Meeting description: During our speech we spoke about the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration to encourage all the Members present to do their part in influencing decision making at all levels of government and in their constituencies to help solve the twin crisis' of climate change and biodiversity loss. During the series of presentations LINK staff then highlight the work being done to help the environment in Scotland in their respective areas. We talked about the importance of turning political rhetoric in to reality as detailed in the soon to be published LINK Rhetoric to Reality Report and spoke to members about the new agriculture 'Farm for Scotland's Future' with the strapline 'Make farming work for nature climate and people'. All members were invited to add their names to the campaign which will launch with a petition in the week commencing 13 June. We highlighted the series of briefing sessions from MSPs around COP27 running from April September to talk about what COP27 will be and its importance. The first of these was anin-person event at the Scottish Parliament on 21 April. We also encouraged more MSP's to champion particular species/habitat and become one of LINKs 'Nature Champions' and talked about publishing our paper calling for a strong circular economy bill supported by 36 LINK members and other organisations and we summarised our key asks for the bill.
Topic label: Climate