Learn about Natural Capital Ireland with Dr Catherine Farrell

In our podcast today, Melanie Boylan sat down with Dr Catherine Farrell about what Natural Capital Ireland and the INCASE project was all about.  It's keeping companies and NGO's accountable and raising awareness to meet and match the goals that Ireland and Europe.

Dr. Farrell Biography:

Dr. Catherine Farrell is a Research Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Currently she is working as the lead ecologist on the INCASE (Irish Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Environments) project. She started out as a restoration ecologist and practitioner in the late 1990s and since then has worked on a wide range of projects in Ireland to restore degraded peatlands, particularly the Bord na Móna (Irish Turf Board) industrial peat extraction sites and domestically cut bogs. Catherine has expanded her work internationally to develop best practices globally for ecological restoration and is looking forward to making further progress in restoring nature through the UN Decade on Restoration. A founding member of Natural Capital Ireland, she is also an active member of the Community Wetlands Forum in Ireland. Catherine is passionate about the wise use of nature.

Follow Catherine on Twitter @seewilkie and @IncaseProject

INCASE research project:

The Irish Natural Capital for Sustainable Environments (INCASE) project is applying Natural Capital Accounting principles at river catchment scale in Ireland.

Natural capital accounts will be developed based on the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) for four catchments to map natural capital stocks and flows of services.

The project will highlight challenges, knowledge and data gaps, and recommend a framework to operationalise Natural Capital Accounting in Ireland.

INCASE is an EPA-funded research project. It kicked off in March 2019 and will run until 2023.

See our animated explainer video here: https://www.incaseproject.com/animated-video

Natural Capital Ireland:

For more on our work, visit www.naturalcapitalireland.comand www.incaseproject.comand follow us on Twitter @NatCap_Irl at LinkedIn and our YouTube channel.