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I have enormous respect for Kate and I think the doughnut is a brilliant conceptual approach. But we& #39;ve know for at least 15 years in Wales roughly where we& #39;re overstepping planetary boundaries, and what we need to do about it (1/n) https://twitter.com/gringreen/status/1247804010163130368">https://twitter.com/gringreen...
The work @CynnalCymru did in 2006 with Jim Poole and I for example highlighted the importance of what we would now call a & #39;just transition& #39; to ensure the ethical development of a biodiversity and climate friendly economy. Civil servants developing the then WAVE strategy hated it
In summary then. I think in 30 years of producing data, evidence and impact assessment for policy, I have never changed a politician& #39;s mind. Not once. My work is used/commissioned only when it suits the prevailing wind.
In absence of such challenge we are left with the (itself under-resources) @futuregencymru Office to try to ensure environmental evidence is wielded in decision making - and of course @WWFCymru, @CynnalCymru and NGO partners were import in ensuring the WFG Act even has this role
And @JaneBryngwyn I think supported eco-footprint approaches for Wales for maybe 2003, 2007 base years? Again conceptually close to Kate& #39;s work.
And our Input-Output models have been capable of carbon analysis since 2010 for policy relevant work - indeed you can look at my 2013 paper in my pinned tweet revealing the 7m tonnes of Welsh tourism CO2e
And yes, this should have been a blog. (n/n) (ends)
The logics of political decision making in Wales, with a largely disinterested electorate, simply don& #39;t require quality evidence.
The Environment Agency and @NatResWales have themselves developed tools on natural capital approaches (now called SoNaRR) that are interesting and relevant.