Biodiversity: why new rules to ensure nature benefits from building projects could fail

By Sophus zu Ermgassen, PhD Researcher, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford
Joseph William Bull, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Kent

The UK government is making serious investments in new infrastructure as part of its post-pandemic recovery strategy, with £27 billion committed to road expansion, and a target of building an additional 300,000 homes per year. But it also has ambitious targets to halt…

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