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February 2025

In this month's newsletter:


  • Kerry ten Kate: our envecon keynote speaker

    • early bird sales ending February 14

  • envecon 2025: early bird tickets now open

    • Secure your early-bird prices now

  • News & Opportunities

    • envecon paper makes the news, PhD Studentship, nature markets consultation



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envecon Keynote Announcement


An image of Kerry ten Kate, envecon 2025 keynote speaker
An image of Kerry ten Kate, envecon 2025 keynote speaker

Kerry ten Kate is an independent consultant, advising governments, companies and civil society organisations on how best to integrate the natural environment into economic decision-making. She is a non-executive board member of Finance Earth and chairs the Strategic Advisory Group on Nature Investment Standards for the British Standards Institution. She is a trustee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, where she chairs the Conservation Committee. Kerry is a member of the Aldersgate Group, Conservation Fellow at the Zoological Society of London and a member of IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystems Management. 


Kerry was on the board of Natural England and a member of the Natural Capital Committee. Formerly a barrister, she served on the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 (the 'Rio Earth Summit'). She founded and directed the international Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) at Forest Trends, in which 100 organisations worked over fifteen years towards ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’. She was policy adviser at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Director of Investor Responsibility at asset manager Insight Investment.


Early bird ticket sales for envecon end February 14th: get yours here.

Our Next Webinar, Feb 26:

The Value of Non-Financial Reporting to UK Investors

Up to £26 Billion annual value for current non-financial information

There are increasing regulations and calls for companies to provide more and better non-financial information (e.g. CSRD, TNFD, ISSB). A key driver of this increased pressure is that non-financial information (NFI) and non-financial reporting (NFR) is assumed to improve investment decisions and assessments of risks and company performance. Indeed, there are many studies noting the increasing usage of NFI in investor decision-making, but there are very few that quantify the value of this information. This study provides this evidence. 


Join our webinar on February 26th, 12:15 - 13:15 GMT, to see how we estimated that current UK NFR requirements are worth up to £26 billion per year to investors and how proposals to improve the quality and comparability of NFI across companies could increase the value of NFR by an additional £6 billion to £16 billion per year.


Click here to register 



Updates, News, & Opportunities

Consultations, Jobs, Conferences, Publications & Responses to the Chancellor's Speech


Consultations: 

Jobs & Presentation Opportunities 

  • Assistant Professor, Rural and Agricultural Economics, University of Cambridge: Link

  • Submissions open for European Association of Agricultural Economics 50th Congress: Link


Publications  

  • IPBES Nexus Assessment about to be published. Policy Summary available: Link

  • January's UKNEE webinar, 'The Tragedy of the Common Heating Bill', is now available for UKNEE members to watch on our site and the working paper can be found here: Link 


Responses to Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Speech on Growth: 

  • New Economics Foundation: Analysis of a Heathrow 3rd Runway's impact on Carbon Emissions (link), policy briefing on the runway & growth (link)

  • Green Alliance debrief event (video) 

  • Wildlife & Countryside Link response: Link

  • Aldersgate Group response: Link

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