July 2013
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This seminar offered delegates the opportunity to consider the next steps in the development and implementation of policy to enhance biodiversity and the natural environment.
With the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs having set out a number of specific objectives in its Biodiversity 2020 strategy, sessions focused on the economic, logistical and practical challenges in achieving them. Delegates also assessed the work of the Natural Capital Committee in preparing its first State of Natural Capital Report and the final report by the Ecosystem Markets Task Force on the fundamental importance of the natural environment to businesses.
Further sessions explored the importance of the country's forests and woodlands sector in light of the Government's response to the Independent Panel on Forestry's report on rethinking the benefits provided by the UK's woodlands.
Discussion also orientated around the international community's efforts to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and meet the Aichi 2020 targets, with commitments having been made by the developed nations to double the funding provided for safeguarding biodiversity internationally.
