of flora species is not a practice that many people are common with, but just like wildlife, the extinction of flora […]

An article about biodiversity net gain was featured in the July edition of the Countryside and Land Association magazine ‘Land and Business’. This piece included an interview with Environment Bank Chairman David Hill. The article brought the concept to a vast number of landowners, many of whom were unaware of the possibilities the schemes could […]

Yesterday the government announced it was launching a Green Finance Strategy with the aim to increase investment in sustainable projects and infrastructure. This was accompanied by the statement that there would be an expectation for limited companies to disclose how climate change impacts their work. The government will explore the best way to do this […]

Below follows a brief summary of the article, if you would like to read the full piece click here. The latest issue of The Chartered Institue of Ecology and Environmental Management’s (CIEEM’s) InPractice (June 2019) focussed on the subject of biodiversity net gain. A number of articles were included in the issue from a wide […]