In this month's newsletter:

• Panel Announcement for our Next Webinar

  • Discussing the budget and first 100 days under Labour

• Mainstreaming Nature Positive Economics

  • Event at the LSE, Monday October 14

• News That Caught Our Eye

Announcing the Panel for Our 100 Days of Labour Webinar

Kathryn Brown OBE, Dr Marie-Laurie Hicks, Dr Teresa Domenech Aparisi

We're excited to announce the panel for our upcoming webinar, in which we will give initial reactions and insight to the first few months of the Labour government including reactions to the Autumn Budget on October 30 from a climate and nature perspective. 

Our Panellists are: 

Kathryn Brown OBE

Director of Climate Change and Evidence, The Wildlife Trusts

Dr Marie-Laurie Hicks

Head of Policy, Aldersgate Group

Dr Teresa Domenech Aparisi

Assoc. Professor in Industrial Ecology and the Circular Economy, UCL

As this panel meets, CBD COP16 will be underway in Colombia, the US electorate will have decided their next President, and preparations for COP29 November 11th will be underway. Against this backdrop of change and uncertainty, our panellists will discuss the progress and direction of the UK's Labour government in tackling the climate and nature crises on the domestic and international stage: giving insight into their perspective from their relevant areas of expertise before opening up to discussion.

Click Here to Register

The webinar will run from 12:00 - 13:30 on November 6. 

Mainstreaming Nature Positive Economics for People and Planet

Event at the LSE, October 14

For those of you who are London-based or may be passing through, consider joining this event at the LSE on October 14. 

We need to change the way economies operate, moving away from models that draw unsustainably from nature to models that reduce those demands to be aligned with the ability of nature to replenish itself. Put simply, we need nature positive thinking embedded in economic policy decision-making at the very highest levels.

Join Beccy Speight, CEO of the UK’s largest conservation NGO, The RSPB, her colleague Dougie Peedle, and Elena Almeida and Simon Dikau from The Grantham Institute at LSE in the run-up to COP16 as they explore where we are, what’s working and what needs to change drawing on the panel's policy expertise and knowledge of global nature conservation of species and habitats.

The event starts at 6pm, with networking reception after the panel. Attendance is free. Register at the link above. 

News that Caught Our Eye this Month

It's been a month of extreme weather around the globe, with landslides and floods in Nepal and Nigeria, Hurricanes in the US, Typhoons in China, severe drought in the Amazon, massive crop failure in Romania, and the wettest September in over 100 years in Southern England.

International diplomacy around climate and nature continues, with a new UN pact being adopted that reaffirms plans to transition away from fossil fuels. Biodiversity COP16 will begin on October 21: a useful tracker can be found here.

While Australia recently extended approval of three coal mines for the next 30-40 years, the situation in the UK is more optimistic: with Britain's last coal-fired plant shutting down on September 30.

Following a precedent set in the summer that scope 3 emissions must be considered when approving energy projects, the government announced it would not defend the upcoming case against the Rosebank oil field: increasing the likelihood it will be ruled unlawful as was the case with the West Cumbria Coal Mine, which was quashed on September 13. Plus, after a hiatus since the position was left vacant under Rishi Sunak, the UK finally has a new Climate Envoy in Rachel Kyte.