I have enormous respect for Kate and I think the doughnut is a brilliant conceptual approach. But we've know for at least 15 years in Wales roughly where we're overstepping planetary boundaries, and what we need to do about it (1/n) https://twitter.com/gringreen/status/1247804010163130368

The work @CynnalCymru did in 2006 with Jim Poole and I for example highlighted the importance of what we would now call a 'just transition' 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'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'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'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.

So if evidence in the environmental sphere is at all useful, it has to have a 'path to power' - a strong communication and lever-pulling strategy that identifies when and where change can occur. Such things are complicated, and require resources Welsh NGOs don't have...

I'm not even going to mention the raft of non-systematic indicator sets we've developed - bloody hell what a conceptual mess some of those were - including the #WFGAct National Indicators...