Constructive Voices is an award-winning global platform that aims to break down silos in the built environment to accelerate positive change.
Through global conversations with change-makers, we inform our audience about some of the most important concepts and solutions of today.
The Constructive Voices team investigates topics such as green building, biodiversity, renewable energy, nature-positive solutions, AI, resilient building and more.
Hosts to date have included Jackie De Burca, Henry McDonald, Peter Finn, Steve Randall, Emma Nicholson and Sarah Austin.
Our vision is to partner with as many companies and individuals as possible to feature the positive work that they are doing. Making Constructive Voices the Go-To resource for global information and ideas on positive methods for a more sustainable built environment and world.
Our team is dedicated to exploring and promoting sustainability, biodiversity and innovation.
We talk to world-renowned experts, local people, businesses and students in our quest to document and inspire positive, historic changes required for these challenging times.
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Constructive Voices is an award-winning global platform that aims to break down silos in the built environment to accelerate positive change.
Through global conversations with change-makers, we inform our audience about some of the most important concepts and solutions of today.
The Constructive Voices team investigates topics such as green building, biodiversity, renewable energy, nature-positive solutions, AI, resilient building and more.
Hosts to date have included Jackie De Burca, Henry McDonald, Peter Finn, Steve Randall, Emma Nicholson and Sarah Austin.
Our vision is to partner with as many companies and individuals as possible to feature the positive work that they are doing. Making Constructive Voices the Go-To resource for global information and ideas on positive methods for a more sustainable built environment and world.
Our team is dedicated to exploring and promoting sustainability, biodiversity and innovation.
We talk to world-renowned experts, local people, businesses and students in our quest to document and inspire positive, historic changes required for these challenging times.
Why Nature Credits Matter – With Brian MacSharry, European Environment Agency
Constructive Voices
1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds
1 month ago
Why Nature Credits Matter – With Brian MacSharry, European Environment Agency
Unpacking how nature credits could reshape the way we value biodiversity and fund its restoration with Dr. Brian MacSharry of the European Environment Agency
In this episode of Constructive Voices, Jackie De Burca interviews Dr. Brian MacSharry from the European Environment Agency to discuss the concept of nature credits, their significance in the context of biodiversity, and how they differ from carbon credits.
Brian shares insights from his extensive career in environmental policy, emphasising the importance of recognising the role of biodiversity in our economy and society.
The conversation explores the challenges of measuring biodiversity, the roadmap for implementing nature credits, and the potential for incentivising private sector involvement in conservation efforts. Brian concludes with actionable steps for individuals and businesses to support biodiversity.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode With Dr. Brian MacSharry:
The difference between carbon credits and nature credits, and why biodiversity is harder to measure.
How businesses and economies are far more dependent on nature than most people realise.
Why the European Union’s roadmap for nature credits is both ambitious and full of open questions.
How pilot projects across Europe are already testing new models of valuing biodiversity.
Practical ways individuals, businesses, and policymakers can support biodiversity today.
Constructive Voices
Constructive Voices is an award-winning global platform that aims to break down silos in the built environment to accelerate positive change.
Through global conversations with change-makers, we inform our audience about some of the most important concepts and solutions of today.
The Constructive Voices team investigates topics such as green building, biodiversity, renewable energy, nature-positive solutions, AI, resilient building and more.
Hosts to date have included Jackie De Burca, Henry McDonald, Peter Finn, Steve Randall, Emma Nicholson and Sarah Austin.
Our vision is to partner with as many companies and individuals as possible to feature the positive work that they are doing. Making Constructive Voices the Go-To resource for global information and ideas on positive methods for a more sustainable built environment and world.
Our team is dedicated to exploring and promoting sustainability, biodiversity and innovation.
We talk to world-renowned experts, local people, businesses and students in our quest to document and inspire positive, historic changes required for these challenging times.
