23 Jul 2024
From the Seabed User & Developer Group (SUDG): The SUDG and its member industries work closely with regulators and conservation advisers, and there are many examples of good regulatory practice. Nevertheless, opportunities remain for quicker, more proportionate regulation focusing on the most significant environmental impacts of development and making more use of accepted standards and […]
13 Feb 2024
The Seabed User & Developer Group (SUDG), an informal grouping of the UK’s key marine industries, have called on the UK government to put in place a moratorium on the biodiversity metric for intertidal habitats. Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a policy set out in the Environment Act 2021 and on 12 February 2024 it […]
01 Nov 2022
The Seabed User and Developer Group (SUDG) brings together the majority of UK marine industries, including renewable energy, marine aggregates, ports, subsea cables, recreational boating and marinas, oil and gas, nuclear energy, and carbon capture storage and utilisation. The group has written to three Secretaries of State to state they do not recommend moving away […]
07 Dec 2021
Peter Barham ‘There is increasing recognition of the need for greater action to restore the marine environment in the face of a continued decline in marine biodiversity. Net Gain has been identified as a potential development approach that can contribute to halting and reversing biodiversity loss by leaving the natural environment in a measurably better […]
10 Oct 2017
SUDG set out opportunities arising from Brexit SUDG members represent all the key marine industry sectors providing over 900,000 jobs and upwards of 5% GDP. Marine industries are an essential component of the UK economy, central to UK policies on transport and climate change and integral to the Government’s desire to promote Blue Growth. See […]
05 Jun 2017
Seabed User & Developer Group position on Brexit Over the last twenty years the marine industry has worked closely with UK government and its agencies to ensure that legislation delivers sustainable development in increasingly proportionate ways. While it remains challenging at times to get approval for development in the marine environment and more can still […]