Somerset LNP
Groups
Our working groups are there to give focus and direction towards achieving priority initiatives.
Green Finance Somerset
Aim: Somerset's nature recovery fully funded to achieve LNRS and 30x30 targets benefitting wildlife and people. Somerset as THE place to invest.
Role: To drive the creation of a functioning green finance ecosystem in Somerset that facilitates investment and easily enables landowners to benefit from green finance to deliver nature positive outcomes.
Nature and Wellbeing
Aim: Thriving people in a thriving county, Somerset people and communities are connected to, benefit from and take action to restore nature.
Role: Communicate, advocate and coordinate actions that benefit nature and people focusing on communities understanding, accessing and valuing the natural world.
Here is information on groups in Somerset​
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Food and Farming
Aim: To set out the contribution of the farming community towards nature recovery in Somerset specifically focusing on delivery of the LNRS and 30x30 targets alongside resilient farm businesses.
Role: This group will support delivery of the food and farming workstream of the Somerset Climate Strategy; provide leadership, raise awareness, influence decision makers, suport local projects and promote the value and role of nature in the farmed landscape.
30x30 (Local Nature Recovery Strategy)
Aim: 30% of land and sea in Somerset actively protected and managed for nature by 2030 (and 50% by 2050) through delivery of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy aligned to national and international legally binding targets.
Role: To enable local linkages between 30x30, the Environment Improvement Plan and Local Nature Recovery Strategy to achieve 30% of Somerset’s land and sea being actively managed for natures recovery.
Marine
Aim: 30% of the Somerset inshore and offshore waters actively managed for nature by 2030
Role: To source long term resource to deliver on the aim. To monitorand track progress towards the 30% target.
Science and Evidence
Aim: To understand positive and negative changes to the natural environment in Somerset, and assess achievements of the LNRS and national biodiversity targets including the Environmental Improvement Plan.
Role: Deliver a Somerset State of Nature report in line with LNRS review process and communicate findings that set out patterns and trends for nature in the county and monitor progress to delivery of 30x30 and LNRS
Somerset Catchment Partnership - Aligned Partnership not managed by LNP
Aim: Work in partnership to improve Somerset's water environment and provide wider benefits for people and nature at a catchment scale following the Catchment Based Approach
Role: Support the Somerset Catchment Partnership in its mission. This group will communicate how the Catchment Partnership is contributing to LNRS and 30x30.