Biodiversity services
Biodiversity is fast taking centre stage in corporate sustainability strategies with many companies
setting Net Gain targets.
Aiming for Biodiversity Net Gain demonstrates leadership and sends a clear message that the company takes sustainability seriously. Our expert consultancy services support clients to set and achieve Net Gain efficiently and effectively.
We develop corporate strategies, management systems and training programmes on Net Gain. We provide tools to monitor losses and gains in biodiversity throughout a project’s lifecycle and road maps showing each stage of the Net Gain process.
We work with a variety of customers, from multi-national companies to small family-owned firms, offering a bespoke approach for each individual project.
Balfour Beatty is the lead contributing author on the UK's first Good Practice Principles on Biodiversity Net Gain.
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Explaining Biodiversity Net Gain scoring
How is the Net Gain score of a project calculated?
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Explaining Biodiversity and Natural Capital
Calculating the biodiversity Net Gain and Natural Capital values of a project's footprint helps us understand the unseen natural benefits of a piece of land.
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Natural Capital Benefits
This infographic shows the Natural Capital Benefits of Biodiversity Net Gain (in financial values) for a transport upgrade scheme.
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Blogs and further information
Piloting an ‘ecometric’ with biodiversity units
February 2018
Ecometric conference paper
Six steps to main-streaming Biodiversity Net Gain
January 2018
Main-streaming Net Gain
Biodiversity Net Gain good practice principles
January 2018
Biodiversity Net Gain presentation
Biodiversity Net Gain and Corporate Natural Capital Accounting
October 2017
Watch the BBOP webinar
Housing, Infrastructure and Natural Capital
October 2017
View the presentation
Conservation Optimism Summit
Summer 2017
Watch the video
Consultation on UK's Biodiversity Net Gain Good Practice Principles
June 2017
Watch the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program webinar
Introduction to the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain Good Practice Principles
December 2016
Workshop outputs Read more
Opening the doors to biodiversity net gain
October 2016
Watch the IEMA webinar
Biodiversity Net Gain is the next big thing
August 2016
So what's the business case? Read more
Biodiversity Offsetting
Summer 2016
It can be better for nature Read more
A road map to Biodiversity Net Gain
Read our latest public policy paper 'A Better Balance' here.
