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23rd September 2021

IEMA invites all members – current and future – to Connect, our first annual conference

The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) is inviting all members, current and future, to our first annual conference called IEMA Connect.

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16th September 2021

Celebrating 6 months of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative

IEMA’s Diverse Sustainability Initiative is a collaborative programme of work with the vision to transform diversity, within the sustainability profession and wider environment sector. It is coordinated and managed by se...

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15th September 2021

ISO 14001 25 year anniversary marked by co-creator, IEMA’s Martin Baxter

Today, Wednesday 15 September 2021, marks the 25th Anniversary of the ISO 14001 standard. To mark the anniversary, IEMA’s Digital Journalist Tom Pashby asked IEMA’s Director of Policy and External Affairs Martin Baxter, ...

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13th September 2021

Establishing effective environmental review

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have recently closed a consultation on amending the Civil Procedure Rules to establish environmental review. IEMA made a short response to this consultation,...

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23rd August 2021

Digital Sobriety: How to Make Our IT Circular

IEMA Sustainability Impact Award Winners for Circular Economy 2020, Techbuyer discuss sustainable solutions for the use of IT equipment in part three of their series on this topical issue.

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19th August 2021

Ministers speaking at IEMA-hosted event on empowering local leaders

Two government ministers will be speaking at an online event on 7 September run by the Broadway Initiative and hosted by IEMA. DEFRA minister Rebecca Pow MP and Minister of State for Housing Christopher Pincher MP will b...

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13th August 2021

Digital Sobriety: Reducing the Impact of Data Centres (Part 2)

IEMA Sustainability Impact Award Winners for Circular Economy 2020, Techbuyer discuss the impact of data centres in part two of their series on this topical issue.

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9th August 2021

IPCC report ‘unequivocal’ on human-driven climate emergency

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international group of climate scientists, has today published its report on the ‘physical science basis’ for its current assessment of climate change.

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28th July 2021

Digital Sobriety: What Does IT Equipment Cost the Planet to Produce? (Part 1)

IEMA Sustainability Impact Award Winners for Circular Economy 2020, Techbuyer discuss the impact of that the technology we use on a daily basis has on the environment in part one of their series on this topical issue.

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21st July 2021

Zoom Vs Vroom

Contributor Vilnis Vesma explores the very topical subject of the last year of working - the transition to online meetings for many organisations. As the country opens up from the Covid restrictions, questions are arisin...

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