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Nature Recovery Group

Collaborating to educate and upskill more people about biodiversity, nature positive solutions and their role in nature recovery.

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.

2024/2025 Nature Recovery Group Update

Group Activities:

The Group has delivered several successful events so far, including a Virtual Conference which you can catch up on below. We will continue to build a library of resources and organise further events over the year, so watch this space!

An Introduction to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and the TNFD
In this webinar organised by the Nature Recovery Group, Julia Baker, Technical Director of Nature Services at Mott MacDonald helps you to gain an understanding of the principles and practice of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), how BNG fits with the TNFD framework, how the TNFD framework is helping to create a global shift towards nature positive outcomes, and what this could mean for your business.
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Biodiversity Enhancement Policies across the UK: Similarities and Differences in England, Scotland and Wales
Watch this webinar recording to help you to gain an understanding of the different Biodiversity enhancement policies across the UK. It begins with an overview of mandatory BNG in England and then describes Scotland’s Net Positive Effects for Biodiversity and how this is emerging in practice, as well as exploring the policy principles on Net Benefits for Biodiversity in Wales and policy news from Northern Ireland.
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Biodiversity Net Gain: Beyond Legal Compliance - Virtual Conference
Watch the Nature Recovery Group's inaugural Virtual Conference. Here, we invited experts from the public and private sector (RSPB, National Grid, Redrow and NatureMetrics) to reflect on the first 3 months of statutory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) in England.
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Meet the Team:

Mark and Grace are here to help get Partners involved with the Nature Recovery Group.

Mark Turner
Group Manager
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Grace O'Connell
Group Support
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Meeting Dates:

The next meeting date for the Nature Recovery Group has been set for 2024. Please see below for further details.

 Date/ TimeLocation
11th September 2024, 10:00am – 12:00pmMicrosoft Teams

Meeting Notes:

Download notes from any of the previous Nature Recovery Group meetings below.

 

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