Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

The Government has insisted that planning reforms include “numerous safeguards” to protect nature, after rejecting several cross-party recommendations aimed at reducing the environmental impact of new ...

Trade body argues biodiversity recovery scheme 'is working' for nature and the economy, as it calls on Ministers to deliver ...

More housing developments will be exempt from rules requiring builders in England to improve wildlife habitats, the government said on Tuesday Ministers have been reviewing rules known as Biodiversity ...

Recent rules that require all new building and road projects in England to address and offset their impact on nature are excellent in principle but flawed in their implementation, leading ...

Leading nature recovery project to issue Biodiversity Net Gain Units linked to release of family of beavers in Lincolnshire ...

The BNG Federation has written to ministers urging the government to maintain the integrity of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), warning further exemptions could damage investment and nature recovery. The ...

The government's plan to roll back biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements could put habitat protection at risk across an area covering more than eight times the size of Manchester by 2029, according ...

Researchers trialled the UK's new statutory biodiversity metric by using it to calculate the biodiversity value of 24 sites across England. These sites have all been monitored over the long-term, ...

First, sustainability and wellness accreditations moved from being something nice to have for developers and investors to something that could determine the value of a building. Now, the latest ...

Chris Hawdon, a resident in the area, said the quarry was "a general loss of biodiversity, which needs to be compensated for" ...

The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are interlinked. The 'nine planetary boundaries' address what is needed for the planet to remain in balance from the perspective of nature and ...