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19th May 2022

UK Overshoot Day 2022

19 May 2022 marks the UK’s overshoot day, and to discuss overshoot and ecological limits, IEMA’s digital journalist Tom Pashby spoke to Stephanie Hime, IEMA Fellow and Managing Director at Little Blue Research Ltd.

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17th May 2022

Seeing methane from space

IEMA's Head of Policy Ben Goodwin shares his experience of co-chairing a webinar focused on 'Methane emissions revealed from space'.

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13th May 2022

International business….within a limited carbon budget

IEMA's Deputy CEO and Director of Policy and External Affairs, Martin Baxter travelled to Berlin to speak at the G7 conference on business responsibility and environmental due diligence this week, setting himself the cha...

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13th May 2022

Eco-anxiety, in Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

This Mental Health Awareness Week, IEMA's Digital Journalist Tom Pashby discusses the rise of eco-anxiety and support available with Prof. Steve Simpson, Professor of Marine Biology and Global Change at the University of...

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12th May 2022

More work needed to get cross-government environmental policy statement into shape

The government has published its response to a public consultation that was held last year on developing an environmental principles statement to help guide policymaking across Whitehall departments. Here IEMA’s Head of ...

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11th May 2022

IEMA’s recommendations to Defra on Nature Recovery Green Paper

Defra’s consultation on the Nature Recovery Green Paper was launched in March of this year. IEMA held two member workshops which considered both this paper and the Environmental Targets consultation running concurrently....

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28th April 2022

UK Government considering changes to the EIA and SEA regulations

IEMA's Impact Assessment lead Rufus Howard discusses the UK Governments Environmental Impact Assessment EIA reforms.

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28th April 2022

IEMA - Defining Green Skills

IEMA Press Advisor Andre Farrar discusses IEMA and Deloitte's 'Greening your organisation: A blueprint for a green workforce transformation' report and definitions of the terms 'green jobs' and 'green skills'.

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26th April 2022

IA Outlook Journal Volume 13: Social Impact Assessment

Guest Editor Eddie Smyth FIEMA discusses the latest IEMA Impact Assessment Outlook Journal v13, focusing on Social Impact Assessment.

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25th April 2022

IEMA CEO discusses nature and biodiversity impacts of land use change in parliament

IEMA's Digital Journalist Tom Pashby discusses IEMA's CEO Sarah Mukherjee MBE speaking with members of the House of Lords (peers) about the nature and biodiversity implications of land-use change.

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