The time for Nature is now
This will require significant investment but also a changed mindset, recognising and quantifying the benefits for business and society as a whole. There is a huge amount to do. Making the built environment, its environs and the vast amounts of corporate or publicly owned and stewarded green and blue infrastructure fit for nature recovery must be a collaborative effort.
Encouragingly, demand for nature positive solutions is being stimulated by the legislative and policy driven path towards biodiversity net gain and equivalents.
However, that is not the whole story. It is not possible to achieve net zero without nature recovery, and it will not be possible to achieve nature recovery without biodiversity.
Clients, planners, designers, contactors, FM service providers, suppliers and service users throughout the built environment sector can help make this happen.
Better for the environment, better for productivity, better for wellbeing.
About the Group:
Our newly formed Nature Recovery Leadership Group has a core focus for 2024-25:
“To educate and upskill more people about biodiversity, nature positive solutions and their role in nature recovery.”
There is a shared desire and need for all elements of School Partnership to engage. The group is already addressing the fast developing agendas for external reporting standards and addressing deep supply chain impacts, as well as meeting the challenges of delivering against mandatory biodiversity net gain and its equivalents.
Tasks being undertaken include:
- Developing content to engage colleagues at all levels including project delivery, commercial, procurement, customers, and supply chain and in securing nature positive outcomes locally and globally;
- Building an exciting and challenging events programme to engage and inform stakeholders;
- Collaboration on net gain strategies and practice, creating case studies to demonstrate innovation and the art of the possible;
- Developing and growing relationships with regulatory bodies, NGOs and corporate reporting stakeholder organisations.
2024/2025 Nature Recovery Group Update
To learn more about the group’s targets and objectives for 2024/2025, download the Business Plan below.
Download the business planGroup Activities:
The Group has delivered several successful events so far, including a Virtual Conference which you can catch up on below. We have also refreshed and updated the School’s core Introduction to Biodiversity module. This explains the principles and benefits of biodiversity, and explains the opportunities for enhancing wildlife in the built environment. We will continue to build a library of resources and organise further events over the year, so watch this space!
Meet the Team:
Mark and Grace are here to help get Partners involved with the Nature Recovery Group.
Meeting Dates:
The next meeting date for the Nature Recovery Group has been set for 2024. Please see below for further details.
| Date/ Time | Location |
| 28th November 2024, 10:00am – 12:00pm | Microsoft Teams |
Meeting Notes:
Download notes from any of the previous Nature Recovery Group meetings below.
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Our Partners set the strategic direction of the School and identify key issues to address, new training to develop, supplier day and workshop content, and, just as importantly, ensure the good governance of the School.
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Sustainability AssessmentOur Partners
The Nature Recovery Group is a collaboration of Partners driving a common approach to upskill more people about biodiversity, its importance, nature positive solutions and their role in nature recovery.
