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Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety.

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Are self-sufficient rural communities an idea whose time has come? A few years ago, councils and neighbours tended to write them off as hippies. Now attitudes are changing

Sustainable farming is necessary for decarbonization. But to get the world to net-zero, the agriculture sector must take action along the entire value chain.

The long read: While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

… The economy and banks depend on nature to survive Read More »

The pressure to financialise nature in order to offset destructive practices including carbon and nature credits, and biodiversity net gain

On International Day for Biological Diversity Service Designer Chris Brooker shares some insight into the work that has gone into designing a service for a unique new government policy which goes live later this year.

What once might have been a nice-to-have in terms of a real estate project’s environmental impact will soon be a must-have. From November, any commercial development will be subject to a planning condition requiring developers to show how they can increase biodiversity onsite by at least 10%. It marks the first time such a requirement will be statutory rather than voluntary. At UKREiiF, EG deputy editor Tim Burke sat down with Alexa Culver, general counsel at Environment Bank, and Ben Stansfield, partner at Gowling WLG, to discuss the new biodiversity net gain regulation, the challenges developers will face in factoring the new requirements into their planning proposals, and how an initiative from Environment Bank could give developers – and landowners – a new opportunity.

Read our 2022 state of brownfield report which shows that brownfield land for up to 1.2 million homes is lying dormant in England.

Kent-based GrowUp Farms becomes the first approved buyer of carbon units generated by the Heather Corrie Vale wilding project.

One farmer told Sky News the technique almost seemed too good to be true, but there's real hope it could help the UK reach net zero.

The Land App Team analyse today's report released by the Geospatial Commission on the land use framework and the pressing need for reliable and authoritative data to underpin these demands and transitions.

A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.

A strategy to harness the UK’s world-leading financial services sector to support our climate and environmental objectives.

Final Report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

A framework for scaling up private investment in nature recovery and sustainable farming.

Delivering Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) at landscape scale in South Cambridgeshire to maximise environmental and social outcomes

The Great Theft is a free chapter from Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature which was published by Pelagic 25 April. Reconnection is split into three parts, the first covering t…

UK missing out on opportunity for global leadership to make natural capital markets work for farmers, says FFCC

GFI is committed to unlocking private sector finance to support a farming transition in the UK.

Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.