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LIVING WALES PROGRAMME

Tim Jones

•Sustainable Development at the heart of decision making in Wales

•Managing Wales’ natural environment to deliver:•economic outcomes•environmental outcomes•social outcomes

•Assessing and balancing the many demands on our natural resources

Living Wales

“The application of the Ecosystem Approach provides the basis for bringing together social, economic and environmental values. It needs to be applied at all levels and embedded across policy”.

•A new approach to the management and regulation of the environment in Wales

•The creation of a new single body to deliver this new approach

What is the Living Wales Programme

•Wales' natural environment - our ultimate resource

•Pressures on our natural environment

•Maximising opportunities and minimising impacts

Living Wales Drivers

•Solutions developed for Wales

•Improved processes

•Value for money

Why Change?

•Sustaining A Living Wales Consultation

•Natural Resources Wales Consultation

Current work

•A fresh approach to the management and regulation of the environment in Wales

•Development of future Welsh Bills

Sustaining A Living Wales

•Simpler regulatory systems

•Better links

•Greater clarity

•Sustainable development embedded across all sectors

Potential Benefits

•Better long term planning and use of our natural resources

•Involving people and benefiting communities

•Getting the evidence-base right for decision making

•Move to a single body

Green Paper

•Simplifying arrangements for managing the environment in Wales

•The creation of a new single body

Natural Resources Wales

•Purpose

•Legal functions

•Governance

Natural Resources Wales consultation

•Sustainable development

• Natural Resource Management approach

•Deliver Welsh Government strategies

Purpose of the new Body

‘To maintain, improve and develop Wales’ natural

resources, to deliver benefit to the people and economy of

Wales now and into the future’

Aim of the new Body

•protect our natural resources

•provide environmental advice

•facilitate the delivery of economic and social benefits

•input into the planning processes

•input into the development of new legislation

•help to design new regulatory arrangements

Key elements

•prevention, mediation, mitigation

•conservation, restoration and enhancement

•sustainable use, management and consumption

•protection and promotion

•well-being and outdoor recreation

Strategic outcomes

Legal functions

•Status

•International & Cross-border governance

•Accountability

•Stakeholder engagement

•Regulatory arrangements

Governance

•Input needed for a new approach to work

•What do we need to do to make sure this approach promotes:

• a vibrant economy• healthy communities• a thriving natural environment

Your involvement

•Sustaining a Living Wales 31 May 2012

•Natural Resources Wales (Single Body) 2 May 2012

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