{"id":2720,"date":"2011-05-13T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2011-05-13T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:00:19","slug":"environment-bank-eco-credits-progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"Environment Bank &#8216;eco credits&#8217; progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The\u00a0Shell Foundation\u00a0has agreed to fund and provide expertise for the development of conservation credits and other measures by the fledgling Environment Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bank\u00a0has just joined forces with the\u00a0Environment Agency\u00a0to pilot a scheme whereby developers and companies will be able to offset their impact on biodiversity and ecosystems by buying \u2018credits\u2019 to create coastal grazing and sea marshes along theSuffolk\u00a0and Essex coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This concept of \u2018environmental offsets\u2019 will be a feature of the Coalition\u2019s Natural Environment White Paper due later this year and will become a feature of many large and small infrastructure projects in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Search Planning Portal:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2011\/may11\/6may11\/060511_7\" target=\"_blank\"> LINK<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2011\/may11\/6may11\/060511_7\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Shell Foundation\u00a0has agreed to fund and provide expertise for the development of conservation credits and other measures by the fledgling Environment Bank. The Bank\u00a0has just joined forces with the\u00a0Environment Agency\u00a0to pilot a scheme whereby developers and companies will be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}