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✉️ Save the Date ✉️ Invasive Annual Grass Project Planning, Grants, and Implementation: A Webinar for Land Management Practitioners December 18 from 11-12:30 ET Join ENVU and other partners for part two of their invasive annual grass webinar series. This webinar will share real-world lessons learned from large-scale restoration projects including topics like: the importance of partnerships, developing shared goals, project site selection, acquiring funding, and communicating success to funders and beyond. Click here to access session one and to register for session two:

🌱📢 It's time to share your perspective again! Soil-X-Change is promoting a survey for members of Operational Groups! (OGs) If you are part of an OG, take this opportunity to share your insights and experiences on project preparation, implementation and operation.  💡The responses from the survey will guide us to provide feedback and recommendations for future OGs.  Make your impact today! 🌟 Choose your language and find the survey here  📝 👉https://lnkd.in/g53_8Uua Founded by the European Union

With mandatory BNG rules now in force for all sites, I have been assisting the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with feedback gathering for the BNG Small Sites Metric tool.    The results to the three questions - which 52 SME developers have responded to so far - are below.   These meaningful findings are being used by DEFRA to help formulate and implement BNG metrics going forwards.    Many thanks to all those who have participated! The link to respond to the survey is here: https://lnkd.in/ebQfAq5s

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𝗔𝗧𝗠 | Justin Joshua Pungyan, IDIS Environmental Research Officer discusses the Data Analysis and Conclusion the Walk the Talk : A Presentation on the Results of the Citizen Walkability Assessment in Tagum City at the Tagum City Historical and Cultural Center. #IDIS #WalkTheTalk #CitizenWalkabilityStudy

We are excited to announce the release of the ‘Building a Waterwise Economy’ report, an economic framework that aligns water resource incentives with economic development to shape future policy recommendations for Nevada. WaterStart, through the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED), partnered with SRI to develop the waterwise economic framework, hosting focus groups with stakeholders from across the state to identify challenges and opportunities related to economic development and water resource management. The report provides a series of recommendations to help GOED and its partners achieve these strategies: • In addition to finding strategic regional alignment, embrace a ‘not one size fits all’ approach. • Address procedural and knowledge gaps across the economic and water management ecosystem. • Grow Nevada’s reputation as a leader in water resource management to propel economic development. • Build on ongoing initiatives and efforts. Learn more about the report and its recommendations on our website: https://buff.ly/3Bpq03M

📚 At the Land Portal Foundation we are proud to support the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. We're thrilled to announce that the 2024 The World Bank Land Conference session materials are now available in our Land Library—hosting over 73,000 publications on land governance! 🤓 We've carefully curated and preserved over 100 PowerPoint presentations from 69 sessions, enriched with detailed metadata and abstracts to ensure key insights are easily accessible. This effort exemplifies our commitment to providing lasting, open access to critical land-related knowledge for decision-makers, policymakers, and stakeholders worldwide. 🌍 In an era of contested information, the Land Portal remains dedicated to making land governance insights freely available to shape informed, impactful policies for the future. 🔗 Explore the materials ➡️ https://lnkd.in/etjQtCeW #LandGovernance #OpenKnowledge #LandPolicy #SustainableDevelopment M.Mercedes Stickler Juergen Voegele Thea Hilhorst Klaus Deininger Jaap Zevenbergen

I am delighted to be speaking at the Annual Conference of the Constructed Wetland Association, 16 - 17 October 2024. Together with my colleague David Naismith from Mott MacDonald we will be discussing how to support greater use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the water industry - what barriers exist and how to overcome them. ❌ Barrier – different definitions for NbS. ✅ Enabler - Standardisation of naming conventions to provide clarity and avoid confusion among various stakeholders. ❌ Barrier – Lack of confidence in NbS, larger land requirement, tighter consents. ✅Enabler - Using hybrid systems to provide more robust treatment, meet tighter consents, and efficiently use the available space. ❌ Barrier – NbS being scoped out at early design stages. ✅ Enabler - We are currently preparing NbS selection tool to ensure NbS are not rejected during the optioneering selection process.   However, there are other barriers related to the fact that NbS often require significant capital investment, and discharge consents are becoming increasingly stringent. Key Discussion points 📌 How can we financially quantify the benefit of NbS within the water industry? 📌 How can we take a flexible approach to permitting taking into account the seasonal variability in the performance of NbS systems? I would love to hear your thoughts.

Since the 2023 release of the U.S. National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions, there has been progress toward quantifying the economic value of natural capital, providing critical data to help monitor changes in the condition and economic value of land, water, air, and other natural assets. This progress includes the development of pilot natural capital accounts that rely on existing data to estimate quantities and values of natural capital assets.

"How do I become BNG compliant?" It's a question every property developer should ask. In short: You must provide a minimum net gain of 10% to meet your Biodiversity Net Gain obligations. The 10% net gain is measured using the most current Defra BNG Metric (the statutory metric at the moment).  So, if your development would remove 10 BNG Units, you would need to ensure that 11 BNG Units are delivered. We can help determine how many BNG units you need and help you get compliant. Get in touch today.