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Biodiversity offsetting has been formally implemented into the planning process in England through the introduction of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) on February 12, 2024 under the Environment Act 2021 through modification to the Town and Country Planning Act. BNG is England’s domestic ecological compensation policy, designed to compensate for ...
The National Environment Act 2019 requires no net loss (but preferably a net gain) as a goal for biodiversity offsets and biodiversity conservation in the country. [49] Before these legal requirements were introduced, a no net loss goal had been used by the World Bank as a lending requirement to fund a dam at Bujagali Falls in 2007. [50]
April 19–23, 2021 Great Backyard Bird Count: 2025 date, February 14–17 Invasive Species Awareness Week [183] Last Week of February Green Office Week: 2016 date, April 18–22 Keep Australia Beautiful Week [184] Last Full Week of August National Green Week: First week in February every year in the United States National Wildlife Week [185]
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
(February 2024) " No Net loss " is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation , mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains ...
The Convention's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, created in 2010, include the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The meetings of the Parties to the Convention are known as Conferences of the Parties (COP), with the first one (COP 1) held in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1994 and the most recent one (COP 16) in 2024 in Cali, Colombia. [2]
Regulation No. 857 – "Regulations regarding Procedures for Ascertaining of Groundwater Resources and Criteria of Quality" 19 October 2004; Regulations no 184 Requirements for Activities with Biocidal Products; Regulations no 340 on Procedures for Import, Notification and Risk Assessment of New Chemical Substances (6 August 2002)
"2024 Living Planet Report - A System in Peril" (PDF). World Wildlife Fund. 27 October 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 October 2024. "Adaptation Gap Report 2024". United Nations Environment Programme. 7 November 2024. Archived from the original on 10 November 2024. "State of the Cryosphere 2024 / Lost Ice, Global Damage" (PDF ...