How can we engage as citizens and businesses to regenerate nature?

Date 19 July 2023

Time 12:00 - 13:30

Location

Free event

Since 1970, biodiversity in the UK has reduced by more than any other G7 nation. Why does this matter to businesses and how can we do something about it?

The People’s Assembly for Nature, is the first time ever that citizens from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have come together to collectively agree on how to tackle the nature crisis. This citizens assembly resulted in The People's Plan for Nature and this month we found out about the plan, the process behind it and how businesses can get involved.

Featured speaker

Rory Crawford

Rory is seconded as the RSPB’s Lead for the citizen’s assembly that led to the People’s Plan for Nature. He is a marine biologist by training and has worked in nature conservation for 16 years, spanning people engagement in Glasgow and Islay, marine policy in Edinburgh and almost a decade working with teams of experts to prevent seabird deaths in fisheries from Iceland to Namibia. Rory sees people as the solution – not the problem – and that was the driving force behind his involvement in the People’s Plan for Nature.

David Colver

David Colver co-founded Operis in 1990, and has at different times, been engaged in every aspect of the activities of the firm as it has grown. He now serves as its CEO and Chief Technology Officer. He was selected to be one of the 108 members of the citizen’s assembly that led to the People's Plan for Nature.

About this event

This month we’ll be joined by Rory Crawford (Conservationist and TV/Radio Presenter) and David Colver (Founder and CEO of Operis).

They’ll be introducing the People’s Plan for Nature and exploring the theme of – Collaboration: How can we engage as citizens and businesses to regenerate nature?

There will be an opportunity to network with other like minded people, share knowledge and reflect on what we learn from our speaker.

Featured presentation

Rory and David managed to pack in a huge amount to their presentation and also gave us plenty of time to discuss the People’s Plan for Nature as a group. If you missed the session you can catch up with everything by watching the video.

After the session David kindly shared some resources including the podcasts in which he first heard of sortition as an alternative or supplement to democracy
– https://pca.st/AATT
– https://pca.st/01Kg
– https://pca.st/52GD
– https://pca.st/fqqhkpg5

The Sortition Foundation, which promotes the use of sortition
– https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/

Climate Change Assembly UK of about two years ago.
– https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/committees/climate-assembly-uk/

The People’s Assembly on Nature, which David took part in between Nov 2022 and Feb 2023, having been one of 100 selected from a mailing to 33,000 households.
– https://peoplesplanfornature.org/peoples-assembly-nature

Financing of nature-based projects was mentioned several times in the third weekend, 14-15 Jan 2023. This presentation was the most economically focussed
– https://youtu.be/c9BGJE1DRIw?list=PLo0jLEXe09-MxX3eUM2RU1ttJCkAgCYQy

Project of the month

People's Plan for Nature

The People’s Plan for Nature is a plan created for the people, by the people of the UK – a vision for the future of nature, and the actions we must all take to protect and renew it.

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