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Climate Change Transitions – Professional challenges and the need to mainstream
IEMA Policy and Engagement Lead Nick Blyth reflects on the launch of new ISO Guide 84 Guidelines for addressing climate change in standards.
Take climate action: key points from the IEMA Climate Change Series
Business as usual is no longer applicable with the whole world facing a climate and environmental emergency. As practitioners, IEMA members are perfectly positioned to drive transformational change, reduce emissions and ...
Working from home: IEMA employee experience
Back in Feb 2020 I celebrated 27 years working for IEMA (and its predecessors) – who would have thought that within a matter of a few short weeks the world would have changed so dramatically. My roles at IEMA have been m...
The First Value: Embedding Climate Justice within the Built Environment
In 1991, the moral and political philosopher John Rawls stipulated that ‘justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought’. In other words, when decisions are first made about how a s...
IEMA Comment - EIA and Planning Reform
The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) has long been an advocate of good practice in EIA, working with developers, statutory bodies and consultants to ensure that the effects of development are a...
The New London Plan: 8 Principles for Climate Justice
According to Friends of the Earth, climate justice will be achieved when inclusive progress is made 'towards equity and the protection and realisation of human rights whilst addressing the climate crisis'. But without ju...
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...