Events

Preparing for Mandatory Carbon Reporting - A joint IEMA/ ICAEW Webinar

This webinar will help you to understand and prepare for GHG reporting, following Government’s decision to implement a mandatory GHG reporting requirement on all UK quoted companies from 2013. Presentations will include

1) Welcome and introduction – Richard Spencer, ICAEW

2) Outline of the main GHG reporting requirements and update on forthcoming guidance – Carla Hopkins, Defra.

3) Case study and leading perspective on preparing for GHG reporting with considerations from practice - Bekir Andrews, Balfour Beatty

The webinar provides members with the opportunity to hear directly from the Defra on phase 1 of its Smarter Environmental Regulation Review, with a focus on developing smarter guidance and data reporting.

As part of the Government’s Smarter Environmental Regulation Review, Defra is consulting on new approaches to Guidance and Data Reporting. Defra guidance is being rationalised over the next year, cancelling guidance that is no longer required, and simplifying the rest, making it as clear as possible what businesses need to do to stay compliant with environmental law. It will also make sure all the guidance is on one website- gov.uk, the UK government’s new single portal for all government related business.

The European Commission has launched two new guidance documents to provide direction to EIA and SEA on integrating enhanced consideration of climate change and biodiversity effects into practice. This webinar will provide and overview of the key messages from both guides, with anticipated presentations from the Commission and Collingwood Environmental Planning (the UK consultancy that was a key part of the Group that produced the guide).

IEMA has played a key role in championing greater consideration of climate change in impact assessment. In relation to this guide we hosted the Commission's initial research into its production within a series of session's Josh Fothergill organised and Co-Chaired at an international conference on Climate Change & IA in Aalborg (Denmark) in October 2010.

This event, co-hosted by UKGBC, the IEMA South East Region and CIRIA, will provide an introductory overview of knowledge and information resources for sustainable construction, including the new PinPoint website launched by UKGBC at Ecobuild in March 2013, CIRIA’s catalogue of guidance publications, and the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network (MBE KTN). Delegates will be given the opportunity to learn how other industry professionals utilise information resources and quiz the custodians of these resources. The event is free to attend and is open to all, however priority will be given to IEMA, UKGBC and CIRIA members.