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IEMA's Value of Environmental Auditing briefing paper
Co author of the new IEMA briefing paper, Andrew Marlow FIEMA CEnv, provides insight on how this is both timely and targeted at explaining how management can support and benefit from effective environmental audits.
Air quality assessment after lockdown
James Bellinger (CEnv), senior consultant at Arup discusses the change in air quality assessments as a direct result of this lockdown period.
The future of learning: Environmental sustainability through online learning.
Dr Keith Whitehead MIEMA CEnv shares his experience of delivering the IEMA Foundation in Environmental Management course online and the business, sustainability and personal benefits of doing so.
Counting the carbon - are international standards always best practice?
Following on from the success of IEMA’s Sustainability & Climate Change theatre at EMEX 2019, Dr Matthew Brander revisits the subject of counting the carbon and explores society’s renewed appreciation of scientific exper...
Teach the Future: Campaigning for sustainability in the education system
In our latest blog, we look at why the messages from Teach the Future are so important as they campaign for an urgent reform of the education system around the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
The new normal – what does that look like?
During Covid-19, there has been lots of noise on social media about what the new normal will look like when this is over and there appears to be a growing agreement that things should change and that the current situatio...
IEMA Responds to call for comments on BS8950 – BSI’s Guide to Enhancing Social Value
In March, the British Standards Institution (BSI) launched the draft version of BS 8950 – Guide to enhancing social value’. The Guide focuses on the role of organisations in understanding, preserving and enhancing social...
The Third Way - Innovating workshops and training sessions for online delivery
This morning, I was going through my diary trying to work out how long it has been since I have been under Covid19 lockdown. It seems to be a daily (or hourly) swing between feeling energetic and positive to feeling anxi...
Physical distancing not social distancing – virtual coffee hours for sustainability stay-at-homes
Cup of tea at the ready, I waited for a few colleagues to join me for informal networking and sustainability chat. I’d arrived a bit in advance to check out the space and get everything ready. Who would come? Would we ge...
Approaching traffic surveys during the Coronavirus shutdown
Travel demand is ‘derived’, being driven by employment, shopping, education etc.. Traffic surveys always need to be taken at ‘representative’ times to be valid. They’ll typically be done midweek during school term-time, ...