Bio: Kaley Hart is a Policy Analyst for the EU CAP Network, in the CAP Implementation Contact Point. She focuses on environment and climate aspects of the Common Agricultural Policy, carrying out analysis and works with Member State authorities and other stakeholders to improve CAP implementation on a range of topics. She also works for the Institute for European Environmental Policy, where she is Associate Research Director and has led many large, pan-European projects on how policies are delivering against environmental and climate targets. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, a member of the College of Experts for England's Office for Environmental Protection and sits on the Policy and Campaigns Committee of CPRE, the Countryside Charity.  Prior to joining IEEP she worked on land management policy issues at UK government advisory bodies, as a campaigner at an NGO and as a researcher at the University of London.

Talk outline: The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a major source of funding to support the management and restoration of biodiversity.  This presentation will look at the measures available under the 2023-2027 CAP that can be used to protect biodiversity.  It will draw on the work of a recent EU CAP Network Thematic Group on ‘Enhancing Biodiversity on farmland for improved resilience, to provide example of how Member States are using these, particularly with a focus on landscape scale approaches and their potential to provide nature based solutions to enable landscapes to adapt to climate change.