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Nutrient neutrality: Can local mitigation schemes finally unblock the housing logjam?

In the Spring Budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt promised to provide funding for 'high-quality, locally-led nutrient mitigation schemes', but do these schemes work and will the promise of more funding be sufficient to alleviate the problem? James Fair reports

Latest land, ecology & development news

Natural England nutrient credit schemes opens in Teesside to unlock development

DEFRA’s nature policy has a ‘concerning lack of detail’ on climate impact, warns watchdog

DEFRA ‘pretty clear’ on what REUL law to repeal as it moves to consider reforms

‘Lost decade’: No UK sector is prepared for climate change, warns watchdog

Wildcats to be released in Scotland after first ever UK-trial approval

Approval of new oil extraction project deemed to be ‘aligned with net zero’

‘Substantial update’ to biodiversity metric unveiled

‘Legislative sledgehammer’: Scotland creates new raptor persecution bill

‘Drenched in oil’: Major incident declared after pipeline leak at Poole Harbour SSSI

‘Bitterly disappointing’: Complete peat ban not expected until 2030 ‘at the earliest’

Land, ecology & development analysis

What are the biodiversity net gain ‘elephant traps’ lying in wait?

14 Mar 2023 by Tess Colley
Delivering a 10% biodiversity net gain on most new developments will become law this year, but Natural England’s chief executive has warned of “elephant traps” that need filling to make the policy a success. But what are they? Tess Colley reports

‘The unethical environmental lawyer’: Does the legal profession need to rethink its green ethics?

13 Mar 2023 by Isabella Kaminski
In a world where the existential threat of climate change and environmental harm is rising up the agenda, do environmental lawyers need to rethink the ethics of their work when batting for clients contributing to the problem? Isabella Kaminski speaks to some of the lawyers asking awkward questions about who should bear responsibility for planetary harms

The growing evidence of the impact of PFAS on wildlife

07 Mar 2023 by Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea
Evidence of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ impacts on wildlife and the environment is growing with more than 330 species worldwide found to be contaminated with the man-made chemicals. Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea report

‘Useless legacy’: DEFRA shelves plans for major arms-length body shake-up

28 Feb 2023 by Tess Colley
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial proposals to bring forward a significant structural reform of DEFRA’s arms-length bodies have been shelved, the department has confirmed, with multiple sources telling ENDS that much smaller scale changes to how its agencies work are planned instead

Fact-checker: Has the post-Brexit money promised to farmers been cut?

21 Feb 2023 by Tess Colley
It has been reported that the money promised to farmers post-Brexit has been slashed. But do the figures add up? Tess Colley reports

The ENDS Briefing: The policy changes to expect from the Environment Act targets

13 Feb 2023 by Tess Colley
All the information you need to anticipate the implications of the new Environment Act targets in terms of policy and regulation, including expert analysis of what achieving them will require, and which sectors are set to be most impacted by them

ECO Chamber podcast

ECO CHAMBER PODCAST: DRS disaster, dormice killings and surfing on sewage

Watchdog walkouts, COMAH crisis, and inside Attenborough's Wild Isles

Dark waters, shrew-eating spiders, and DEFRA's 'useless legacy'

Shell sued, wood-burning worries, and DEFRA's dirty data

Trash talk, acronym overload, and DEFRA’s sunset clause strife

Divide and REUL, beaver breakout, and DEFRA’s ‘culture of delay’
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