The Environmental Audit Committee will be holding a further
evidence session as part of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems
inquiry.
This session will consider the economics of biodiversity,
nature-based solutions and mainstreaming biodiversity into trade
and development policy and private sector operations.
The first panel examines the economics of biodiversity prompted
by Sir Partha Dasgupta’s review of the subject which is due to be
published in January. The second panel asks private sector actors
how they can contribute to biodiversity restoration. The
Committee will be hearing from Associated British Foods (ABF) one
of the UK’s largest FTSE 100 companies, with global supply chains
in 53 countries; Mott MacDonald, one of DFID’s largest
contractors for development projects; and Professor David Hill,
CEO of the Environment Bank who introduced the biodiversity net
gain concept to the UK. The last panel examines nature-based
solutions to climate change, a concept which is seen to best link
climate change and biodiversity action.
Witnesses from 14:30
- Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor
Emeritus, University of Cambridge, Lead on HMT Economics of
Biodiversity Review.
Witnesses from 15:15
- Professor David Hill CBE, Chairman, Environment Bank
- Dr Mihai Coroi, Ecology Technical Principal, Mott Macdonald
- David Webster, Director of Sustainability & External
Affairs at Associated British Foods UK Grocery
Witnesses from 16:00
- Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity, University of
Oxford and founder of Nature-based Solutions Initiative
- Martin Harper, Director of Global Conservation, RSPB
