The UK government’s Autumn Budget came out soon after COP16 on Biodiversity last month. Tom Raven, a Consultant in Eunomia’s Natural Economy team, reflects on whether private finance options can make up for the lack of funding from government and international inaction on financing nature recovery. How nature fared in [...]
We are proud to be working with over 30 leading academic research organisations and consultancies as part of the Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub. This three-year programme, co-funded by UKRI, Defra and DESNZ, brings stakeholders together to drive the transformation of UK land use to reach net zero [...]
As an environmentally-driven organisation, we encourage minimal travel, are geared up for the remote working of our staff and have regular meetings online. In the current situation, this experience gave us the confidence required to replace a full-day European Commission stakeholder engagement workshop in Brussels, with a 2-hour interactive webinar [...]
We have won a bid to undertake a Defra-funded research project investigating the development of models for farmer and land manager behaviours and decision-making. The UK’s exit from the European Union, and subsequent withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), will give the UK the ability to design and implement [...]
Diffuse pollution from farming could reverse improvements in drinking water quality, the condition of rivers and the quality of bathing waters, despite the billions of pounds invested by water companies. Brexit brings uncertainties about agricultural policies and subsidies that mean more farmers are focusing on the short term. As financial [...]