Adapting to Covid-19 – #BuildBackBetter – Critical insights to shape sustainable businesses and organisations ‘post Covid’
The Covid crisis has shown the urgent need for a better economic model. Many Companies in a fight for survival, recognise the premise for change. How can sustainability professionals help this challenge? Mike Barry, former Director of Sustainable Business for Marks and Spencers, will outline his personal thought leadership for embedding change post Covid. This interactive session will also outline IEMA guidance and sustainability skills standards, to support help professionals.
The Covid19 crisis has shown starkly the urgent need for a better economic model that works for citizen, community, society, planet and shareholder alike. Many leaders and Companies in a fight for survival, are saying ‘we get the premise of better but how do we do it’? And how do we as professionals help in this challenge to #BuildBackBetter?
Mike Barry, former Director of Sustainable Business for Marks and Spencers, will outline his personal thought leadership for embedding change, as we emerge post Covid. How can we as professionals, help to shape new models for business within an economy in transition.
Nick Blyth, IEMA Policy lead will present on IEMA guidance and sustainability skills standards, available to help support professionals on this change journey. The session will include interactive polling with delegates and invited guests joining for a practice focused panel discussion. Following the webinar, we will continue the discussion on-line.
This webinar is suitable for all professionals seeking insights for change. and especially for aspiring corporate sustainability leaders and influencers.
South West: Sustainable Wines Of Great Britain
This special IEMA event was hosted by the South West regional network and looked at sustainable wines in the UK.
In this webinar, we highlighted some of the key challenges in construction, measures that are being implemented across large scale construction projects; and highlight what effective mitigation looks like. The session profiled the role of innovation, presenting leading case studies with transferable learning points.
Our East of England event heard from the Environment Agency who provided an update of their East Anglian activities focusing on regulated and non-regulated business. They also gave an overview of the EAs work as a whole and the opportunities that a EU exit and post-Covid-19 pandemic world may allow for this Area in terms of environmental improvement.
This webinar moved the focus away from the typical ‘headline grabbers’ in marine development and considered some of the more unusual marine development which takes place around our UK coastline.
Our Yorkshire and Humberside regional event explored the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the environment, attitudes towards public transport and ways in which public transport operators are responding to the crisis, one year on.
Our East of England and Milton Keynes Regional coffee morning, welcomed guest speaker Alan Tinline Head of Environment at Associate British Ports (ABP) who explained how they are responding to the challenge of building back better, post Covid-19, in order to create a more sustainable and zero carbon business.
On this session we look at the measures which have been put in place due to COVID-19 and how have they changed our impact on the environment and what we can learn from this
From heightened supply chains risks to the development of a resilient and adaptive network, there are numerous drivers for making the transition to a circular economy within road infrastructure projects. Join us during this session to gain an overview of: - The opportunities and challenges in adopting a circular approach to road infrastructure projects; - Concrete examples of successful projects; - Recommendations on how to make this transition, including the design of CE route maps.
