Our Chairman David Hill was recently interviewed for a piece in Transform Magazine, a publication from the Institute for Environmental Management (IEMA). The piece titled “widen the net” covered the application of biodiversity net gain and the implications for people working within the sustainability sector. David once again highlighted that offsetting if applied in the […]

The Environment Bill was introduced on the 15 October 2019 by Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers. The Government has also published a policy statement alongside the Bill. Environment Bank welcomes the Government officially acknowledging the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and the need to address these through nature-based solutions. The Secretary of State declared that endeavours should […]

A recent blog article published on the US-based website Ecosystem Marketplace discussed how Environment Bank is pioneering the use of techniques from the USA in the UK. The article provides an excellent summary of the Environment Bank’s history since 2009 and highlights some of the key ongoing challenges faced in implementing offsetting and mitigation banking […]

The latest update to the Environment Bill, just released, confirms that all future projects involving the development of land will need to deliver a 10% biodiversity net gain. There is also a requirement to manage those enhancements for thirty years. Planning Authorities therefore now require transparent, independent, effective means of facilitating biodiversity net gain delivery. […]

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 […]