Measuring Environmental Impacts

Description:

This event is the fifth in the ‘Measuring Impacts’ series. This series of workshops aimed 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 identified key resources and guidance to help you measure benefits and impacts in your Business Cases.

This recorded session, on environmental benefits provided an overview of the supplementary guidance to the Green Book covering the consideration of natural capital and environmental impacts in appraisal.

The event provided 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 covered:

• 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.