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🏡💧Did you know your UK home is more likely to be flooded than burgled? Our economy depends on Nature, but we need to value it correctly. Investing in Nature's ecosystem services—flood protection, drought reduction, water purification, and more—is critical for solving climate and biodiversity crises. 💡 Redirecting capital to protect and restore Nature can drive a thriving nature-based economy with tangible financial returns and resilience against climate risks. Nature as a Service (NaaS) enables companies to pay for Nature's services, generating financial returns and promoting sustainable business practices. NaaS contracts offer attractive returns while combating climate change and nature loss. 🌱🌍 💰🇬🇧 Shifting just 2% from UK pension funds could generate GBP50-100 billion for nature restoration, reduce business risks, and create a UK world worth living in. 🌿 It's time to value Nature as critical infrastructure. Nature Means Business: Invest in Our Planet’s Most Valuable Assets 🌍 #NatureMeansBusiness #SustainableInvesting #EcosystemServices #ClimateAction #RebalanceEarth #NatureRestoration #BusinessResilience #GreenEconomy #2PercentForNature #Adaptation #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience #DARWIN #InvestInNature #NatureAsAService #NatureBasedSolutions #NatureInfrastructure #ProtectAndRestore #Resilience #WorldWorthLivingIn 💚 https://lnkd.in/ev4VRJt7

We must consider all towns and cities as sponges. To mitigate floods, droughts and climate change. And enhance liveability. Although the Sponge City approach isn't new, the challenge is in working #transdisciplinary and integrate #WaterManagement, #TownPlanning and "climate risk-informed" #DecisionMaking. Not only we are embracing the #SpongeCity approach in the Netherlands, such as #Rotterdam and #Zwolle, but also building capacity through the "China Europe Cooperation on Sponge Cities" #CECoSC as part of the China Europe Water Platform. Other EU fundend research projects which include Sponge Cities are #NBRACER, #SpongeScapes, #DroBE a.o.

Pleased to see the latest issue of The #EnvironmentMagazine from CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) examining the theme of future cities with a particular focus on London. Timely, as the new government is developing a national industrial strategy to help places thrive. The #LocalGrowthPlans that will inform it are an opportunity to ensure much needed investment in infrastructure is underpinned by #climateresilience.   Seizing this opportunity has the potential to make the UK a leader in an innovative and high growth sector and can lead the way globally as the world deals with climate impacts. London has the potential to be a trailblazer for the UK on urban adaptation. The #LondonClimateResilienceReview sets out a clear pathway to achieve this, and calls for  more nature into cities to soak up urban flood water and cool neighbourhoods, combatting both dangerous flash flooding and deadly extreme heat. Ashok Sinha Ashden Sue Wheat Johanna Sutton George Leigh London Sustainable Development Commission Mete Coban MBE Catherine Barber Pete Daw London Climate Ready Partnership Bob Ward https://lnkd.in/eeBuU6UZ

Confor: Confederation of Forest Industries (UK), The Woodland Trust, The Tree Council, and Trees for Cities urge the new UK Government to invest in tree planting and address timber security, climate change, and woodland management challenges For in-depth woodnews and updates https://lnkd.in/gunNSrbZ #1woodworkingnews #bestwoodmagazine Confor: Confederation of Forest Industries (UK) #woodandpanel #woodworkingandmanufacturing #woodworkingandprocessing #woodworkingindustry #woodworkingnews

"Success for peatlands hinges on several crucial factors, namely leveraging public and private funding, securing supportive policies, investing in research and innovation and meaningful community engagement." 🌱 In the Yorkshire Post, our MD Betsy Glasgow-Vasey champions the value of peatland restoration, arguing for more support and recognition around this critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Check it out below. ✅ #peatlands #restoration #climatechange #yorkshirepost #climaterepair #communities #environment #economy #emissions

Sustainable development in the strata industry means creating shared communities and managing shared properties with a focus on long-term balance between economic, social, and environmental aspects. In the face of escalating climate change concerns, the urgency of integrating sustainable development within the strata industry has never been more urgent. Read the article from CHU Underwriting Agencies Pty Ltd of advancing sustainable development in the #Strata Industry: https://ow.ly/oHgl50QtRe3

A good news story?🤞 I read this article yesterday and started with a spring in my step….. 🏃♀️ A record 10,000+ hectares of damaged and degraded #Peatland was restored in Scotland over the past 12 months, through 100+ projects, meaning the average annual rate of #PeatlandRestoration has more than doubled within just two years 🎉 And peatlands really matter! They cover 10% of the UK land area and should act as critical carbon stores and flood defences 💪 Yet a shocking 80% of UK peatlands are estimated to be degraded. Scotland’s peatlands are so degraded they have switched from being #CarbonSinks to #CarbonSources and now account for 15% of Scotland’s #Emissions 😢 It’s clear there is increasing private and government investment in peatland restoration as a critical #Climate lever. But The Climate Change Committee (CCC), estimates that peatland restoration should reach 67,000 hectares a year by 2025 - that’s next year!! Hope we can get our skates on 🚨 What can individuals do in the meantime? Avoid buying #Peat compost for your garden! The government was supposed to introduce a ban this year on domestic use of peat but a quick bit of digging suggests it still looks to be in question 🤦♀️ #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Great piece by Jacob Evans on BBC News which asks whether London should become a #SpongeCity. The package shows how creating urban areas that absorb water reduces #floodrisk, and in the soon to be launched final report of the #LondonClimateResilienceReview we explore many other benefits. In England, if no action is taken by 2050 the nation’s public water supply will face a shortfall of 5 billion litres of water per day. Holding water for longer, rather than simply flushing it through the sewage system, helps reduce #drought risks and is good for #waterquality. It can also support wildlife, biodiversity and create parks and spaces for communities to enjoy. It's a win win win. More in the article: https://lnkd.in/ecvjuDwt Alastair Chisholm CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) Dr Mark Fletcher FREng Arup Dr Elizabeth Rapoport Charlotte Wood London Wildlife Trust Pete Daw Sachin Bhoite George Leigh Johanna Sutton London Climate Change Partnership (LCCP) London Sustainable Development Commission London Climate Action Week

Hear latest updates from Australian, NT, Qld and WA Governments on recent developments in fire and carbon, followed by a moderated discussion on key challenges and priorities for 2024 and beyond facilitated by ICIN Co-Chair Cissy Gore-Birch. 🔥 North Australia Savanna Fire Forum 📅 20-22 February, 2024, Larrakia Country, Darwin Convention Centre Speakers: - Kenneth Baulch, Senior Policy Officer, Environment Division, Office of Climate Change, Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security, Northern Territory Government - Daisy Goodwin, Project Manager, Aboriginal Economic Development unit, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - John Prescott, Principal Program Officer, Land Restoration Fund, Queensland Government - Megan Surawski, Manager, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) - Renee Gonlag, Senior Regulatory Officer, Clean Energy Regulator Secure your ticket today 👉 https://lnkd.in/gaYWPThh #climatechange #indigenousknowledge #indigenouspeoples #carbonmarkets #carbonfarming #climatejustice #environmentaljustice #healthyCountry #indigenousleadership #Climate #AusPol #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #NetZero #ZeroEmissions #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience

Rewilding nature as part of #Deepadaptation, I suppose. Once this pitiful civilization is finished, there needs to be a lot of substance, that recreates the ecological #balance between various systems, a balance that #mankind sophistically and very scientifically managed to destroy over the course of just a few centuries. It is erroneous to think, that #money will help mankind to get a solid grip on fighting climate change. Neither money nor politicians nor economists caused the problems that we are facing. Climate change is clearly the result of hundreds of human-induced daily activities, activities that start in the morning when the alarm goes off and they don't even stop, when we turn off the TV before going to bed. Lets take 1650. Worldwide, about 500 million collaborated rather innocently and unconsciously in damaging #nature. Their activities back then were not as disastrous as ours today. A simple example is, that many lived in areas they should have never conquered, because to heat their houses, they needed to burn a lump of #coal. Wrong, as no other mammal does it. That the burning of a lump of coal would later become the driving force of an #economy, which did not only provide for our basic needs, but more so for the satisfaction of unnecessary and ridiculous wants, that certainly nobody envisaged. Our focus always was and is until today: "Everything must be convenient and efficient!" We put on the #kettle, the #toaster, the coffe-machine, the #microwave, the radio, the #smartphone, the washing machine, the tumble dryer, the iron, we use #cars, #buses, #trains and #aircrafts, we use heating systems and air conditioning systems, we use e-cars and e-scooters - gosh this list seems endless! (haven't seen lately neither a #dog, #cat, #giraffe nor a #lion doing anything like that - have you?) Living once again in #harmony with nature means, to eliminate activities that have any negative impacts on any system that our welbeing is linked to. As nobody is prepared to reverse neither the way we think nor the way we act, the scale of inevitable results look more than catastrophic. The result is, as in 1650, an innocent and unconscious collaboration at large. Because today, in 2024, the daily quantity and quality of environmentally damaging as well as resource-depleting activities of each individual must be multiplied not only by a factor of 500 million, but already by 8.1 billion, that is 16 times as many! Socio-economic constraints; the underlying economic model; the way our society has evolved and the scale of human imperfections are enough to consider when concluding, that mankind unknowingly has gone way too far. We are but a mammal, a naked ape. Who knows today what the biological origin of the next #civilization will be, that this #planet will carry, until it too will vanish. +++ #climatechange #netzero #sustainability #environment #fridaysforfuture #greenpeace #bigoil #comfort #CO2 #water #electricity #waste