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What once might have been a nice-to-have in terms of a real estate project’s environmental impact will soon be a must-have. From November, any commercial development will be subject to a planning condition requiring developers to show how they can increase biodiversity onsite by at least 10%. It marks the first time such a requirement will be statutory rather than voluntary. At UKREiiF, EG deputy editor Tim Burke sat down with Alexa Culver, general counsel at Environment Bank, and Ben Stansfield, partner at Gowling WLG, to discuss the new biodiversity net gain regulation, the challenges developers will face in factoring the new requirements into their planning proposals, and how an initiative from Environment Bank could give developers – and landowners – a new opportunity.

Read our 2022 state of brownfield report which shows that brownfield land for up to 1.2 million homes is lying dormant in England.

Kent-based GrowUp Farms becomes the first approved buyer of carbon units generated by the Heather Corrie Vale wilding project.

One farmer told Sky News the technique almost seemed too good to be true, but there's real hope it could help the UK reach net zero.

The Land App Team analyse today's report released by the Geospatial Commission on the land use framework and the pressing need for reliable and authoritative data to underpin these demands and transitions.

A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.

A strategy to harness the UK’s world-leading financial services sector to support our climate and environmental objectives.

Final Report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

A framework for scaling up private investment in nature recovery and sustainable farming.

Delivering Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) at landscape scale in South Cambridgeshire to maximise environmental and social outcomes

The Great Theft is a free chapter from Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature which was published by Pelagic 25 April. Reconnection is split into three parts, the first covering t…

UK missing out on opportunity for global leadership to make natural capital markets work for farmers, says FFCC

GFI is committed to unlocking private sector finance to support a farming transition in the UK.

Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.

Information addiction is rotting our brains

Learning to feel OK with unpredictability can bring great rewards. Just ask the world’s scientists and artists who embrace doubts and the unknown

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

In our latest webinar, partner Angus Walker introduces the latest state of play on biodiversity net gain (BNG) including the government’s consultation respon...

It has been great to see the growing amount of coverage in the news about Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), including a recent episode of BBC Countryfile. Under the Government’s flagship Environment Bill, both Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) and …

In this post, I’ll share a few scientific examples of how the actions within the Sustainable Farming Incentive can support businesses, bring about positive environmental outcomes whilst maintaining — and in some cases boosting — food production.

‘Andor’ showrunner Tony Gilroy tells all about making season 1 of ‘Andor’ (including episode 10's spectacular prison break), responds to critics, previews Season 2 and much, much more

The event, a first for Shaftesbury School, was called ‘Louder than Words’ and it more than certainly lived up to that name! At midday, in front of those fam...

Overproduction of cash crops, vast monocultures of chemical-dependent grains and massive animal agriculture operations are putting major stress not just on U.S. farmland — where they’re contributing to soil erosion, groundwater depletion and climate change — but these practices are also impacting areas such as the Brazilian Cerrado, where more than half the huge savanna […]

Regenesis starts harmlessly enough. In his first chapter George Monbiot illustrates the complexities of soil structure by describing what he sees when he looks at a sod dug up from his orchard through a 40x magnifying eyepiece.