E168 BNG Round Table: This is Still the First Chapter

Second Nature · Apr 23, 2026 · 1h 18m · transcript

Britain's biodiversity market was two years old when someone tried to kill it. Not deliberately — just through the spectacular collision of political timing, an overloaded planning system, and a regulatory bottleneck that hit at the worst possible moment. In this episode, I sit down with three of the people who were there — Emma Toovey of Environment Bank, Fiona Milden of Oxygen Conservation, and Alexa Culver of RSK — the day after the Land Use Framework dropped, for the most honest conversation BNG has ever had on record.

We get into why developers actually championed this policy — and then…