Corporate Sustainability – Deepening our understanding of organisations and purpose
Uniting the energy of an organisation to drive positive wellbeing impact is at heart of the sustainability challenge. Dr Victoria Hurth set out a model for de-coding corporate organisations in relation to this in our webinar with special guest speakers.
Dr Victoria Hurth outlined some common deep-seated assumptions about how a company relates to the economy and society and whether they can successfully transition to being purpose-driven. Dr Hurth is a Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and is also Convenor of ISO37000: (Guidance for the Governance of Organisations). In this webinar, Victoria was joined by guest sustainability leaders including IEMA fellow Paul Pritchard and Will Gardner, sustainability adviser and speaker.
This webinar provided a deeper understanding of organisations and their context for transition. Many useful frameworks of sustainability/ corporate responsibility maturity exist that help us to think about impact. This session considered factors underlying those models and that structure existing organisational decision-making logics (helping or inhibiting our work for positive impacts and outcomes).
IEMA Policy Lead Nick Blyth hosted this session and added a connection to relevant aspects of the IEMA skills map.
“Business enterprises…are organs of society. They do not exist for their own sake, but to fulfil a specific social purpose and to satisfy a specific need of a society, a community or individuals.” Drucker, 1974:39
Presentations
Corporate Sustainability – Deepening our understanding of organisations and purpose, webinar slides - Dr. V, Hurth, Dr. P, Pritchard, W, Gardner and N, Blyth - CLICK HERE
3 Organisational Logics and their 3 Responses to Global Unsustainability - Dr. V, Hurth - CLICK HERE
The Solent: Recycling - Behaviour Change
Are you or your work team keen but confused about what to recycle or simply not engaged? Recycling has been with us for a long time, but recycling rates are not as high as they could be and contamination is common. The IEMA Solent event discussed how to improve your recycling rate, reduce contamination and looked ahead to changes coming in the next couple of years, including how to tackle drink container recycling through the deposit return scheme.
This session provided an insight from one of our IEMA members into establishing a ‘green champions’ network in your organisation.
Diverse perspectives equal a diverse range of solutions in tackling the world’s biggest problem. This webinar was hosted as part of LCAW 2021 by IEMA on behalf of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative.
The IEMA South West region held a special event which screened the incredible Our Planet: Our Business film, followed by a panel discussion featuring Rhiannon Shah from WWF, Nick Blyth from IEMA and Mike Barker from RPS Consulting.
Our final episode in our second Day in the Life mini-series digitally shadowed two full members who work in Corporate Sustainability.
The second episode in second our Day in the Life mini-series digitally shadowed two practitioners who work in Corporate Sustainability. If you are a student wanting to understand the progression of a career in Corporate Sustainability or a graduate looking towards your next promotion, this series will help you bridge the gap between theory and practice.
This webinar sought to demystify the new EU regulations that form part of the EU Green Deal and explain how they are interconnected with the work of sustainability professionals.
During this session, the IEMA Fellows network launched its latest thought piece providing cross sector case studies and recommendations by IEMA members and tech experts on how to ensure disruptive technologies can support a transformation towards sustainability.
