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Leicestershire County Council

…. Biodiversity, Habitats and Local Environment G. Protect and enhance biodiversity as a natural capital asset throughout all our activities and seek to ensure that we achieve biodiversity net gain on our own land and influence improvements in the wider county G1. Improve the biodiversity value and condition of natural capital features on Council managed land and assets. G4. Work with partners…

… change • Policy decisions • Use of goods & services • Use of fleet & contractor vehicles • Staff commuting • Business mileage travelled by staff • Public health issues • Resource depletion • Extreme weather • Flooding • Changes in ecology & landscape • Loss of heritage sites • Waste • Biodiversity loss • Energy use in buildings • Energy use for street & traffic lighting • Building…

… the valuable contribution that the natural environment makes to the economy particularly the rural, leisure and tourism economies. By supporting work to reduce biodiversity loss and increase biodiversity where possible and therefore supporting the local agriculture and food industries that depend on biodiversity. By identifying business opportunities that will arise from the move towards a circular…

… with a pollution event; and • The Council has a responsibility to avoid or minimise the nuisance caused to local people by its actions. Biodiversity There has been a major • The Council has a statutory responsibility Loss increase in the scale of biodiversity loss caused mainly by climate change, deforestation and habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species, pesticides and pollution…

… and biodiversity and waste and resource efficiency as the four priority areas which will each have legally binding targets. The 2019 State of Nature report pools data and expertise from over 50 nature conservation and research organisations and gives a cutting edge overview of the state of nature in the UK. Its conclusions include that since 1970: • 15% of species are under threat of extinction…