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Training and Funding
Policy Training and Funding Interested in learning more about how your science can inform policy? Do you want to experience policy-making first hand? Graduate Join the BES External Affairs Team as an intern for up to three months and gain invaluable experience … Continue reading
Consultation Responses
Responses to Consultations and Inquiries 2013 Consultation on science and research funding priorities for the spending review [Adobe PDF, 74 Kb] Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Link to original consultation) May 2013 Consultation on the Triennial Review of the … Continue reading
Richard Benyon MP gives evidence to Efra Select Committee on the Natural Environment White Paper
In an Efra Select Committee hearing on Wednesday (18th April), Richard Benyon MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment and Fisheries answered the panel’s queries into the measures outlined in the Government’s Natural Environment White Paper (NEWP), published … Continue reading
Biodiversity offsetting: making nature economically visible
Biodiversity offsetting is a method intended to help compensate for the detrimental impacts of development on biodiversity. Such an approach is designed to work by creating a credit based market that developers could use to offset actions deemed harmful to … Continue reading
New Parliamentary Select Committee Chairs announced
Nominations from within each party for Select Committees chair-person roles closed on June 9th, when the unopposed candidates took their seats on the newly re-formed committees. The elections for the committees where a contest was needed went ahead this Wednesday … Continue reading