Event Reports

Todays webinar contained a presentation from Martin Ross South West Water

This event highlighted how three North East organisations are embedding Corporate Responsibility (CR) into their businesses making a tangible difference to local communities and the environment. A variety of tools for measuring and reporting performance were discussed including the Business in the Community CR index, and the Global Reporting Initiatives reporting framework.

The UK economy and our way of life depend on a wide range of resources that go into the products and services we make and use. This webinar, presented by Dr Stephen Bass (Defra), will discuss their newly launched Resource Security Action Plan, which sets out the Government’s view on resource security, provides a framework for business action to address resource risks, and defines high level actions to continue developing a partnership between Government and businesses to address resource concerns.

The Code provides a best practice guide for organisations wishing to create woodland to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This gives businesses a unique opportunity to mitigate their carbon emissions through tree planting in the UK. Woodland carbon projects also bring many additional benefits to the local environment, people and wildlife and contribute to the UK's climate change adaptation response.

The revision process for ISO 14001 recently began with the first meeting of the working group established to revise the standard in late February 2012. As ISO 14001 is the leading standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS) the outcomes from the revision process will shape environmental management into the mid 2020’s and influence the work of many practitioners.

This afternoon event will provide you with an opportunity to hear about two developments in impact assessment practice relevant to the EIA practitioner as well as a series of three interesting case studies.

A webinar in the Quality Mark series

The seminar wasdelivered by Burgess Salmon and the Environment Agency and provided attendees with an introduction to Civil Sanctions and the pros and cons for industry. Importantly it reviewed how the sanctions have been used over 2011 and what are the plans for extending the sanctions in the future.

Today webinar gave members a chance to hear firsthand from DECC the UK's carbon plan

Presentations from the webinar given by Vic Clements senior Associate and Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design at UCA are now available to view.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) voted in early November to start the revision of the environmental management system (EMS) standard ISO 14001. IEMA’s Executive Director – Policy, Martin Baxter, has been appointed to lead the UK’s input into the revision process, and we are holding a series of EMS workshops to give IEMA members an opportunity to contribute to the development of IEMA’s position in this important area.

The Government has approved the first ever UK carbon certification scheme - giving investors maximum confidence, and enabling businesses to communicate UK woodland creation projects in their greenhouse gas reports.

IEMA are running a series of Environmental Impact Assessment webinars presented by registrants of the EIA Quality Mark Scheme. These webinars will be presented from a perspective of communications aspects within the EIA process.

This event gave members the opportunity to learn firsthand about sustainability and how it affects their business.

The Forum is a exclusive event led by IEMA and open to those organisations registered to the EIA Quality Mark.

The Forum was not simply an opportunity for leading EIA professionals to gather to share experience and debate practice its outputs will also contributed to a number of IEMA actions to improve EIA practice, including:

An e-brief on considering ecosystem services in EIA
A series of lunchtime EIA webinars
A potential tool to value the influence EIA has on design, which we hope to pilot with a number of EIA Quality Mark registrants in 2012

This event was designed to provide an opportunity for practitioners working in, or contributing to, the field of Impact Assessment (IA) in an international setting to discuss developments in practice and share experience. The application of IA and ESHIA often relates to the project financing and are regularly known as Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) or ESHIA (H = Health) due to their wider coverage of social and health issues than EIA undertaken within the UK.

Josh Fothergill, IEMA’s lead on environmental assessment, provided an introduction to the workshop before handing over to the following guest presenters:
- Professor Kathy Willis (Biodiversity Institute, University of Oxford): Developing an computer based ecological risk assessment tool
- Ruth Golombok (AECOM): A perspective of ESIA in the extractive sector in Africa
- Callie Phillips & Shahila Perumalpillai (ERM): A social perspective of ESHIA
- Stanislav Suprunenko (EBRD): Environmental & Social Action Plans in Ukraine and Russia