Watchdog barks as biodiversity net gain foundations shake

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

The pillars of biodiversity net gain - a flagship nature policy - are under stress as the Office for Environmental Protection has warned the government against making any substantive changes to it without safeguards.

This week, Eco Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons speaks with net gain expert Natalie Duffus at the University of Oxford about the proposed changes, their potential impacts and the government’s next moves. 

ENDS Report news editor Pippa Neill also discusses an exclusive on the true cost of DEFRA’s digital waste tracking scheme. It was intended to help identify, tackle and prevent waste crime but why has its price tag tripled? 

PLUS: The so-called world’s biggest offshore wind farm has been given the green light in Scotland, the UN’s Global Plastics Treaty in Switzerland has begun, and Yorkshire Water has been fined almost £1m for a ‘catastrophic’ chlorine spill.

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