Session 1: Keynote Session
Guy Duke, Business Champion, VNP Coordination Team - Introduction to the conference
Sir Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive NERC - Keynote 1
Sir Ian Cheshire, Chair Barclays Bank UK PLC - Keynote 2
Alastair Johnson, Senior Economic Advisor, Defra - Overview of the Policy Environment
Sir Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford - Keynote 4
Session 2: Business impact under the VNP
Guy Duke, Business Champion, VNP Coordination Team - Overview
Business-related output from VNP projects:
- Mark Reed, Research England & N8 funded Chair of Socio-Technical Innovation, Newcastle University - Integrating markets for ecosystem services
- Jack Benton, PhD Researcher, Manchester University - Measuring wellbeing from your nature-based interventions
BNP Business Impact School alumni:
- Prue Addison, Conservation Strategy Director, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust and Research Associate
- Eleanor Tew, Forest Resilience Programme Manager, Forestry England
- Gemma Jerome, Director, Building With Nature
VNP Business Placements:
- Colm Bowe, Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University - Strategies for businesses to engage and inform UK food and farming policy to ensure natural capital is an integral part
Victoria Janes-Bassett, Senior Research Associate, Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University - VNP Synthesis Report: Soil natural capital valuation needs for agri-business
Emma Rothero, Partnership Manager, Floodplains, Meadows Partnership - VNP Synthesis Report: Natural capial of floodplains as a function of land use
Rose Pritchard, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Sheffield Institute for International Developtment - VNP Synthesis Report: Early adoption of natural capial in the private sector
Ece Ozdemiroglu, Economics Lead, VNP Coordination Team - VNP Demystifying papers on Green Finance, Economic Analysis, and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Session 3: Towards a Natural Assets Research and Innovation Agenda
Guy Duke - Introduction
The R&I needs of three key sectors:
- Chris Plester, Senior Sustainability Adviser, National Grid - Infrastructure
- Andrew Griffiths, Head of Value Chain Sustainability at Nestle UK&I - Land management
- Robin Smale, Director, Vivid Economics - Insurance/finance
Guy Duke - Overview: emerging R&I priorities, policy alignment and appetite to engage, delivery options