Natural Capital Ireland

Lobbying Organisation Natural Capital Ireland

Date published 17 Jan, 2023

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Environment

Period 1 Sep, 2022 to 31 Dec, 2022

Specific Details Series of tweets/Facebook posts advocating for use of Natural Capital Accounting to protect nature and biodiversity in Ireland regarding the following events, consultations and projects: the Biodiversity Action Plan Consultation, the Heritage Ireland 2030 Summit, the NPWS Strategy Statement Consultation, The ForES project, the Cop15 summit. In-person: NCI SC Chair Conor Kretsch briefly spoke to Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan about our work at the Heritage 2030 Summit and COP15

Intended results To promote the use of Natural Capital concepts and accounting methodologies in government policy across departments and to bring the aforementioned events, consultations and projects to the attention of various ministers.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Fiona Smith and Conor Kretsch

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Social Media (2-5)

Twitter and Facebook

Event / Reception (2-5)

NCI SC Chair Conor Kretsch briefly spoke to Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan about our work at the Heritage 2030 Summit. NCI SC Chair Conor Kretsch & Business For Biodiversity Ireland’s Lucy Gaffney, met and briefly spoke to Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan about the merits of including the natural capital approach in the Global Biodiversity Framework at the COP 15

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Malcolm Noonan Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

Pippa Hackett Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

Martin Heydon Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)