matt roberts
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Growing Landscapes
The value and relevance of Protected Landscapes as dynamic living landscapes that underpin the UK’s sustainable economic success.
Mat RobertsGlobal Sustainability Strategy Director
Interserve PLC
Redefining the future
Interserve PLC• Global Construction and Support Services Company
• 140 years old
• 85,000 people
• We clean over 16,000 high speed trains a year in Spain
• We're building a recycling and renewable energy centre in Glasgow that will save 90,000 tonnes of Co2 a year
• Over one billion shoppers use environments we support
• We are the UKs largest land management business with over 240,000 ha of land
• We built the UK's first anaerobic crop digester plant at Stoke Bardolph, generating 15,000MWh of power per year
• We are the largest single provider of probation and rehabilitation services for the Ministry of Justice, managing more than 35,000 offenders a year
• We are building Doha Festival City - the largest retail development in Qatar, a 250,000 square metre mall housing over 550 stores, 85 restaurants and cafes, and an 8,000 space car park.
• Our specialist equipment services business, RMD Kwikform, is involved in 3,000 construction projects around the world at any one time.
• We have 234 offices around the world.
• We completed 1 building project every day for the last 40 yearsRedefining the future
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Redefining the future #nature doesn’t need people
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Sustainable Landscape Sustainable Growth
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Demographics
Rise of the individual
Enabling technology
Economic interconnectedness
Public debt
Economic power shift
Climate change
Resource stress
Urbanization
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The value of collaboration across economic and environmental sectors
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What are the three biggest environmental threats to the economy (in your view)?
Climate Change
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Water
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Lack of Talent
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