Nestle to Help Environment Green Alliance

Environmental think tank Green Alliance has partnered with Nestlé and the National Trust for the launch of two new projects which aim to address the UK Government's "failures" surrounding the decline of the nation's natural environment

The two aligned but distinct projects form part of the Alliance's new Natural Environment programme, which seeks to curb the long-term decline in the health of the UK's natural environment.

Green Alliance director Matthew Spencer said: "We are still struggling to balance the twin needs of agricultural production and restoring the health of our natural environment. This government has come to power with a promise to create a 25 year plan to restore nature.

"But it will require renewed political leadership, new policy ideas, and new thinking on our relationship with natural resources. We aim to support this necessary shift with workable new practices and policies that enable us to thrive and develop alongside natural systems, and within natural limits."

New thinking

The project backed by Nestlé will involve work with business and civil society partners to identify how to turn new thinking about the economic value of natural capital into practical policy to arrest nature's decline and restore the health of the natural environment.

Nestlé SA's assistant vice president Duncan Pollard said: "We are very excited to be working with Green Alliance on this project. The thinking behind the concept of natural capital is advancing rapidly, and this project will allow us to help shape the incentives that can guide further actions by land owners, companies in the value chain that are dependent upon nature, governments and civil society to help the UK restore the nature upon which we depend."

Source: Edie

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