Caroline Alice Spelman, born May 4, 1958, in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, is a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Meriden from 1997 to 2019. She served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from May 12, 2010, to September 4, 2012, under Prime Minister David Cameron, during which she helped secure a United Nations agreement on biodiversity at Nagoya, Japan, and the Sustainable Development Goals agreement in Rio de Janeiro, and produced the government's Natural Environment White Paper setting out its vision to 2060.
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Defining ContributionServed as UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2010 to 2012, helping secure a UN biodiversity agreement at Nagoya and the Sustainable Development Goals agreement at Rio, and producing the government's Natural Environment White Paper. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Caroline Spelman (Wikipedia)
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Dame Caroline Alice Spelman (née Cormack; born 4 May 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019.
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Dame Caroline Alice Spelman (née Cormack; born 4 May 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019.
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Between 2010 and 2012, Spelman served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. In this role, she helped secure a UN agreement on biodiversity in Nagoya (Japan), and the Sustainable Development Goals agreement in Rio.
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