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On 16 and 17 October UK Future Earth and the Royal Society’s Global Environment Research Committee (GERC) hosted a meeting at The Kavli Royal Society International Conference Centre.

At the Royal Society we are developing a programme on Living Landscapes to support the incorporation of scientific perspectives in post-Brexit land management policy.

Today, the Royal Society and RAND Europe have published an evidence synthesis on ‘The impact of ammonia emissions from agriculture on biodiversity‘.

Evidence needs to be critically contrasted, compared and placed within the context of already existing research.

Today we are publishing the summary report for our Science for Defra: excellence in the application of evidence conference.

Read more about using science in policymaking, the subject of a two day conference hosted by the Royal Society.

Read more about Professor David Fowler's ‘environmental quality’ session at the joint Royal Society and Defra conference ‘Science for Defra: excellence in the application of evidence’.

By any measure Defra is a department which relies on science to keep the wheels turning.