The land we live on affects our environment in ways which are increasingly important to environmental policy. Land use has direct implications for the interlinking climate and biodiversity crises, as well as for a range of environmental, social, and economic goals. As we engage in key conversations around agricultural payments, planning processes, and nature recovery, we have a crucial opportunity to use policy to set land systems on a positive track for future generations.

This webinar will provide a brief update on environmental policy relating to land, land use, and nature. With a number of critical policy developments in environmental governance over the last year, punctuated by the Environment Act 2021, there are multiple opportunities for positive engagement between environmental scientists working on land and the policy process.

For environmental professionals working with land, this webinar will support horizon scanning and identify opportunities to engage with decision makers and the public on emerging issues linked to land and nature. For professionals working in other specialisms, the webinar will provide a useful opportunity for cross-disciplinary systems thinking.

Our speaker

Joseph Lewis is the Policy Lead for the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Joseph is responsible for delivering policy for the IES and working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. He has an MSc in Public Policy from the University in Bristol, where he specialised in environmental policy, as well as a Law Degree from Durham University.

Joseph has a particular interest in environmental science communication and the complex interconnected systems which underpin the natural world and human society. Joseph is an advocate for transformative change and using social systems to bring together communities with science-led solutions to the interconnected climate, biodiversity, and social crises facing humanity.