Environmental Audit Committee
17 June 2026
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Environmental Audit Committee Actual start House of Commons
18:38 - 19:38
Speaker 1
Order, order. Welcome everybody to the first in the Environmental Audit Committee's new look into the Department of Her Majesty's Treasury and the economics of climate and nature. The Environmental Audit Committee periodically looks at the performance of one government department or another. And I think this is possibly the first time that we have assessed the role of the Treasury in the economics of climate and nature.
And we've got an excellent panel, two excellent panels today to help us with beginning this inquiry. If I could start by inviting our panelists to introduce themselves and the organisations, particularly Professor Groom, we're dying to know what a Dragon Capital Chair is. So if you could touch upon the roles that you hold, and then we'll get into the session.
19:38 - 20:03
Speaker 2
Thank you. My name is Ben Groom. I am the Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. And this is a philanthropically funded chair at Exeter University. And I'm part of the LEAP Center, Land Economics, Environment and Policy in the Department of Economics there.
The Dragon Capital bit is the philanthropist Dominic Scriven OBE who runs the asset management company but has an interest in biodiversity and funded a chair.
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