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Major new UKRI-funded consortium ‘Land Use for Net Zero’ (LUNZ) hub, co-led by The James Hutton Institute and the University of Leicester, and including Agile Sprint researcher Alison Smith, started to help the four UK administrations address greenhouse gas emissions from land use and agriculture.

On 22 November 2023 the Agile Initiative ran a day-long event to showcase its approach to conducting rapid, high-quality, policy-focused interdisciplinary research, and generate debate around addressing challenges and emerging trends in the UK and globally that will influence this form of research.

The Scottish Government have awarded follow-on funding to explore the potential to deliver multiple goods and services from the Scottish landscape, to meet the need for sustainably produced food, timber, energy and water, helping to achieve net zero and prevent further biodiversity loss.

At the NERC Awards ceremony on 29th November 2023, Dr Sophus zu Ermgassen was announced the winner of the Early Career Impact award.

The Agile Initiative and the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery are pleased to launch the Recipe for Engagement (RfE), a new versatile guide designed to empower practitioners and decision-makers who aim to develop more inclusive, meaningful and impactful public and stakeholder engagement strategies.

Seagrass protection and restoration would provide valuable carbon removal and storage, alongside substantial benefits for people and nature, but more needs to be done to encourage this through policy and nature financing.

New research has been published this week which finds that Brazil needs to centre nature-based solutions and deforestation in order to reach its net zero targets.

In September, Nat Duffus presented a quick guide for planners and developers on assessing biodiversity net gain plans to the University of Oxford Biodiversity Sub-Group. This guide was produced by the Agile Initiative sprint “How do we account for biodiversity?”