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thumb The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) is an independent body set up in 2012 to advise the UK Government on how to value nature and to ensure England’s ‘natural wealth’ is managed efficiently and sustainably. It has called on the Office for National Statistics to integrate the state of the country's natural assets (also known as natural capital) into mainstream national accounting. The Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, described his ambition for the natural environment and how the work of the Committee fits into this at the first public NCC event in November 2012: “I do not, however, just want to maintain our natural assets; I want to improve them. I want us to derive the greatest possible benefit from them, while ensuring that they are available for generations to come. This is what the NCC’s innovative work is geared towards”. ==What does the NCC do?== The NCC’s role is broadly to advise the UK Government on how to ensure England’s ‘natural wealth’ is managed efficiently and sustainably, thereby unlocking opportunities for sustained prosperity and wellbeing. The Committee has three Terms of Reference: # to provide advice on when, where and how natural assets are being used unsustainably; # to advise Government on how it should prioritise action to protect and improve natural capital, so that public and private activity is focused where it will have greatest impact on improving wellbeing in our society; and, # to advise the Government on research priorities to improve future advice and decisions on protecting and enhancing natural capital. The NCC's main form of advice to Government is in the form of annual reports to Government, containing a series of recommendations on what it thinks needs to be done to put the economy on a sustainable footing (as far as the environment is concerned). In addition to these annual reports to Government, the Committee is also involved in natural capital accounting, both at the national and corporate levels. At the national level, it is working with the UK's Office for National Statistics and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to help incorporate natural capital into the national accounts. At a corporate level, the Committee is currently developing and testing a new framework for corporate natural capital accounting to go alongside traditional financial accounts. The aim of this project is to work with a small group of organisations to pilot corporate natural capital accounts and then use the lessons from the pilots to produce high level guidance and a template account which will be useful for other organisations to follow and use. It will also use the lessons from this work to help inform its advice to Government. The Committee also provides ad hoc advice to Government when requested. As of April 2014, it had provided advice on forestry, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and biodiversity offsetting. In line with the Committee's third Term of Reference, it has produced an advice paper to Government on research priorities. The paper explains what needs to be done in order to fill the gaps in our knowledge and understanding of natural capital. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natural Capital Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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