Biodiversity offsetting
John Box, from Atkins, describes a development where Defra's biodiversity offsetting metric was applied retrospectively
Biodiversity offsetting is a market-based system for conservation activities involving measurable actions designed to compensate for residual negative impacts on biodiversity from development after avContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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OEP publishes first monitoring report on 25 Year Environment Plan
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has today published its first monitoring report on the UK government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, warning that progress so far has been “slow”.
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IEMA CEO, Sarah Mukherjee MBE, has described today's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a "stark reminder" of the significant threat that climate change poses to civilisation as we know it.
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