In part, the Nature + National Security Bill is a proposal looking at how to activate and deliver many of the elements of the CAN Bill. The Bill isn’t trying to set new targets or strategies, but instead drive urgent progress, now. At its heart, the Nature + National Security Bill, like the CAN Bill, is focused on science-led, integrated action for climate and nature. The Strategic Nature Network in the Bill is anchored to our international commitments, giving a duty to the Government to deliver 30by30 target, the headline global goal of the Global Biodiversity Framework to protect and effectively manage at least 30% of the world’s land, freshwater, oceans, and coastal areas by 2030.
The Nature + National Security Bill would implement an ecosystems-based approach to nature restoration and break down the departmental silos that too often hinder climate and nature action—both as in the CAN Bill—but via a new cross-cutting Resilience and Adaptation Commissioner.
Although different, the Nature + National Security Bill and the CAN Bill are both driving urgent science-led action on climate and nature for a safer and fairer Britain. Together with our Secure Your Future campaign and the work that Zero Hour is carrying out in the new Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus in Parliament that ZH provides the secretariat for, we are campaigning on all elements of the CAN Bill, but pulling every lever possible, rather than a single private members’ bill campaign alone.
