Last week I had a great trip to Bangor in North Wales for the Network of European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) Conference. I was there to talk about the Valuing Nature Network and you can see me talking here.
How much natural resource can a company use? How do they take into account environmental limits, community needs and meet regulations whilst remaining profitable?
Yesterday I took part in a very enjoyable workshop, alongside business leaders from well-known brands, to understand how businesses can use practical tools from the ‘Right Value for Externalities Collaboration’ to help answer these questions.
Pollinator decline is a complex challenge. There are many interacting threats, differing patterns of decline, and no obvious single solution. But here are FOUR actions for pollinators that we can all agree on.
I'm very much looking forward to going to Bristol on Wednesday to take part in a workshop organised by the lovely people at the Ecosystems Knowledge Network on 'Applying payments for ecosystem services in practice'.
Along with my collague Professor Brett Day from the UEA, we're going to talk to people from wildlife trusts and local councils about the project that we ran last summer down in Cornwall, with South West Water and the Westcountry Rivers Trust.
The Welsh Government has published its draft Action Plan for Pollinators. This is a brilliant initiative and one that I really hope other Governments will emulate. Here is my view on its best points and areas for improvement.
Summary
Yesterday (26 March 2013), Defra published its field research on the effects of neonicotinoids on bumblebee colonies (Thompson et al 2013). Here is my understanding of the results.
Author - Professor Ian Bateman, Professor & Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment