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Generic Actions
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Funding
The London Biodiversity Action Plan process, whilst ambitious
and aspirational, should also be based on the achievable.
Although much can be done to implement biodiversity action
by working within existing and shared resources, there is
no doubt that many individual actions will require additional,
external funding.
Funding sources may include programmes for environmental improvement
that are already established in London. For example, government
funded agri-environment schemes can deliver biodiversity benefits,
but there may be the need for some of these programmes to
give greater weight to urban habitats in order to be applicable
to a wider range of action. Urban regeneration funding has
the potential to provide environmental improvements but is
currently seldom linked to biodiversity conservation. Lottery
grants have already funded projects within individual action
plans, and they continue to be a potential source for further
funding.
A large number of infrastructure and regeneration initiatives
will take place in London over the next few years, and many
of these will have potential to contribute to biodiversity
conservation and sustainable development. The London Biodiversity
Action Plan needs to be taken into account in these initiatives
and resources should be devoted to the programme of action
identified by the Partnership.
A funding strategy for the Partnership's habitat and species
action plans was published in 2003, which outlines the anticipated
costs of the various actions. The strategy is intended to
be a springboard to external funding streams, and will require
regular review as new sources of funding become available
and new actions are produced.
The Partnership expects that this strategic approach will
help to enable projects in many parts of London, thereby also
increasing the resources available to local biodiversity partnerships.
Objectives, Actions and Targets
Objective: To maintain a funding strategy
which identifies actions that require external funding and
makes proposals for increasing funding availability.
Target 1: Funding Strategy annually reviewed.
| Action |
Target Date |
Lead |
Other Partners |
| 1.1 Assess the costs of individual actions within the
action plans where appropriate to securing additional
funding |
Achieved |
GLA |
EN, EA, LWT, LA, BTCV |
| 1.2 Update funding strategy |
Annual |
Management Working Group |
HSD group and action plan leads |
Target 2: To seek new funding
opportunities to implement the action plans.
| Action |
Target Date |
Lead |
Other Partners |
| 1.3 Pilot a 'biodiversity champions' scheme with potential
business partners |
2004 |
Management working group |
London's business community |
| 1.4 Promote the funding strategy to appropriate funding
bodies, whilst collating funding criteria and grant timetables |
Review Annually |
GLA |
Management working group, all partners |
| 1.5 Produce a business plan for the Partnership through
participation and consultation with partners |
2004 |
Management working group |
All partners |
1.
Site management, 2.
Habitat protection, 3.
Species protection, 4.
Ecological Monitoring,
5. Biological recording,
6. Communications,
7. Funding, 8.
Built Structures
Download the full Generic
Actions document in pdf
or text
format
Related documents:
•LBP's
Funding Strategy - Action for Biodiversity: Meeting the cost
Moving Forward - London Biodiversity Partnership Business Plan
2004-2009
Action
for Biodiversity - Supporting the London Biodiversity Action
Plan 2005
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