Advocacy
The Advocacy Working Group meets to create, plan and deliver opportunities for WEL members to engage with Assembly Members.
Upcoming Events
- To be arranged
Previous Events
- Wales Environment Link launched a new report on Wales' freshwaters.
Valuing our Freshwaters
Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12 - 1pm
Yr Oriel, Senedd, Cardiff Bay
Speakers:
Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM, Chair of Environment and Sustainabililty Committee
Russel Hobson, Butterfly Conservation Wales / WEL Trustee
Frank Jones, Afonydd Cymru / WEL member
This report was produced due to concern about the quality of freshwaters in Wales. 66% of Wales’ rivers, lakes and wetlands are not achieving “Good Ecological Status” as required under the European Union’s Water Framework Directive and only 24% of freshwater Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) were in favourable status in 2006. “Valuing our Freshwaters” identifies 9 headline key issues and also the actions needed to address them by Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales if we are to achieve the required improvements.
Report available here (2.6MB) - Valuing our freshwaters
- Wales Environment Link organised an event to discuss the key findings of the “Marine Policy in Wales” inquiry.
Sensational Seas moving forwards
Tuesday 22nd January 2013, 6 - 8pm
Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
Speakers:
Julie James AM
Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM, Chair of Environment and Sustainabililty Committee
WEL Representative
- Cross Party Group for Biodiversity: How much would you pay? - Payment for Ecosystem Services
Cross Party Group for Biodiversity
Tuesday 16th October 2012, 6 - 7.30pm
Conference Rooms C & D, Tŷ Hywel
“How much would you pay? – Payment for Ecosystem Services”
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is often used to describe a variety of schemes in which beneficiaries, or users, of ecosystem services provide payment to the providers. Such areas are watershed protection (including erosion management), carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation and landscape aesthetics or public access (recreational or tourism services).
Can this significantly add to the green economy of Wales, providing and/or securing jobs while benefiting communities and the environment? What are the opportunities and barriers to using PES to implementing ‘A Living Wales’?
Speakers:
Dr Madeleine Havard (Chair, Wales Environment Link)
James Byrne (Living Landscapes Advocacy Manager, Wildlife Trusts Wales)
Paul Morling (Head of Economics, RSPB)
Liz Lewis-Reddy and Steven Hughes (Living Landscape Economists, Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust)
With closing reflections by John Griffiths (Environment and Sustainability Minister)
- Cross Party Group for Biodiversity: Safeguarding Wales’ Sensational Seas – 25th April
