March 2025
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IFB Flagship Leader submits evidence to
Environmental Audit Committee inquiry

IFB Flagship Leader, Dr Nicola Ranger and Dr Jimena Alvarez, have contributed to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry on The role of natural capital in the green economy.
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IFB Flagship Leader joins
IPBES Monitoring Assessment team

IFB Flagship Leader, Professor Richard Field of the University of Nottingham, has joined the team that will produce the next Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Monitoring Assessment. Richard will serve as a Review Editor. He was nominated as a UK representative by DEFRA.
Further details

Latest IFB Webinar video
Ecological crisis in Lough Neagh

Dr Neil Reid, Reader in Conservation Biology at Queen's University Belfast, hosted a recent IFB webinar looking at the ecological crisis in the UK's and Ireland's largest lake which is a potential IFB test site.
Further details and video

Next podcast release 19th March

Financing Green Sector Transitions

Our next podcast will be available on 19th March when we will be speak to Flagship Leader, Professor Paul Brereton of Queen's University Belfast, about the need to address the negative biodiversity impacts derived from the UK's agricultural land-use  sector, which accounts for over 70% of landcover.
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Integrating Finance and Biodiversity for a Nature Positive Future is a £7 million programme co-led by NERC and Innovate UK to develop the solutions needed to embed the values of biodiversity in financial decision making. This investment will build a national multi-stakeholder community that can drive the development of knowledge, tools and skills to incorporate biodiversity-related risks and opportunities into planning, reporting and investment decisions for the finance and business sectors.
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