21 Jul 2022
A three-year strategic sponsorship agreement has been signed to support the launch and scaling of critical market infrastructure for nature-based solutions market The Biosphere Foundation, the non-profit trading arm of the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, has teamed up with Siemens to launch and globally scale the market infrastructure to transform the natural capital sector. […]
01 Jun 2022
07 Apr 2022
The government has announced details of how the Sustainable Farming Incentive will support farming to deliver nature-based solutions. Farmers will be paid to provide public goods, such as: improved water quality biodiversity climate change mitigation animal health and welfare In 2022, SFI aims to: encourage actions that improve soil health recognise how moorland provides benefits […]
28 Sep 2021
From European Environment Agency European water bodies suffer from agricultural pollution as well as pollution from insufficiently treated waste water from cities, industry and scattered dwellings, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Artificial barriers, together with navigation, abstraction, aquaculture, and invasive alien species cause additional pressures. However, solutions to tackle the problems […]
14 Sep 2021
The international NNBF Guidelines provide practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coastlines, bays, and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater systems. Read more here. The NNBF Guidelines include 20 chapters organized into three sections: overarching […]
07 Sep 2021
Environmental NGOs including Waterwise, the RSPB, Angling Trust, Wildlife Trusts and Rivers Trusts have, as part of the Blueprint for Water coalition, just published their top 10 asks for the five new regional water resources plans. Linked to the publication Blueprint also published this blog and has organised a series of free water resources webinars aimed at […]
21 Jul 2021
Projects to restore kelp forests, create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management, and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change, Defra, the Environment Agency & Natural England have announced today (14 July 2021). Read more […]
13 Jul 2021
The Wildlife Trusts unveil new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Today (8 July), a raft of new projects designed to help the UK tackle the climate and nature emergency is announced by The Wildlife Trusts. They focus on employing nature-based solutions to […]
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