Welkom bij seizoen twee van Constructive Voices en onze allereerste themamaand: Biodiversiteit in de gebouwde omgeving.
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Januari 2023 biedt u deskundig inzicht in biodiversiteit in de gebouwde omgeving. We hebben een fantastisch panel van gasten samengesteld die te zien zullen zijn in twee podcastafleveringen (17 en 24 januari) en we zullen uitmonden in het Ronde Tafel-evenement op 31 januari 2023.
Het begint allemaal met deze speciale aflevering met Roberta Boscolo, klimaat- en energieleider bij de Wereld Meteorologische Organisatie. Roberta is een klimaat- en duurzaamheidsbeïnvloeder met meer dan 40,000 volgers op LinkedIn.
Als je de klimaatverandering wilt begrijpen en hoe deze verband houdt met biodiversiteit, is dit interview gemakkelijk te verteren en boordevol nauwkeurige wetenschappelijke feiten en duidelijkheid.
Roberta's interview zou eventuele twijfels over dit onderwerp moeten wegnemen.
Haar werk richt zich op het benutten van de kracht van klimaatgegevens en klimaatinformatie die de wereld biedt
WMO generates, through partners and member states, to support decision making in key sectors. The energy sector is her speciality.
The scientific data she and her colleagues work with is central in helping decision making by private and public sector entities on their pathway to sustainability and climate change mitigation
Roberta and her colleagues appreciate how important those working in the
gebouwde omgeving zijn en welke grote verantwoordelijkheden zij hebben.
“..They also need to increase the risk climate resilience of the buildings and make buildings adaptable to the future climate. I think they have a big responsibility to understand the issue and talk with the scientists as well, to find solutions.”
Als het gaat om
biodiversiteit, regardless of what country you are in and what your role is in the built environment, Roberta reminds you of the potentially positive effect that improving biodiversity can have. Whether we label this Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) or simply see it as natural steps to cooperate with nature, at a time when it is so badly needed, what we can be assured of is Nature’s innate instinct to heal and cooperate.
“De natuur biedt veel onbenut potentieel, niet alleen om het klimaatrisico te verminderen en de oorzaken van klimaatverandering aan te pakken, maar ook om de levens van mensen te verbeteren. Door bijvoorbeeld ecosystemen te herstellen, op het land en in de oceaan, helpen we planten en dieren klimaatbestendigheid op te bouwen.”
U zult ook horen van enkele van onze panelleden die u virtueel kunt ontmoeten tijdens het Roundtable Event op 31 januari 2023, Biodiversiteit in de Gebouwde Omgeving
Onder leiding van Claire Wansbury, Atkins Ltd, lid van SNC Lavalin
Claire was een van onze gewaardeerde panelleden tijdens ons eerste virtuele evenement in november 2021: The Routekaart na COP26
Claire is een Atkins Fellow en technisch directeur van Atkins, a world-leading engineering and environmental consultancy. She will share her particular expertise in biodiversity and natural capital. Claire is one of the UK’s top experts on biodiversity net gain, including having co-authored national good practice principles.
In 2022, Claire was included in the
Beëindigt Director's Power List van de 100 meest invloedrijke milieuprofessionals. Met meer dan 30 jaar ervaring als bekroonde ecoloog heeft Claire de afgelopen jaren samengewerkt met milieu-economen en anderen om een gedeeld begrip op te bouwen van de waarde van de voordelen die onze natuurlijke wereld aan mensen biedt. Samen met enkele van haar collega's produceerde Claire een
uitstekend kort tijdschrift vóór COP15. Dit is een zeer nuttige hulpbron, ongeacht uw kennisniveau, omdat het inzichten en verwachtingen van topexperts combineert met een selectie van casestudies.
“The globally and instantly recognisable WWF panda logo took its inspiration from Chi-Chi, a giant panda that arrived at London Zoo in the late 1950s. The strikingly simple image was drawn by British conservationist Sir Peter Scott, with a helping hand from environmentalist and artist, Gerald Watterson.
Sir Peter’s rationale for featuring the panda was powerful and practical, ‘We wanted an animal that is beautiful, is endangered, and one loved by many people in the world for its appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had an impact in black and white to save money on printing costs.’
That logo and the reasons behind it offer a beacon of hope for me. While pandas are considered to be vulnerable, they are no longer endangered thanks to the decades of specialist knowledge in breeding and conservation efforts carried out around the world.
This story demonstrates that we can make a positive difference.”
Claire Wansbury excerpt from the Engineering a Nature Positive Future publication.
Hieronder staat nog een citaat uit een artikel dat Claire samen met haar collega, Senior Environmentalist bij Atkins, Jonathan Nichols schreef:
What we found most compelling in the Dasgupta Review was the comparison of biodiversity (a key part of the world’s “Natural Capital”) to an investment portfolio – no sensible investor would rely on only a few assets for their profits; they would ensure they have a diverse portfolio to secure a return and mitigate their risks.
The same can be said of life on Earth. By cultivating only a few species at the expense of the rest we are putting our prosperity at risk. The effect of humans, particularly in the last thousand years, has been to erode this diversity.
The more we lose biodiversity, the more we undermine the resilience of our asset portfolio; an action that is already having grave consequences across the globe, including our ability to achieve carbon Net-Zero.
Volg Claire verder LinkedIn
Ons panel bestaat uit Roberta Boscolo uit deze aflevering en ook de volgende topexperts:
Roberta Boscolo
Roberta Boscolo is leading the Climate and Energy workstream at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her main work is to enhance the capacity of all countries to contrast climate change and enact
duurzame ontwikkeling door het opschalen van op wetenschap gebaseerde maatregelen voor klimaatadaptatie en mitigatie, in lijn met de mondiale historische overeenkomsten. Met een brede en diepgaande kennis van klimaat- en duurzaamheidsgerelateerde kwesties beheert ze een transformatieve interface tussen klimaatwetenschap en sociaal-economische sectoren, met name de energiesector, via partnerschappen met agentschappen van de Verenigde Naties, publieke en private sectoren, de academische wereld, het maatschappelijk middenveld, de media groepen en verenigingen. Ze heeft langdurige ervaring met het ontwikkelen van kennisplatforms en goede praktijken ter ondersteuning van klimaatgerelateerd risicobeheer en trajecten naar een veerkrachtige koolstofarme economie. In 2022 werd ze opgenomen in de lijst van top
10 duurzaamheidsinvloeden door het Sustainability Magazine and nominated Top Voice of LinkedIn.
Previously she served as science officer for the World Climate Research Programme, coordinating scientific efforts worldwide to address the knowledge gaps in understanding Earth climate system. Such knowledge is assessed by the IPCC milestone reports.
She launched and managed multi-stakeholders development projects in 20+ countries, currently she manages a portfolio of several multi-million projects (US$ 30M) in Africa, South America, South East Asia and Pacific.
Volg Roberta verder LinkedIn en Twitter
Dr Jayne Manley believes that future life on Earth requires people thriving and being intimately connected with the ecosystems that support us.
She became CEO of Earth Trust in 2012, bringing with her a strong practical diverse background in whole ecosystem thinking, farming/land management, policy development, income generation, learning and engagement.
Previously working in strategic roles for Plantlife International and English Nature, Jayne is currently Chair Oxfordshire Environment Board, member of the Oxfordshire Executive Officers Group of Future Oxfordshire Partnership, and past Chair of the OXLEP Environment and Sustainability Sub Committee.
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LinkedIn en
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Chris Gerrard, Anglian Water
Chris is the Catchment and Biodiversity Manager at Anglian Water Services Vice-President for England at CIEEM. Previously he was the Director of Living Landscapes for the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
At Anglian Water Services, he works with a team of four people, most of whom are based on the nature conservation wildlife side of the work. Together they identify plans and projects to reduce any potential negative impacts on wildlife, whilst also seeking to maximize the benefits to wildlife of their day to day activities.
They also have a multi-million-pound construction program running, so they need to know when there are going to be problems with things like protected species or protected sites.
This means having a team member involved in the screening of those projects so they can point out all the work that needs to be done to address Great Crested Newts, Bats, Sites of Species Scientific Interest (SSSI) or whatever it is that might be a constraint that we need to manage.
Chris also does climate change adaptation for Anglian Water, which is saying “what is the inevitable climate change that we are going to face in this part of the world, and what do we therefore need to do in order to continue to provide great service to our customers”?
John Vesey, WM5G
John is the Health and Care Sector Lead at West Midlands 5G.
John has worked in numerous roles supporting the public and private sectors (having worked in both at HMRC and Amazon amongst others) to harness the benefits of technology, connectivity, artificial intelligence and data.
His current role focuses on developing sustainable services for the health and social care sectors, that are underpinned by digital transformations and shifting where care is delivered.
Volg Johannes verder LinkedIn en Twitter.
Margarita Skarkou, ClimateTech VC @ 2150 | Niet-uitvoerend @ Innovate UK – UKRI Kredietcomité | Top 30 Vrouwen in de Stad Brummel | Newton collega
Working with founders to scale solutions and companies that can have a measurable impact and create more resilient, sustainable, healthy and equitable cities is the single most exciting mission of our time. I am optimistic about technology and humanity’s ability to alter the current climate change and ecosystem degradation trajectory.”
Margarita has spent the last ten years working across the construction, international development and finance sectors.
Prior to joining 2150 she was a VP in the Sustainable Impact Capital team at Barclays, leading investments in sustainable tech businesses. While at Barclays, she co-founded Barclays Ventures, a corporate innovation / CVC business unit where she led on ESG and wellbeing investments.
Margarita is an active angel, business advisor and scout for FiveThirteen, which showcases female founders in cleantech. She is also currently a Non-Executive Credit Committee member at UKRI – Innovate UK, NERC ‘Economics of Biodiversity’ and ‘Quality of Urban Environments with Nature Connectedness and Health’ delegate and Advisory Board member for the Next Generation NED Network.
Margarita graduated with a MEng Civil Engineering degree from the University of Edinburgh and is a CIMA certified Business Accountant.
Her personal commitment to sustainability in 2022 is to avoid buying a car despite having a baby and use reusable/biodegradable nappies!
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