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Hannah Sheridan

Hannah Sheridan

Senior Ecologist at Arup specializing in marine and terrestrial environmental impact assessment and biodiversity conservation in Ireland and the UK.

Jul 9, 2026

23:24
What happened?
23:25
Yeah, so it was about over two years ago, we were commissioned to basically do a bit of a research into what is going on in terms of biodiversity accountancy and to try and develop up a bit of a methodology that could be applied to projects under like DAI phases.
23:42
And part of that was actually researching, okay, what's going on internationally? How are biodiversity metrics used? What are they for? What's the pitfalls? What's the good things all about them? So that formed part of our literature review, which is available and there will be things available that I'm sure we can put into the links in the page afterwards.
24:01
But we basically found out that there are a suite of international metrics going on and some are really good and some are not really good.
24:10
Some of them are very fixated on certain aspects.
24:12
Some of them are very broad in general.
24:13
But the one thing we kept coming back to was actually the statutory metric in England is one of the best ones because it's quite broad.

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29:41
And have you said you're getting feedback on it? Have you heard from people that are using it, you know, that have started using it? And yeah, what are you hearing back?

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