Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Friends the Members for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and for Witham (Priti Patel - Speech Link
2: Ben Everitt (Con - Milton Keynes North) impact cats can have on families, in particular children.In Milton Keynes, we have an abundance of green - Speech Link
3: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), who, unfortunately, is detained - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), who has championed the Bill - Speech Link
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support private investment in ocean recovery.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Ocean conservation and the protection of marine biodiversity is a global challenge and one that is critically underfunded. Through the UK’s £500m UK aid Blue Planet Fund and in line with the 10 Point Plan for Financing Biodiversity and the International Development White Paper, we are supporting innovative projects that aim to attract and scale up private investment in ocean recovery. These initiatives include restoration and protection of blue carbon habitats and increasing coastal community resilience, funded through programmes led by the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (£13.9m), the World Bank’s sustainable blue economies programme- PROBLUE (£37.5m), and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (£33m), amongst others. In June 2023, Lord Benyon hosted a joint UK-GFCR Investors Roundtable event, which showcased the GFCR as a viable investment opportunity and supported investor mobilisation for the GFCR Investment fund. At 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28), the GFCR Coalition announced the mobilisation of more than $200 million USD as an initial direct investment toward the newly established 2030 Coral Reef Breakthrough targets, these include mobilising $12bn for corals and protecting 125,000 km2 of corals (50% of ~250,000km2 global total) by 2030.
As set out in Mobilising Green Investment: 2023 Green Finance Strategy, we are also taking action to meet our target to raise £1bn in private finance into nature’s recovery in England every year by 2030, both on land and at sea.
Written Evidence Apr. 18 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: EWCE0009 - Electronic waste and the circular economy: follow-up Green Alliance Written Evidence
Oral Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: Royal Society of Chemistry, Material Focus, and Green Alliance Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: Alliance.
Formal Minutes Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: RCW0004] Young Women’s Trust [RCW0005] Dr Ariane Agunsoye , [RCW0006] Maternal M ental Health Alliance
Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny CommitteeFound: Submission from Green Alliance on the Biocidal Products (Health and Safety) (Amendment and Transitional
Oral Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Inquiry: UK AstronomyFound: my daughter and I did a programme called “Out of this World” from our kitchen, with a very large green
Mentions:
1: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) the Auchentoshan HyClyde project, run by Marubeni Europower, would use proven technology to deliver green - Speech Link
2: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) improve the sustainability of the distillation process, for which it has received the gold award for green - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: White, Tess (Con - North East Scotland) put on hold for up to two years.A key message from organisations such as the Maternal Mental Health Alliance - Speech Link
2: Ewing, Fergus (SNP - Inverness and Nairn) I suggest that we write to the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity to highlight - Speech Link