An exciting week at #ipbes12 comes to an end! The landmark Business and Biodiversity Assessment has been approved and the SPM will be launched tomorrow! It's been a pleasure to witness the inter governmental process! Thanks @yess-network.bsky.social for the delegation #bizbiodiversity

Tomorrow, the @ipbes.net landmark Business & Biodiversity Report will be launched. A historic moment, describing the impact of business on nature and the requirement for businesses to reshape their ecological footprint throughout their supply chains and practices. #IPBES12 #BizBiodiversity

Earth Negotiations Bulletin@enb.iisd.org · 6mo ago

Delegates #IPBES12 just approved the #BizBiodiversity Assessment!

Great to be in Manchester - a city I grew up only 40km away for #IPBES12 a city with a rich industrial heritage and leading approach to its Natural Capital

Young Ecosystem Services Specialists@yess-network.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We’re in Manchester 🇬🇧 for #IPBES12! Governments, scientists, and biodiversity leaders are meeting for the IPBES Plenary and the launch of the Business & Biodiversity Report. 🌱 The Ecosystem Services Partnership and #ECRs Youth are there - observing, engaging, connecting. Meet us at @ipbes.net !

We’re in Manchester 🇬🇧 for #IPBES12! Governments, scientists, and biodiversity leaders are meeting for the IPBES Plenary and the launch of the Business & Biodiversity Report. 🌱 The Ecosystem Services Partnership and #ECRs Youth are there - observing, engaging, connecting. Meet us at @ipbes.net !

Please to be hosting a World Café session at ESP Europe 2026 on advancing citizen participation in social-ecological scenario planning 🫂🏞️ 👉Session overview: cdn.aanmelderusercontent.nl/i/doc/88995799… 📭Accepting abstracts to contribute to part 1: scene setting

Please to be hosting a World Café session at ESP Europe 2026 on advancing citizen participation in social-ecological scenario planning 🫂🏞️ 👉Session overview: cdn.aanmelderusercontent.nl/i/doc/88995799… 📭Accepting abstracts to contribute to part 1: scene setting

Blackheath and Greenwich looking more like a Savanna than a Common and Park on this hot London day! But #GreenInfrastructure providing "more than human" urban cooling benefits and interesting to see drought resistance of non-cut vs cut!

A dark day indeed... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Dark day for parks’: Plans to build Spurs academy on London green space approved

Residents had unsuccessfully challenged Enfield council in court over club’s plan to build pitches on rewilded area rich in bats and newts

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Excited to be starting the new year in a #NewJob working on #UrbaReLeaf based at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and across Europe to provide innovative and participatory approaches to create liveable, and resilient cities through urban greening which empower citizens

"Other countries should take note that it is possible to put a price on agriculture’s climate impact without widespread uproar" - really important blog from the Danish Society for Nature Conservation on Denmark's tripartite (govt, ag & NGOs) agreement on climate & farming. shorturl.at/OtxbN 1/

#TNOCEssay: Re-envisioning the Green Belt for Biodiversity, Recreational Access, and Climate Resilience By Lincoln Garland, Bath Read more and Join the conversation 👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/12/09/r... #UrbanResilience #Biodiversity #GreenBelt

New blog : changing the #nature of Government rhetoric and policy about nature. mainstreaminggreeninfrastructure.com/blog/posts.p...

A fantastic day yesterday at my PhD graduation and a fitting end to my time at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the ONE Planet DTP I feel increasingly lucky to have had @profajscott.bsky.social by my side as a truly superb supervisor and mentor

📢📜 My 5th PhD paper has been published in #LandscapeandUrbanPlanning w/ @profajscott.bsky.social Claire Walsh Drawing on stakeholder co-developed exploratory scenarios our timely research asks what English #GreenBelt landscapes might look like in the future? doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ...🧵(1/10)

📢📜 My 5th PhD paper has been published in #LandscapeandUrbanPlanning w/ @profajscott.bsky.social Claire Walsh Drawing on stakeholder co-developed exploratory scenarios our timely research asks what English #GreenBelt landscapes might look like in the future? doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ...🧵(1/10)

Delighted 4 @drmattkirby.bsky.social that his 5th peer review paper on codeveloping exploratory scenarios 4 #greenbelt futures is now on line (open access). Pleased to have supported this paper both in leading one of the workshops and its subsequent write up. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A greener Green Belt? Co-developing exploratory scenarios for contentious peri-urban landscapes

Peri-urban landscapes experience conflicting land-use demands from co-occurring urban–rural drivers. In England, Green Belts are urban containment pol…

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Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...

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Popping this 2016 vintage to celebrate my final (probably...) PhD paper being accepted in Landscape and Urban Planning

Great to see @profajscott.bsky.social giving evidence at the Environmental Audit Committee inquiryon Environmental sustainability and housing growth. Making the case for breaking down silos, strategic planning and championing nature in planning, including Green Belts benefits. Thanks for the plug!

Denmark's "green tripartite agreement" is a world first to introduce a climate tax on livestock emissions alongside N reduction. In one of Europe's most nature depleted countries the impetus will now be a conversion of agriculture to nature - supported cross-sector www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Landbrug & Fødevarer: Trepart er 'en sejr for både det gode landmandskab, klima, natur og miljø'

Aftalen om grøn trepart vil 'ændre stregerne på Danmarkskortet', lyder det fra Dansk Industri.

dr.dk

Denmark's "green tripartite agreement" is a world first to introduce a climate tax on livestock emissions alongside N reduction. In one of Europe's most nature depleted countries the impetus will now be a conversion of agriculture to nature - supported cross-sector www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Landbrug & Fødevarer: Trepart er 'en sejr for både det gode landmandskab, klima, natur og miljø'

Aftalen om grøn trepart vil 'ændre stregerne på Danmarkskortet', lyder det fra Dansk Industri.

dr.dk

Env audit select committee have published details of their first inquiry under new government on how housing, nature and climate challenges can be tackled collectively. Delighted to give evidence at the first oral hearing this Wednesday committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...

Can building 1.5 million homes support UK nature and climate goals? EAC’s launches inquiry as it holds first evidence session of the new Parliament    - Committees - UK Parliament

The environmental impact of planning reforms needed to meet the Government’s housebuilding targets will be examined by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) as it launches its first inquiry of...

committees.parliament.uk

My publications on #EcosystemServices #Planning #Multifunctionality #PeriUrbanLandscapes #GreenBelts #MainstreamingNature can be found here: scholar.google.com/citations?us... Always interested in collaborations and research opportunities

Matthew Kirby

‪PhD Researcher, Northumbria University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 40‬‬ - ‪Environmental Planning‬ - ‪Ecosystem Services‬ - ‪Landscape Planning‬ - ‪Multifunctionality‬ - ‪Peri-Urban‬

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Moving over to @bsky.app what better first tweet than to share my #PhD thesis on #Multifunctional #GreenBelts is now online: researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/studentTh... At a time when England's Green Belt Policy is being reshaped, my thesis explores their wider potential for people & nature

Multifunctional Green Belts: Mainstreaming Nature in a Contentious Policy Space

researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk