Below you can find the CIEEM 2025 Spring Conference programme, or click ‘download’ on the right hand side to download a physical copy.
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CIEEM 2025 Spring ConferenceMandatory Biodiversity Net Gain at Year One: Reflections, Lessons and Future Directions 18 March 2025 – Online |
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SESSION 1. Reflections, lessons and future directions Chair: Penny Lewns CEcol CEnv MCIEEM, CIEEM President |
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9:30 | Welcome and Introduction – Penny Lewns CEcol CEnv MCIEEM, CIEEM President |
9:35 | Keynote Address: Biodiversity Net Gain – making space for nature and people – Dr Tony Juniper CBE CEnv, Chair – Natural England |
10:00 | Mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain at year one: reflections, lessons and future directions – a local planning authority perspective – Rachael Rhodes MCIEEM, Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service |
10.25 | Responsible Body – one year old and counting: lessons learnt and implications for the future – Dr Tim Graham MCIEEM and Natalie Bryce, RSK Wilding/RSK Biocensus |
10:50 | Break |
SESSION 2. Delivering offsite BNG Chair: Sally Hayns CEcol FCIEEM, Chief Executive Officer, CIEEM |
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11:20 | More than Biodiversity Net Gain – the rewards and challenges of a new not-for-profit business model for BNG – Rachel Lenane CEnv MCIEEM, Gloucestershire Nature and Climate Fund |
11:45 | Offsite BNG: securing meaningful benefits for nature and local communities – Rachel Blount MCIEEM, Nattergal |
12.15 | Keeping offsite local – an example of navigating mandatory BNG – Jessica Christie GradCIWEM and Joe Gough MCIEEM, WSP |
12:40 | Lunch |
SESSION 3. River banks and habitat banks Chair: Jason Reeves CEnv MCIEEM, Head of Policy, CIEEM |
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13:40 | De-risking the delivery of off-site watercourse biodiversity units from beaver reintroduction – Dr Eleanore Miles CGeog(Geomorph), Shannon Dicks GradCIWEM, and Ian Morrissey CEnv MCIEEM, AtkinsRéalis |
14:05 | From baseline to bank: delivering Chalksole – Kent’s first habitat bank – Stefanie Bramley MCIEEM, Dover District Council; Liam Mattingly and Vicki Mordue MIoD AIEMA, Biodiverse Consulting |
14:30 | Sustainable river and catchment restoration: exploring BNG opportunities and challenges – Tom Gall, The Rivers Trust |
14:55 | Break |
SESSION 4. Supporting resilient and deliverable BNG Chair: Ben Kite CEcol MCIEEM, Chair of the Strategic Policy Panel, CIEEM |
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15:25 | How and why Biodiversity Net Gain can succeed: the residential home builders’ perspective – Helen Nyul, Barratt Redrow Plc and Neil Beamsley CEcol MCIEEM, Bellway Homes |
15:50 | Aligning habitat bank provision with the LNRS: opportunities and barriers – Karen Lindley, Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment |
16:15 | Designing resilience into Biodiversity Net Gain – learning from the Environment Bank Ecology team – Fleur Wilson ACIEEM and Mike Waller, Environment Bank |
16:40 | Summary and Close |
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