Event Reports

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

The scheme was completed in 2010 with sustainability as a key consideration including low carbon footprint, use of sustainable materials and community engagement.

IEMA's summer series of EIA workshops returns for 2011, with the usual mix of presentations and discussion
The discussion session at this year's workshop will consider both EIA and SEA (Sustainability Appraisal). The SEA discussion aims to develop an understanding of practitioner views of how successful SEA/SA has been at enhancing environmental consideration in plan-making since the Directive was passed 10 years ago. The EIA related discussion will provide you with an opportunity to provide your views on the development of future EIA practice and through this contribute to a future IEMA Position Statement on EIA.
Presentations were given by various IEMA Quality Mark registrants

IEMA's summer series of EIA workshops returns for 2011, with the usual mix of presentations and discussion
The discussion session at this year's workshop will consider both EIA and SEA (Sustainability Appraisal). The SEA discussion aims to develop an understanding of practitioner views of how successful SEA/SA has been at enhancing environmental consideration in plan-making since the Directive was passed 10 years ago. The EIA related discussion will provide you with an opportunity to provide your views on the development of future EIA practice and through this contribute to a future IEMA Position Statement on EIA.
Presentations were given by various IEMA Quality Mark registrants.

Please click on the link to see the report from the SBP workshops that took place in June and July 2011.

This event gave delegates the chance to hear about the water resouces pressures in Wales, the development of a water footprint for Wales. It also gave delegates the opportunity to explore the links to the food strategy and supply chain mamagement for Wales.

presentations were from
Aaron Burton, Water Resources Advisor, Environment Agency Wales

Professor Max Munday, Director Welsh Economy Research Unit,Cardiff Business School

Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP) provide a practical framework to identify opportunities to manage waste and cut costs in construction projects. However, there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of SWMPs within the industry despite the array of freely available guidance and tools. This session will provide useful guidance on the issue and demonstrate the waste reduction and cost savings achievable.

Green space is increasingly been seen as an important part of helping our cities to adapt and mitigate for the effects of climate change. Green roofs, living roofs and brown roofs are and will be an increasingly important technology. The ecosystems services that are provided by green roofs and living roofs will be especially important in regard a reduction in the Urban Heat Island [our summers are predicted to get much hotter] and help reduce the impact of flash summer storms that are predicted to increase as the climate changes. With 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, biodiverse green roofs will also provide an important refuge for wildlife in the UK urban environment

In an increasingly complex and challenging business environment, facing recession and financial uncertainty, IEMA is determined to position Environmental Professionals at the heart of sustainable business practice; leading, shaping and contributing to the development of a truly sustainable organisation.

The East of England Committee has designed this practical Conference to prepare members and delegates for the increasing challenges and opportunities facing today's Environmental Professionals.

The follow on workshop from the one held in Manchester last April 2010. All videos for this workshop are available here.