1. Environmental Issues Kenneth Grant Chairman of Herts and Middlesex Country Land and Business Association

2. Country Land and Business Association membership organisation for owners of land, property and business in rural England and Wales dedicated to defending landowners interests independent and authoritative source of advice

3. Hertfordshire Approximately two-thirds of the county is rural in nature, the majority for arable farming Chalk rivers 43 Sites of Special Scientific Interest The Chilterns

5. Looking to the future climate change water resources changing flora and fauna landscape changes

6. Climate change an increasing chance of warmer winters, with fewer colder ones an increasing chance of dry summers, but only a modest reduction in the chance of very wet summers

7. Water resources

8. Changing flora and fauna Picture of the pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) the County Flower of Hertfordshire

9. Landscape changes

10. Opportunities