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August 2024

In this month's newsletter:


  • IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment

  • Research and News that Caught Our Eye

    • Bottle-caps, adaptation, salmon, and water research 

  • Presenting at envecon: Who and What to Expect 

 

Notice:

Due to a clash with the announcement of the autumn statement, our webinar:

'The First 100 days: Panel Discussion on the Progress of the Labour Government"

has been moved from October 30 to November 6

 

IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment:

External Review Launched & Our Webinar on August 28



In late July, IPBES opened the external review of their upcoming Business and Biodiversity Assessment.


In just two week’s time, we’ll be welcoming members of the team to a webinar to discuss this assessment and the review process. You can register for this webinar here.


The project aims to categorize how businesses depend on, and impact, biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people and to identify criteria and indicators for measuring that dependence and impact, taking into consideration how such metrics can be integrated into other aspects of sustainability.


The review is open until 17th September, so you can you submit your thoughts now or wait until after our webinar on Wednesday 28th August.

 

Research and News that Caught Our Eye


Battle of the bottle caps

  • In July 2024, the EU’s Single-Use Plastics Directive mandated tethered bottle caps across the EU (with manufacturing changes affecting the UK and other countries too). These have caused a storm on social media, with many people complaining of their inconvenience.


Removing development incentives in risky areas promotes climate adaptation

  • A new paper published by Druckenmiller et al. suggests that as natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity with climate change, limiting the populations and properties in harm’s way will be key to adaptation.


Salmon fishing in Scotland: climate change takes its toll on the UK’s largest food export market

  • The Scottish salmon industry was worth more than £1 billion in 2023, supporting 12,000 jobs. Yet, the changing climate is leading to mass premature deaths of salmon, with 17 million salmon having died in Scotland in the last year. Reported by the economist and the BBC.


Australian economic consultancies accused of providing 'low-quality research' on water policy


 

Presenting at envecon:

Who Will Be There and What to Expect



Given the recent announcement of our call for papers for envecon 2025, we thought we’d give an idea of who you can expect to be there and what a day at envecon is like.


In the image, you can see a breakdown of the attendee’s sectors and regions of influence from the 2024 conference. It shows how truly multi-sectoral the envecon audience is, with an influence that spans far beyond the UK. With our single-session format, you are guaranteed to have the full engagement of this large and varied audience.


All this takes place in an historic, prestigious, and stunning venue: The Royal Society.

When you aren’t presenting, you’ll be listening to cutting-edge research and networking with brilliant people at all stages of their career, both throughout the day and at the evening reception.


The atmosphere is second-to-none, but that is best portrayed through the feedback we’ve received:


“excellent speakers that made me optimistic about the future”


“the standard of presentations and chairing was one of the best I can remember”


“a professional highlight in my calendar” 


“excellent all round”  “a wonderful location”  “brilliant!”


We are incredibly excited for next year’s conference and sincerely look forward to receiving your submissions. Deadline is November 17th, 2024: apply here.

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