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 ...
This news sparkedwidespread criticism with Dr Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link,statingthat the policy had "already been paredback to the bare minimum" and that "delays and further exemptions could strike at the foundations" of the emerging biodiversity net gainmarket...
Commitments have been made to a net gain policy for environment and biodiversity through supporting healthy, well-functioning ecosystems and ecologically coherent protected area networks [39]. More recently, in 2016, a policy window has opened in response to the UK's departure from the EU. Whilst...
Methods Study area The city of Bologna is located in the Po valley (Northern Italy), close to the Apennine mountains (latitude of 44°30′27″N; longitude 11°21′05″E), with an average altitude of 54 m a.s.l. (http://www.comune.bologna.it/media/files/f2_relazionegeologica.pdf...