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 […]

Without an environment we have nothing. Yet the escalation in news stories about biodiversity loss, impacts of climate change now happening at pace, a food system that is not fit for purpose (not least because of the massive externality costs in its production), obesity and neurological illness epidemics linked to environmental issues, and a constantly […]

Whilst the advice on environmental net gain recently given to Government by the Natural Capital Committee (NCC) has some welcome recommendations that Environment Bank agree with, some of the reporting of its recommendations have been confused. We are very much of the view, based on our extensive experience of establishing biodiversity net gain sites as […]