The Green Economy Under Our Feet Towards a Green Britain Conference 2025
Promoting Nature-based Solutions to mitigate Climate Change
Welcome to The Green Economy Under Our Feet –
Towards A Green Britain Conference 2025!
Join us at the easily accessible British Library Knowledge Centre (or get online access) for insightful & inspiring discussions covering themes including;
- Advocating a holistic approach to land-use & green infrastructure
- Demonstrating best climate-change practice
- Prioritising water resilience to deliver a ‘Fresh Water Future’
- Reversing biodiversity decline
- Promoting holistic action for cleaner air
- Ensuring soils are treated as a valuable capital asset
- Exploring innovative ideas for Nature-based-Solutions
- Unlocking investment in low carbon technologies to deliver ‘Net-Zero’
- Unlocking the enormous social, economic and environmental potential of green jobs and skills
Who Is This Event For?
This conference will provide:
- Landscape architects
- Builders of the environment
- Garden designers
- Landowners
- Landscapers
- Parks managers
- Biodiversity & sustainability managers · climate-change managers
- ESG managers
- Ecologists
- Environmentalists
- Contractors & suppliers
- …with an insight into the emerging opportunities, that are attracting major market interest, incorporating climate-change, carbon, ecological, biodiversity net-gain and Nature-based-Solutions into the landscape design process.
Learn from industry experts about fighting climate change, biodiversity net-gain, nature-based-solutions, carbon sequestration, carbon auditing, sustainable ecological practices and the future of the ‘Green Economy’ in Britain.
Attend yourself or, generously enable, via donation, an apprentice, student or charity-worker to attend to obtain the knowledge & experience.
This event is dedicated to Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe 1900-1996 It is being live-streamed to IFLA’s 70,000 members in 70 nations.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, founder of the LI in 1929 and IFLA in 1948, wrote in his seminal The Landscape of Man in 1982;
– ‘The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history.’
Additional Benefits
This event is accepted as part of the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) required to be completed by LI, SGD & SocEnv members.
- For many professions, it is a mandatory requirement to show evidence of CPD each year to enable renewal of professional-body membership or chartership. For LI & SGD members the minimum requirement is 25 hours of CPD every year.
- Earn an 8-hour CPD certificate.
- Enjoy networking opportunities.
- Helping large companies meet mandatory environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
- Watch recordings in own time online.
Don’t miss out on this exciting event – reserve your space now (in person or online)
The themes will again cover:
- Climate Change
- Nature
- Green Economy
- Soil Carbon
- Landscape
- Wellbeing
‘Not-for-Profit’ event – surplus supporting the following charities & community interest projects:
IFLA – ‘Our mission as Landscape Architects is to create globally sustainable and balanced living environments for the benefit of humanity worldwide.’
UK Government pledge £22 billion to CARBON CAPTURE to reach Statutory ‘Net-Zero’ targets.
6.3 million Ha of unused Agricultural Land that could produce ‘Gas from Grass’ making UK self-sufficient in ‘Natural Gas’ + new Carbon Credit revenue stream for Landowners.
1 million Ha of domestic gardens in the UK – potential carbon-sinks.
‘Nature based Solutions’ to mitigate Climate Change.
73% decline in insect populations since 1970 – Averting the ‘Insect Apocalypse’!
‘The Power of Grasslands’ to sequester atmospheric carbon into the soil-sink.
Opening doors to new business opportunities.
Landscape Power Partnerships United for Change.
The Green Economy Under Our Feet
Towards a Green Britain
- Every Issue is a Climate Issue
- Long-View Leadership
- Compassion For All People
- Work Together To Build A Better Future
- Designing Sustainable Living Solutions
- Climate Solutions
- Renewable Energy
- Climate Change Impact
- Nature
- Insect Apocalypse
- Carbon Capture
- Carbon Sequestration
- Nature Based Solutions
- Deep-Rooting Grasses
- Unlocking The Power of Grassland
- The Answer Lies in The Soil
- Hidden Carbon Revenue
- Soil Carbon
- Carbon Credits
- Community Involvement
- Quality Places
- Greener Places
- Healthier People
- Crisis in UK Parks
- Retrofitting UK Green Infrastructure
- Economic Growth & Investment
- Towards A Green Britain
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Cross-collaboration is key to effective climate action.United For People – Climate – Nature – Grass Roots Supporters
Associations, Charities, Institutes, NGO’s & Trusts Approached for Support
IFLA Middle East
IFLA Europe
IFLA Americas
IFLA Asia-Pacific
IFLA Africa
Organisations & Companies Invited To Support Event As Part Of Their ESG Policy
Don’t miss out on this exciting event – reserve your space now (in person or online)
Overview
Overview of the Sustainable Green Infrastructure Conference 2014
Sustainable Green Infrastructure Conference 2014 Opening Address
Insightful & inspiring discussions covering themes including;
- Advocating a holistic approach to land-use & green infrastructure
- Demonstrating best climate-change practice
- Prioritising water resilience to deliver a ‘Fresh Water Future’
- Reversing biodiversity decline
- Promoting holistic action for cleaner air
- Ensuring soils are treated as a valuable capital asset
- Exploring innovative ideas for Nature-based-Solutions
- Unlocking investment in low carbon technologies to deliver ‘Net-Zero’
- Unlocking the enormous social, economic and environmental potential of green jobs and skills
The Green Economy Under Our Feet
Towards a Green Britain Conference 2025
Speakers
Kirsten Henson
Chaired by Kirsten Henson.
Bruno Marques
Pre-recorded ‘Welcome’ by Bruno Marques, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington.
Professor Sir Dieter Helm
Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy.
Professor Mike Morecroft
Deputy Director of Climate Change Science at Natural England.
Keynote address
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change.
Professor Paul Ekins OBE
Professor Paul Ekins OBE ‘Stopping Climate Change, Policies for Real Zero’.
Mark Gregory
British Landscape Industries Address by Mark Gregory – BALI Board Member.
Thought Leaders & Practioners
Eliot Whittington
Chief Systems Change Officer at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge.
Professor Baroness Willis CBE
Professor Baroness Willis CBE – ‘Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature improves Our Health.’
Stephen Alderton
Directeur Adjoint ‘Top Green’ SAS.
Martin Ballard CEnv CMgr FIEMA
SocEnv ‘Soils and Stones’ Project
Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE
Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE – ‘Pollinating London Together.’
Howard Wood
Howard Wood – ‘The Carbon Management of Landscapes and Green Infrastructure.’
Dr Stephanie Wray
Nature Positive – Greening the blue-chips.
Dr Mike Wells
Dr Mike Wells MIEEM MCIWEM MIBiol ‘Designing Nature into the City for the Benefit of All Species’.
Ann-Marie Powell
Anne-Marie Powell – ‘Designing Gardens to be Natural Havens & Climate Resilient.’
13 Female Landscape Architects
To find out more about the 13 female Landscape Architects leading the fight against climate change click on their images below.
IFLA Declares a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
Recommended Reading
Programme
| 8.30 – 9.30 | Registration |
| 9.30 – 9.35 | Welcome – Kirsten Henson Global Perspective - Bruno Marques President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects Faculty of Architecture & Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington NZ. |
| 9.40 | Professor Sir Dieter Helm – ‘Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy.’ |
| 9.45 – 1.00 | Morning Session Keynote Address – Professor Mike Morecroft – ‘Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change.’ Prof. Paul Ekins OBE - ‘Stopping Climate Change, Policies for Real Zero’. Mark Gregory – ‘Climate Change - massive opportunities for the British Landscape Industries’. |
| 10.45 – 11.00 | Mid-morning coffee break Eliot Wittington - ‘How well prepared are businesses for climate change?’ Prof. Baroness Willis CBE - ‘Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature improves Our Health. Stephen Alderton – ‘Grass Breeding for climate change.’ |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch-break - Networking |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Afternoon Session Martin Ballard – SocEnv ‘Soils and Stones Project’. Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE – ‘Pollinating London Together.’ Howard Wood – ‘The Carbon Management of Landscapes and Green Infrastructure‘. |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Mid-afternoon tea break Dr Stephanie Wray – ‘‘Nature Positive – Greening the blue-chips.’ Dr Mike Wells - ‘Designing Nature into the City for the Benefit of All Species.’ Ann-Marie Powell - ‘Designing Gardens to be Natural Havens & Climate Resilient.’ |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Q&A – Closing Address – Kirsten Henson |
Promoting Nature-based Solutions to mitigate Climate Change
‘Not-for-Profit’ event – surplus supporting the following charities & community interest projects.
