The technology–policy challenges to address climate changes and biodiversity loss.

Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser’s Secretariat, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
 

Addressing human-induced climate change, the loss of biodiversity and natural resources (eg, water and soils) requires developing appropriate policies (national, regional and international), choosing appropriate technologies (current and future), getting the price right (eliminating harmful subsidies, internalising externalities, and valuing ecosystem services), and understanding behaviour (individual and public and private sector). It essential to recognise the interactions between climate change and biodiversity and natural resources in order to develop policies that are mutually re-inforcing (i.e., win-win).
 

Supported by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Meteorological Society and Scottish Natural Heritage.