Policy Events

The Natural Capital Initiative

The Natural Capital Initiative (NCI) held its first major symposium in April 2009. The executive summary and report of the meeting ‘Valuing our life support systems’ is available on the NCI website where you can also link to the presentations and biographies of many of our distinguished speakers.

NCI, the British Library and the Science Council also held a public discussion event on the health, well-being, environment and development challenges facing ‘Sustainable Cities’. You can read a brief report and access speaker interviews here.

NCI is:

• informing the Government's implementation of the ecosystems approach - a framework for looking at whole ecosystems in decision making and valuing the services they provide
• identifying gaps in science, policy and implementation that inhibit an ecosystems approach
• working with government, parliament, agencies, NGOs, the private sector, scientific bodies and the wider public

The Natural Capital Initiative was founded by the Insitute of Biology, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and the British Ecological Society (BES).  It is now a joint initiative between the Society of Biology, CEH and BES.

www.naturalcapitalinitiative.org.uk