Speakers were drawn from the VNP Business Interest Group and other relevant businesses and business initiatives at the forefront of innovation related to valuing nature. Individual presentations may be found at the links below:
Setting the Scene
- Introduction to BIS3, opportunities for business to protect and/or value nature – Guy Duke, Director, GD NatCap Ltd, Business Champion, Valuing Nature Programme and PI, Ecosystem Markets Task Force
- NERC Innovation: enhancing the impact of NERC’s research investments – Emily Flowers, Senior Programme Manager (Innovation), NERC
- Business case for investing in our natural assets - Peter Young, Trustee, Green Purposes Company Ltd and Founding Director & Chair, Aldersgate Group
Finance Sector
Valuing environmental capital in long-term finance and investing - where do we start? – Andrew Cave, Head of Corporate Governance, Baillie Gifford
Energy Sector
Ten things you didn’t know about mitigation – Grant Douglas, Environmental Planner, SP Energy Networks
Land Management
- Valuing natural capital and added value – a perspective from Crown Estate Scotland – Andy Wells, Head of Property, Crown Estate Scotland
- Powerful partnerships – Morag Garden, Head of Sustainability & Innovation, Scotch Whisky Association
Regulation (Hands on session)
One Planet Prosperity: a 21st Century approach to regulation – Nicola Melville, Senior Scientist, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Energy Sector, information/software
- To bury or not to bury, the £300 million question – George Cobb, Group Sustainability Accountant, SSE
- Can valuation inform public resourcing of forest protection and monitoring? – Richard Tipper, Executive Chairman, Ecometrica with Timothy Kelly, University of Edinburgh and Dan Van der Horst, Reader in Environment and Society, University of Edinburgh
Water Utilities, Land Management
- Delivering better outcomes for our customers and the environment? Natural and Social Capital Accounting in the water sector – Mark Williams, Head of Environmental Science and Regulation, Scottish Water
- A New Nature Economy – possible, desirable, essential? – Mat Roberts, Group Director of Environmental Strategy, Interserve PLC
Knowledge Exchange with Business (Hands on session)
Maps and empathy: communicating your research – Ece Ozdemiroglu, Director, eftec
Finance Sector
The Green Investment Group: what green means to us – Emma Knight-Strong, Manager, Sustainable Finance, Green Investment Group