Conservation charity ZSL and British Ecological Society argue changes to land use can bring benefits to climate, nature, and people

Large-scale government-driven changes to land use across agriculture, housing, and energy could restore biodiversity and tackle climate change while at the same time providing a “wealth of benefits” to people, a new report has claimed.

That is the headline recommendation of a new study published today by international conservation charity Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the British Ecological Society (BES), which outlines both the benefits of a coordinated approach to transforming how land is used across the country as well as how changes can be achieved at scale by the next UK government.