Our Approach
Whether you are looking to supply land for habitat creation, purchase Biodiversity Net Gain units, nature-restoration credits, or work with us from a Local Authority perspective, GNCF guarantees to:
- Focus on strategic nature recovery, through the creation and sale of offsite biodiversity units
- Select schemes from within the Gloucestershire Nature Recovery Network, mapped by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Adhere to the ecological principles of ‘bigger, better, more and joined’
- Work to the latest industry good practice principles.
Biodiversity Net Gain
The Gloucestershire Nature + Climate Fund is a provider of high-quality offsite biodiversity net gain (BNG) units, placing them where their accumulation has the most positive impact for nature restoration.
- GNCF works closely with the Gloucestershire Local Planning Authorities and is a trusted supplier of BNG units. We liaise with the LPAs to ensure all BNG legal requirements are met and purchased units are registered and allocated.
- All of our schemes are independently monitored and reported on over the 30 year BNG period.
- As a not-for-profit, any surplus to running costs will be put into a Trust and used for independent nature recovery projects for Gloucestershire, meaning your investment for nature goes even further.
- A minimum of 10% biodiversity net gain is required per site
- Calculations of BNG units will be made using the Defra Biodiversity Metric
- The local planning authority will have to approve the developers’ net gain plan
- New/improved habitat must be secured for at least 30 years
- Habitat can be delivered on-site, off-site, or (as a last resort) via statutory biodiversity credits
- There will be a national register for net gain delivery sites
- The mitigation hierarchy still applies of avoidance, mitigation and compensation for biodiversity loss
- BNG legislation will also apply to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) from 2025
- Existing legal environmental and wildlife protections remain unchanged
Nature Markets Principles
The Nature Markets Principles are the gold standard in offsite biodiversity net gain and other green financing mechanisms.
Developed by The Wildlife Trusts, National Trust, RSPB, Woodland Trust, Finance Earth and Federated Hermes Ltd, they are a set of voluntary principles, which means that companies need to actively choose to implement them. At GNCF, the Nature Markets Principles are fundamental to how we operate and are the guiding principles of our work.
The aim of the principles is to “support the development and long-term operation of high-integrity, high quality and high impact UK markets for nature restoration and enhancement.” They are designed to influence market practice and contribute to emerging policy.
Contact
c/o Harrison Clark Rickerbys, Ellenborough House, Wellington Street,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 1YD
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 1YD
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Registered in England company number 13662489
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