Delivering the Blueprint for a Green Economy, 30 Years on

Location :
Cambridge, United Kingdom.

On 19 September 2019, the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Centre (UCCRI), with support from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Cooperative Research Programme, is hosting a conference on "Delivering the Blueprint for a Green Economy, 30 Years on" in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

Background

Environmental economists have been telling us for decades what changes are needed to our economic system to enable better stewardship of nature. The seminal Blueprint for a Green Economy was published 30 years ago and clearly set out the required principles of an economic system that takes nature’s values into account. Numerous high level plans and blueprints outlining natural capital and green economy approaches have followed in its wake. Such approaches have had some impact on business and public policy. But, so far, they have failed to halt the over-exploitation and under-investment in nature.

What more needs to change for economic approaches to deliver a green economy? Or are there limits to what economics can solve?

This conference will bring together experience from across the world on efforts to integrate nature’s values into our economic and political systems, asking what has worked, what has not worked and what we should do next.

 

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Program
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Papers & Presentations

Thursday 19 September 2019

 

09:00 Registration

09:15 Welcome: Dr. Mike Rands

09:20 The Blueprint for a Green Economy 30 years on

  • Prof Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge - Chair

  • Dr. Ichiro Nakayama, OECD Cooperative Research Programme - The OECD Cooperative Research Programme and its support for research into managing natural capital

  • Prof. Anil Markandya, Basque Centre for Climate Change - From Blueprints to Implementation

  • Prof. Gretchen Daily, Stanford University Natural Capital Project - The Power of Economics to Harmonize People and Nature

  • Dr. Katharine Bolt, Cambridge Conservation Initiative/ RSPB - Are there limits on economics to deliver nature conservation?

10:40 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 HM Treasury + The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity

11:25 Mainstreaming environmental values across public policy

  • Matthew Agarwala, Bennett Institute for Public Policy - Chair

  • John Maughan, Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) - Review of natural capital approach implementation

  • Annawati van Paddenburg, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) - Integrating natural capital into green growth assessments to inform government decision making

  • Ed Perry, OECD - Mainstreaming natural capital into public policy: insights from the OECD

12:15 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30 Reflecting environmental values in decision-making across a landscape

  • James Vause, UNEP-WCMC - Chair

  • Prof. Ian Hodge, University of Cambridge - Organisations for the local governance of natural capital

  • Roel Posthoorn, Marker Wadden Project - Marker Wadden, the importance of smart governance in landscape scale ecological restoration

  • Prof. Unai Pascual, Basque Centre for Climate Change and IPBES - Mind the gap: Landscape level relational values in voluntary agri-environmental programs

  • Ivo Mulder, UN Environment Programme - Blended finance as a means to direct private finance towards sustainable land use

14:35 Discussion

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 National experience of using economics to better manage nature

  • Martin Lok, Natural Capital Coalition - Chair

  • Gretchen Daily, Stanford Natural Capital Project - Natural capital science and policy for an Ecological Civilization in China

  • Joey Au, Government of New Zealand - The re-emergence of natural capital accounting in New Zealand – why now, why that and why we must continue?

  • Stuart Whitten, CSIRO - Environmental market design in Australia

15:50 Discussion
16:00 The costs and benefits of using economics to achieve a more sustainable future

  • Jonny Hughes, UNEP-WCMC - Chair

  • Ruth Davis, RSPB and DEFRA - Where do economic approaches fit into the politics of change around nature?

​16:20 Final panel discussion
17:00 Close