Reporting and review
Our Objective – To act as an exemplar of best practice, by considering biodiversity issues when developing relevant strategies and during partnership working.
Natural Choice White Paper:
a) Economic growth and the natural environment are mutually compatible. The Economic of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study shows that there are multi-million pound opportunities available from greener goods and services, and from markets that protect nature’s services. When nature is undervalued, bad choices can be made.
Natural Capital will be put at the heart of measuring economic progress. Natural capital will be included in the UK Environmental Accounts;
b) More businesses should benefit from using natural capital in their supply chains. Government and business should work together to:
- Publish an action plan to expand markets and schemes in which payments are made by the beneficiary of a natural service to the provider of that service;
- Set up a business-led Ecosystems Markets Task Force;
- Publish a review of waste policy later in 2011;
- Produce guidance by 2012 on how to measure and report corporate environmental impacts.
c) By spring 2012 develop a set of Key Indicators to track progress on the White Paper. Publish periodically the state of the English Environment report.