My ambition for how and where funding from Biodiversity Net Gain should be deployed is to see a major habitat creation programme with landowners, farmers and conservation bodies. There are four key points to make on this : If Covid-19 is telling us anything it is that people hugely value their natural environment – witness […]

There can be no doubt that the agricultural sector is likely to experience a major impact on its activities in the coming decade. Work by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission has identified the urgent need to refocus how we use land, how we farm, that we need far greater emphasis on agroecological approaches to […]

The Environment Bill sets out the mechanism by which biodiversity net gain from development is to operate. Planning Authorities will have a duty to implement the requirement for developers to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG) on all developments covered by the Town & Country Planning Act (1990). Developers will be required to submit a ‘biodiversity […]

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 […]