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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #56 The Biodiversity Emergency
Description: Biodiversity in the UK is facing an emergency with around 30 percent of native species becoming extinct since the 1970s. This loss of wildlife, which echoes trends all over the world, could have catastrophic impacts on food, air quality and the environment. However for the UK change is on the horizon with a new Environment Bill seeking to reverse this with requirements for developers to deliver an increase in biodiversity on their projects – a concept known as biodiversity net gain.
This update on our episode from August 2019, gives additional insight into the details of the new requirements. It fin...