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Statutory Biodiversity Metric public service announcement. People may have noticed that Defra recently published a minor update to the Statutory Biodiversity Metric (main and small sites version). Please be aware that the previously published version of the Statutory Biodiversity Metric (main and Small Sites version) remains legally valid. You do not have to transfer to the updated version if you do not wish to. #biodiversitynetgain #statutorybiodiversitymetric

The International Day for Biodiversity (IDB) is celebrated every year on 22 May. The theme of IDB 2024, “Be part of the Plan”, is a call to action for all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Biodiversity Plan which is the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. I am joining AEIAN and the rest of the world to know how you are being, or how you intend to be part of the Biodiversity Plan. The Big question is, What are you doing? Let’s know what you are doing to reverse the loss of biodiversity. #PartOfThePlan  #BiodiversityDay #aeian

Updated guidance has been published on the purchase of statutory biodiversity credits for Biodiversity Net Gain. Please do remember that statutory biodiversity credits are the option of last resort and you should first explore options for purchasing biodiversity units from the wider biodiversity gain market. Only if such options do not exist should statutory biodiversity credits be purchased. Although it is preferable to buy biodiversity units from sellers close to the development site where possible developers are legally entitled to purchase such units from anywhere in England. Large numbers of units (area and linear) are now registered on the net gain register and available for sale to buyers across England #BNG #biodiversitynetgain #statutorybiodiversitycredits https://lnkd.in/d2PY-SRB

We published the second issue of our Biodiversity Market Report yesterday with coverage of Earthly's collaboration with South Downs National Park Authority and Ben Taylor, whom we recently interviewed, from Iford Estate to offer voluntary biodiversity credits. Biodiversity Net Gain in the UK - required for developers - is serving as a template for the voluntary biodiversity credit market. This is following the trend of Australia and Colombia where there are already biodiversity offset schemes that are complementing the development of a voluntary market. Sign up for our weekly report that includes prices, news and analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gZRVa6sT.

Today it's UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityDay and this year's theme is 'Be part of the Plan' - a call to action for all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal #GlobalBiodiversityFramework. On 19 December 2023, the one-year anniversary of the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity launched “The Biodiversity Plan” campaign aiming to communicate and promote the 4 Goals and the 23 Targets of the Framework to the world. Communicating the Biodiversity Plan is crucial to enabling a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach that will take the world from agreement to action. Governments are accountable for the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, but everyone has a role to play. Check out how to take action: https://lnkd.in/gzGC_9qb #OceanCommunications #OceanClimateAction

📚 #TheCurrentColumn Tomorrow is the International Day for Biodiversity (IDB). Yet despite the historic new global framework on biological diversity adopted in December 2022 – the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) – and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, around 1 million species are still at risk of extinction. ‘Be Part of the Plan’, the theme of this year’s IDB, once again emphasises the need for concerted efforts by society as a whole to preserve biodiversity.   💡 IDOS experts Jonas Hein, Marcelo Inacio da Cunha and Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco emphasise that the concept of protected areas needs to be fundamentally revised: https://lnkd.in/ex7B7MnF. | #biodiversity #InternationalDayForBiodiversity

📣 Today is the International Day for Biodiversity (IDB) and the theme is "Be part of the Plan" 🌳 “Be part of the Plan” is a call to action for all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also referred to as The Biodiversity Plan. 📖 But what is the Global Biodiversity Framework? And what does it mean for Mauritius? Find out more in the document below ⬇ #BiodiversityDay #PartOfThePlan #ForNature #Mauritius

How VGP tries to contribute to the local ecosystem and improve the biodiversity of the regions where we operate? Our latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights our biodiversity strategy and shows some of our remarkable projects. Did you know that VGP has already created a total of 548,000 m2 of biotopes in or around VGP Parks? Read the Corporate Responsibility Report and discover more about our biotopes, our beehives and many other projects here: https://lnkd.in/eniS4cSk #VGP #ESG #Biodiversity #CorporateResponsibility

International day for Biodiversity (Theme: Be part of the plan ) This year's theme calls for action for all stakeholders to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by supporting the implementation of the Kunming -montreal "Global Biodiversity Framework" also referred to as the biodiversity plan. Let's combine our efforts to conserve our biodiversity.

BNG is now in play for major sites. Small sites will follow in April 2024. Under BNGs statutory framework, subject to some exceptions (https://bit.ly/3uXabxY), every grant of planning permission is deemed to have been granted subject to the condition that the biodiversity gain objective is met (aka the biodiversity gain condition). This objective is for development to deliver at least a 10% increase in biodiversity value relative to the pre-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat. This can be achieved through onsite biodiversity gains, registered offsite biodiversity gains or statutory biodiversity credits.