Nature-based solutions for climate change

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee, 9 June 2021 to 9 February 2023. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Nature-based solutions: rhetoric or reality? - The potential contribution of nature-based solutions to net zero in the UK (27 January 2022)
• Government response to Nature-based solutions: rhetoric or reality? - The potential contribution of nature-based solutions to net zero in the UK report (21 April 2022)

Evidence sessions

• 7 September 2021: Professor Chris Collins, University of Reading; Dr Lynn Dicks, University of Cambridge; Dr Lisa Norton, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• 7 September 2021: Professor David Coomes, University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute; Sir Harry Studholme, Forestry Commission; Dr Bonnie Waring, Grantham Institute on Climate and Environment, Imperial College London
• 14 September 2021: Dr Rebekka Artz, James Hutton Institute; Professor Chris Evans, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Richard Lindsay, University of East London
• 14 September 2021: Professor Hilary Kennedy, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University; Professor William Austin, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews; Professor Rick Stafford, Bournemouth University
• 19 October 2021: Helen Avery, Green Finance Institute; David Young, Wheatley Young Partners; James Mansfield, Finance Earth
• 19 October 2021: Scottish Forestry; Peatland Code; Annette Burden, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• 26 October 2021: Natural England; Forestry Commission; Environment Agency
• 26 October 2021: Country Land and Business Association (CLA); The National Trust; Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
• 2 November 2021: NatureScot; Scottish Forestry
• 2 November 2021: National Farmers Union (NFU); Marine Management Organisation (MMO); Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• 23 November 2021: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 30 November 2021: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs