Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee, 13 July 2020 to 26 January 2023. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (30 June 2021)
• Second Report - The UK's footprint on global biodiversity (30 September 2021)
• Third Special Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report (30 September 2021)
• Fifth Special Report - The UK’s footprint on global biodiversity: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report (1 February 2022)

Evidence sessions

• : University of Oxford; Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• : Environment Bank; Mott MacDonald; Associated British Foods UK Grocery
• : University of Cambridge; HMT Economics of Biodiversity Review
• 22 October 2020: Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, UN Convention on Biological Diversity; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Global Council of Birdlife International; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Board of Trustees of Biodiversity International; Kate Norgrove, WWF; Elisa Morgera, Strathclyde University Law School
• 22 October 2020: Anne Larigauderie, IPBES; Andy Purvis, IPBES; Andy Purvis, Natural History Museum; Tony Juniper, Natural England; Doug Allan, Planet Earth and Blue Planet series
• 12 November 2020: Mayor Philip Glanville, Local Government Association’s Environment, Economy, Housing and Transport Board; Balfour Beatty; National Farmers' Union Environment Forum; National Trust
• 12 November 2020: Natural Capital Committee; Julian Glover, London Evening Standard; Wildlife Trusts; Dr Ruth Little, University of Sheffield
• 13 January 2021: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 24 February 2021: HMT Economics of Biodiversity Review; University of Cambridge
• 4 March 2021: HM Treasury; Government Equalities Office; HM Treasury