On 13 December at 3pm ENDS Report is set to host a live webinar delving into the questions which remain about biodiversity net gain (BNG)just weeks out from the mechanism becoming law.Lucy Cheeseman, deputy head of land use and head of BNG, will be joined on the panel by Nick White, ...
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According to a new policy called the “Biodiversity net gain”,local house-building companies are now required to offset their negative impacts on biodiversity by purchasing creditsgenerated by farmers who switch from agricultural production to some kind of conservation land use. “This scheme...
On 7 June, DEFRA opened a consultation on a net gain scheme for the marine environment to complement the one already in place for terrestrial habitats. It closes on 30 August. Industries that are likely to come under its umbrella will be any that are subject to marine licensing regulations,...
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....
The "net-gain" condition is measured using a biodiversity metric and will likely be mandated by 2023. The body of knowledge concerning biodiversity and architecture is less well developed than that regarding embedded carbon emissions, for example, and there is a somewhat limited opportunity for ...
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...
The world will need to have an approach that provides a clear path to net gain of biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people by 2030 (‘curve A’ on page 3 in the document) [27]. See below (Fig. 2.4). Fig. 2.4 Biodiversity status during the decade 2021–2030 and towards ...
1Intergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services [IPBES], 2019, Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,https://www.ipbes. net/global-assessment-report-biodiversity-ecosystem-services...
“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), ...