Natural Capitalism
Natural Capital accounting is based on what biodiversity does for us. It is a keystone tenet of the forthcoming Environment Bill. "Self - serving nonsense cooked up by governments and their advisors, such as "natural capital accounting and biodiversity net gain," treat one habitat or feature as exchangeable for another. Don't lament the twisted old oak we are felling, we'll plant 10 more in plastic tubes and call it a net gain", writes George Monbiot in Noble Rot (August, 21). Biodiversity net gain As the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) metric meets its third iteration, it's time for greater public scrutiny and the Community Planning Alliance which has 500 member groups, hosted a webinar last week. Among the speakers were Sophus zu Ermgassen from Kent University, and Max Heaver from DEFRA, who is on the BNG design team. Their YouTube channel with the talk is here: CPA Webinars Sophus expounded the research undertaken by Kent University and concluded...