Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) will apply to large developments granted planning permission from November 2023. Following the publication in February this year of its response to a major public consultation on the nuts-and-bolts of BNG, the government has published two guidance notes, aimed...
Requirements for new development to deliver Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) have been hailed as a world-leading initiative for reversing biodiversity loss. However, these long-awaited regulations have been delayed from November to 2023 to January 2024 (April 2024 for small sites) to allow more time ...
The Environment Act 2021 states that planning permissions granted in England (with a few exemptions) will have to deliver at least 10% BNG from November 2023. The BNG metric approach is one that our nature and biodiversity team have worked with on their projects since 2019. It is a quantifia...
Based on the premise that development damages biodiversity, it is expected that from November this year all planning permissions granted in England will have to demonstrate a minimum 10% uplift in biodiversity associated with their sites.This biodiversity net gain (BNG) will be achieved by enhancing...
Improving the biodiversity of England is the primary aim of new legislation on biodiversity net gain (BNG) that came into force earlier this year. But the benefits could be broad. Why nature can’t be neglected any more November 6, 2023 For Mott MacDonald and other built environment consultan...
“unit of biodiversity” actually means, though, varies; there are multiple ways to define a unit. Depending on the project, a unit is usually based on a specific area (one hectare, for example), a measure of improvement (such as a 1 percent gain across an ecosystem-specific metric), ...
Working for Biodiversity Net Gain: An Overview of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) 2004–2018 (BBOP, Forest Trends, 2018). Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodivers...
This paper challenges “biodiversity skepticism:” an inferential move that acknowledges the proliferation, heterogeneity, and lack of covariance
of Ecology and Environmental Management. She has been a certified auditor for the Biodiversity Benchmark scheme since 2007. Amongst other things Claire is experienced in undertaking Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, Biodiversity Net Gain calculations and in the production of conservation management plans....
In a ‘landmark’ deal, the world’s first private sector loan based on biodiversity net gain unit models has been granted. Triodos Bank UK has loaned £3.85m to environmental consultancy Nature Impact – the money will be used to purchase a total of 122 acres over two sites, unlocking...