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Description:
We invite you to join the fifth event in our ‘Measuring Impacts’ series. This series of workshops aims to provide you with more detailed guidance and support for measuring impacts in your Business Cases across six topic areas. During each session, the presenters will identify key resources and guidance to help you measure benefits and impacts in your Business Cases.
The session will include a short presentation, with plenty of time allowed for discussion.
This session, on environmental benefits will provide an overview of the supplementary guidance to the Green Book covering the consideration of natural capital and environmental impacts in appraisal.
The event will provide an overview of ENCA (Enabling a Natural Capital Approach) resources, including data, guidance and tools to help you understand natural capital and how to take it into account in project development and appraisal. It will cover:
the natural capital framework
economic valuation of the environment
how project appraisal can incorporate natural capital
natural capital accounting principles and methods, benefits and challenges
applying natural capital at a local level
About the speaker:
Amy Carroll is an economist at Arup. Amy spent eight years working in the public sector as part of the Government Economic Service, including working in Defra and developing climate change policy. Amy has led development of a wide range of business cases and economic appraisals. As well as supporting the Towns Fund, Amy is currently working with the Environment Agency on climate resilience and adaptation strategies.