Environmental Sustainability

Knowledge Transfer Network

Dr Anne Miller

Knowledge Transfer Manager University of Oxford, UK

Environmental Sustainability KTN mission:

Accelerating the transition to a low carbon, resource and energy

efficient economy by connecting businesses, universities, other

research organisations & Government agencies

Catalysing innovation across emerging environmental technologies

Funded by UK Government so membership is FREE!

ESKTN Key Priority Areas

Our Priority Areas have

been identified as those

offering the greatest

potential for businesses

to develop innovative

and environmentally

sustainable products and

services.

ESKTN Priority Areas in Sustainable Land

Management and Food Production

Ecosystem Services & Business

The Economics of Ecosystems and

Biodiversity (TEEB)

• TEEB for Business now focussing on how can we

achieve a shift in corporate behaviour to

preserve and enhance our natural capital?

The Economics of Ecosystems and

Biodiversity (TEEB)

New initiative to convene and engage a global

community of organisations already active in this area

from business, society and government

What will the outputs be?

• the establishment of a Coalition and the associated

engagement processes

• the production of methodologies for valuing impacts

Ecosystem Services & the UK NEA

Launched June 2011

First attempt to put

an economic value

onto all these

services as an aid to

decision making

UKNEA evaluation process

NEA findings: Trade offs

“The transition to a more sustainable use of ecosystems

and their services can be facilitated by taking a more

integrated, rather than conventional sectoral, approach

to their management, recognising that some difficult

trade-offs will have to be made between individual

ecosystem services”

“Governments, the private sector, voluntary and civil

society at large all have key roles to play in the

transition to a more sustainable use of ecosystems”.

• UK NEA and ecosystem

service valuation will

form a key part of

Government policy:

already in National

Environment White

Paper and the Water

White Paper

UK NEA: where next?

UK NEA: where next?

• Valuing Nature Network and Natural Capital Initiative

already doing more work funded by NERC, along

with the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

programme launched in 2011, but not yet very

engaged with industry.

• Defra also just launched their Ecosystems

Knowledge Network to-co-ordinate all these activities

and also running additional projects: (NEA2).

Natural Capital & Ecosystem Services

Extract from 13th March Programme

• The UK National Ecosystem Assessment, the Valuing Nature Network (VNN) and the Business Sector Prof. Ian Bateman

• NERC’s Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BESS) programme: links and opportunities for Business Prof. Dave Rafaelli

• Opportunities for business engagement through The Natural Capital Initiative(NCI) Prof. Rosie Hails

• Business engagement with Defra’s UKNEA2 Dr Robert Bradburne

• Business case studies-

• NERC’s internship programme

• Workshop bringing together business and academic partners to develop bids

Contact points

• Defra’s network is at:

www.naturalcapitalinitiative.org.uk/ekn

• Link to NERC/ESKTN 13th March workshop

registration is at:

http://natural-capital.eventbrite.com