Magazine April 2020
Transform Magazine April 2020
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Sustainability under wraps?
Why are certain companies keeping quiet about their ground-breaking sustainable achievements? David Burrows investigates
IEMA joined 27,000 built environment industry influencers and shapers at this year's Futurebuild, which took place from 3-5 March in London.
IEMA's Proportionate EIA Strategy has identified digital impact assessment (digital IA) as one of the four key solutions to proportionate assessment, and in 2018 set up a working group of members on the subject.
Developed by IEMA's Climate and Energy network, the Climate Change and Energy Toolbox is live and online at bit.ly/2wZ2xVw
IEMA's EIA Quality Mark (QMark) is a scheme allowing organisations that lead co-ordination of statutory EIAs in the UK to make a commitment to excellence in their EIA activities and have it reviewed. It is voluntary, with organisations free to choose whether they are ready to operate to its seven EIA Commitments: EIA Management; EIA Team Capabilities; EIA Regulatory Compliance; EIA Context & Influence; EIA Content; EIA Presentation; and Improving EIA Practice.
The Environment Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 26 February and is now at Committee stage, where a cross-party group of MPs, plus the environment minister, go through the Bill line by line and consider amendments, which will be considered by parliament.
The impact of coronavirus and government travel restrictions could bankrupt most of the world's airlines by the end of next month, the CAPA Centre for Aviation has warned.
Meat suppliers could lose billions of dollars due to the increasing financial costs of climate change and growth in the alternative protein market, suggests modelling by the $20trn FAIRR investor network.
The world's 35 largest private banks spent more than $2.7trn financing the fossil fuel sector in the four years after the Paris Agreement was adopted, the most comprehensive study of its kind has found.
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