Attendees at last year’s event Valuing Nature Conference 2017 said this was the only meeting that brings together this diverse audience.

• Share research findings and experience of applying Valuing Nature approaches in practice
• Participate in activities and discussions with people with diverse perspectives to help find common ground
• Contribute to development of the future Valuing Nature agenda in the UK and internationally

The Conference will start with lunch at midday on Tuesday 13 November and will finish at 3.30pm on Wednesday 14 November. It will include a light dinner on Tuesday evening.  There is no charge to attend the conference which is funded by the Valuing Nature Programme.

Can the UK be a world leader? Why a new Environment Act is needed now

Date: Wednesday 14 November 2018

Time: 19.00 – 21.00 (pre-event drinks from 18.30, lecture starts at 19.15)

Venue: Blue Lecture Theatre, Newman Building, University of Exeter

This event is hosted by the Devon Wildlife Trust with the University of Exeter.

Event information

Speakers: Tony Juniper CBE and Harry Barton, Chief Executive, Devon Wildlife Trust

Join Tony Juniper, campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and well known British environmentalist as he delivers this public talk to raise awareness about the pressures faced by our natural environment, the current state of nature and how new laws can help us to restore it.

Devon Wildlife Trust’s vison is for a Devon that is rich in all wildlife, where people enjoy and care about the natural world and take steps to safeguard it for the future. CEO, Harry Barton, has worked for nearly twenty five years in the environmental sector. He has a passion for the environment and a particular interest in landscape scale conservation.

This inspiring talk is your chance to have your say and shape the future of the environment.

About Tony Juniper

Tony Juniper CBE is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and a well-known British environmentalist.

For more than 30 years he has worked for change toward a more sustainable society at local, national and international levels. From providing ecology and conservation experiences for primary school children, making the case for new recycling laws, to orchestrating international campaigns for action on rainforests and climate change, his work has sought change at many levels.

Tony is the Executive Director for Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF-UK. He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. In 1990 he began a long period working at Friends of the Earth, initially leading the campaign for the tropical rainforests and in 2003 becoming Executive Director. Tony is the author of many books, including the multi-award winning 2013 best-seller What has Nature ever done for us? His latest book, Rainforest – dispatches from Earth’s most vital frontlines, was published in April 2018. Tony was the first recipient of the Charles and Miriam Rothschild conservation medal (2009) and was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the Universities of Bristol and Plymouth (2013). In 2017 he was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to conservation. On joining WWF in January 2018 Tony remained a Fellow with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and President of the Wildlife Trusts.

For more information and to register please visit the event webpage.

Please email research-events@exeter.ac.uk with any questions about this event.

Programme

18.30 – drinks reception (limited spaces available)

19.00 – registration and networking

19.30 – Tony Juniper talk

20.15 – Q&A hosted by Dr Matt Lobley

20.30 – Call to action followed by a book signing and networking

21.00 – End of event

Venue 

Blue Lecture Theatre, Newman Building, Streatham Campus, Stocker Road, EX4 4QD. 

Newman Building is number 18 on the Streatham Campus map. 

Please visit this page for directions.

Registration

Please register using the ‘register’ link on this page.

If you wish to register without using Eventbrite by email or phone please contact research-events@exeter.ac.uk.

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This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School

Governments, businesses and NGOs are developing new metrics and tools to value and measure social, environmental and economic change in the context of Sustainable Development Goals and planetary health. Current approaches face limitations in addressing temporal and spatial dimensions of natural capital value.

This talk will address emerging methodologies to measure natural capital and enable us to assess and measure ecological services and benefits more fully in economic analysis. The speakers will bring perspectives from the ecological science and economics.

This event will be live webcast via the Oxford Martin School YouTube channel
(Please note you do not need to register to watch live online)

About the speakers

Professor Georgina Mace is Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, and Head of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London.

Prior to joining UCL in 2012, she was Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London from 2006, and before that she worked at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, first as a research fellow (1991 – 2000), and latterly as Director of Science (2000 – 2006).

Her research concerns measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and change with a particular focus on the science and policy interface for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

Ian J. Bateman is a member of the secretariat of the The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health; Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at the University of Exeter, UK. He also holds professorships in Australia and New Zealand and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (awarded 2011 for five years) and is a Member of the H.M. Treasury and UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Natural Capital Committee. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the Environment Agency Long-Term Investment Scenarios Development Group and the NERC Strategic Programme Advisory Group.