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04 Comment Tim Balcon on the results from IEMA’s state of the profession survey, and how we build on them

05 Industry news roundup

07 IEMA news Push for chartership; unlocking Ministry of Justice effi ciencies; have your say on the code of conduct

09 Network news FEATURES Regulars 14 10 Legal brief 14 Interview: Chris Packham Regulations, consultations The crusading naturalist and broadcaster talks and court news including fi ne to Chris Seekings about his mission for Devon haulage company 18 Agriculture and the CAP 12 In focus Madeleine Rojahn looks at what’s stalling the Arctic temperature rise forces EU’s progress towards emissions reduction polar bears to move further distances in search of food 20 COVER STORY Agriculture and the impact of Brexit 28 The big question David Burrows weighs up the options for food Would a meat tax bring security and sustainability consumption down to the levels needed to limit 23 Reaction climate change? Paul Reeve on a role for clean energy in the UK

24 Data modelling Connect Richard Tiffi n explains how data visualisation can help to put stakeholders in the picture 31 Member news 24 Webinars on training and 28 Natural capital valuation other topics; quote unquote Angus Middleton argues that putting a price on natural capital is just the fi rst step 32 Member profi le Alex Herschel PIEMA, 30 The state of the profession 2018 environmental specialist, The latest survey reveals a narrowing of Guernsey Electricity the gender pay gap, more optimism, and a modest rise in salaries 33 Member success All the latest IEMA To download the full IEMA survey visit upgrades 30 the website: bit.ly/2CvsKYQ

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IEMA is the worldwide alliance of environment and sustainability professionals, working to make our businesses and organisations future-proof. Belonging gives us the knowledge, connections and authority to lead collective TIM BALCON, CEO OF IEMA change, with IEMA’s global sustainability standards as our benchmark. By mobilising our expertise, we will continue to challenge norms, drive new kinds of enterprise and make measurable progress towards our bold vision: transforming the world to sustainability.

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IEMA head of PR and communications hat does a 21st-century profession look like? I don’t Katrina Pierce [email protected] mean the tech we use, or how we manage global News reporting supply chains; but how is a truly modern profession [email protected] populated, recognised and led? We have learned [email protected] lessons from the 20th century, where traditional Sub-editors Clare Cronin hierarchy ruled, progression paths were rigid and Kathryn Manning diversity at the top was limited. But could our Business development manager profession be described as being correctly shaped for the 21st century? Daniel Goodwin W tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 6206 When we published 2017’s state of the profession report, I was delighted [email protected] to see high job satisfaction, career prospects, buoyant optimism and salaries Senior recruitment sales executive Katy Eggleton remained strong for IEMA members. But I was troubled to read reports of tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 7665 a stubborn pay gap between men and women in full-time work – a 20th- [email protected] century problem, but one that clearly persists. Today, as we release the fi ndings Designer of our 2018 state of the profession report (see p30 or the full survey results at Nicola Skowronek Picture editor bit.ly/2CvsKYQ) I am very pleased to say satisfaction, optimism and earnings Claire Echavarry all remain high, and we’re making progress on closing the Publishing director pay gap, which has shrunk by 2.6%. That’s great news, Joanna Marsh but there is still a long way to go before we can claim Subscriptions Kate Hampshire environment and sustainability is a shining example tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 2733 of 21st-century diversity and opportunity. [email protected] The 2018 annual subscription rate is £142. One reason for the pay gap is the under- Senior production executive representation of women in senior leadership roles, Aysha Miah-Edwards

an economy-wide issue. This prompts me to ask what Printer employers are doing to support the long-term Warners Midlands PLC, Lincolnshire career paths of talented, skilled and infl uential Published by Redactive Publishing Ltd female workers. The same question applies Level 5, 78 Chamber Street, London, E1 8BL to those from diverse backgrounds; how tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 6200 www.redactive.co.uk does our profession ensure workers have every opportunity to make it to leadership regardless of their gender, nationality,

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the 2018 state of the profession report ISSN 14727625 – is beyond impressive so we have a strong base to build on. So what do we do next to ensure that, year on year, we lead the way on recognising diversity and we leave 20th-century limitations behind? I’d like to hear your views. Get in The paper used to print Transform touch any time at [email protected]. comes from sustainable sources.

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representing $1.25trninassetswhen it animal proteins todrive revenue growth.” companies that are over-reliant on reputational andmarket risksfor contributions to climate change,” it says. use taxation tocombat meat’s negative is increasingly likely governments could Sustainable Development Goals –thusit are incompatible withthe[UN’s] old systemstothrive. surrounding communities low scrutiny ofairandwater pollutionon antibiotic use, poor animal welfare, and aff ectedsupply chains. be key tomanagingtherisksofclimate- argues that protein diversifi “increasingly ripefor disruption”, and livestock production systemsas to reach $5.2bnby2020. market toexpandbymore than8%ayear – says itexpectsthealternative protein represents $2.4trn incombinedassets Return) initiative, thecoalition–which (Farm AnimalInvestment, Risk& based products. spike in demand for alternative plant- A www.iema-transform.net companies to shift to companies toshift plant-based proteins The coalitionhasgrown from “Livestock production presents “These externalities and impacts It states that deforestation, unregulated The report describesconventional In a report published by the FAIRR Investors urge food proteins amidaworldwide to shiftaway from animal urged globalfood companies coalition ofinvestors has FOOD PRODUCTION cation will have allowed shelf ofthefuture.” reshape thesupermarket potential toradically is anissuewiththe the protein supply chain said: “Thedevelopment of sustainability, DuncanPollard, for stakeholder engagement in Nestlé, says thecoalition. capitalising on this shift are Tesco and market opportunity. in food technology, andgrowing regulation, accelerated innovation social andgovernance impacts, increasing awareness ofenvironmental, proteins, accordingtothereport, are: systems from adependenceonanimal signifi adopting meat-free dietssignalsa and that a growing trend of millennials sustainable food production model, alternative protein market off to plant-based proteins. an almostdoublinginsupportfor ashift was launched in2016to$2.4trn today – Nestlé’s assistant vice-president The best-prepared companiesfor Key drivers that willshift globalfood FAIRR arguesthat theburgeoning cant changeinpurchasing habits. UP ers a more NEWS ANDVIEWS ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY March 2018 20/02/2018 10:23 5 News

SHORTCUTS CLIMATE CHANGE UK green economy grows 5% No silver bullet in NETs The UK’s low- carbon and renewable energy Negative emission technologies (NETs) carbon removals at the scale and rate (LCRE) economy grew by 5% in 2016, will not be able to remove carbon envisaged by the Intergovernmental with data from the Office for National dioxide from the atmosphere at the Panel on Climate Change. Statistics showing the sector is now scale needed to beat climate change, NETs include reforestation, worth around £42.6bn in turnover. scientists have warned. aff orestation, carbon-friendly The growth was significantly higher than the 1.8% GDP increase recorded A report from the European agriculture, bioenergy with carbon across the economy that year, Academies’ Science Advisory Council capture and storage, enhanced with the number of full-time LCRE (EASAC) says that even if the NETs could weathering, ocean fertilisation, and employees rising by 3.3% to 208,000. be deployed at scale, they would likely direct air capture and carbon storage. Energy-efficiency products have insignifi cant ecological impacts. Despite the warning, it is thought that accounted for almost half of the total It argues that governments should NETs could still play an important role, turnover and more than two-thirds not assume future technologies will with the report arguing that technical of employment, with low-emission vehicles representing 60% of all UK be able to redress the eff ects of climate challenges in carbon capture and LCRE exports. change, and must instead ramp up their storage must be solved urgently. It says “inadequate” mitigation eff orts as laid there must be better control over the Record year down under the Paris Agreement. loss of forests and soil degradation. for offshore “Relying on NETs to compensate for However, University of Oxford wind in failures to adequately mitigate emissions professor Myles Allen said: “There is Europe may have serious implications for future only one institution with the capital, There was a 25% generations,” the EASAC said. expertise and resources to dispose of increase in new The report fi nds that there are no CO on the necessary scale, and that is offshore wind capacity installed in 2 NETs with the potential to deliver the fossil fuel industry.” Europe last year – double the amount added in 2016, according to data from WindEurope. The average size of new turbines and wind farms also increased significantly, with the UK, Germany, SUSTAINABILITY Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium accounting for 98% of the extra capacity. Report reveals ‘limited’ sustainability “A 25% increase in one year is spectacular,” said WindEurope CEO reach throughout global supply chains Giles Dickson. “It just shows Europe’s ready to embrace a much higher Eff orts to apply sustainability practices supply chains will be key to achieving renewables target for 2030.” throughout supply chains are having UN sustainability goals, touching more a limited reach, covering only a small than 80% of trade and employing more Paris looks to sue fossil fuel section of the materials used. than one-fi fth of workers worldwide. companies A paper published in the journal However, it was found that almost all Proceedings of the National Academy sustainable sourcing practices address The city of Paris is exploring ways to of Sciences reveals 52% of global a single tier in the supply chain, such sue the fossil fuel companies incorporate sustainable as the textile factories that sew T-shirts, industry for causing climate damage sourcing into their business operations. ignoring remaining processes such as after experiencing extreme flooding However, more than 70% of these dyeing the cloth or growing the cotton. and heat waves last year. practices cover only a subset of input The fi ndings also show that more Paris has also decided to materials for a given product, leaving than a quarter of these practices lobby other big cities including London to ban fossil fuels from the remaining upstream impact apply to only a single product line, their investments, after New York unaddressed. and that just 15% focus on health, announced it would divest $191bn The study of 449 publicly listed energy, infrastructure, climate change,

from highly polluting companies. SHUTTERSTOCK/ISTOCKPHOTOGRAPHY: companies highlights how global education, gender or poverty.

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SURVEY Members help shape more guidance

Last month more than 700 members contributed to a survey on two critical areas of practice, and their views are set to be included in forming new guidance and practical updates due for publication later this year. Members contributed to the dual-themed survey on the future of environmental auditing and managing environmental and human rights compliance by the time it closed on 16th February. The responses from the survey are now being analysed and IEMA CHARTERSHIP would like to thank all members who got involved. Contributing to our surveys helps us to IEMA moves towards better understand and address knowledge gaps, and to explain gaining chartered status your concerns and achievements to the wider world. Details about activity on the future of environmental auditing During 2013’s member consultation profession as corporate sustainability, will be sent to members in the which explored the direction IEMA environmental management and coming months, and the next should take up to 2020, members impact assessment. Sustainability in Practice guide called for IEMA to work towards IEMA has been liaising with the Privy on Managing Environmental becoming a chartered body to support Council to explore the process and and Human Rights Compliance – global promotion and recognition timescales of successfully applying for, which will use the survey results – of the environment & sustainability and being granted, a Royal Charter. will be published in the summer. profession. Following the revision Following consultation with its advisors, of IEMA’s membership levels and the Privy Council has confi rmed professional standards, plans are now that IEMA can progress to the offi cial in place to formally apply for a Royal application stage. Charter this year. IEMA’s Board, Strategic Advisory A Royal Charter is signed and issued Council and Regional Chairs all support by the Queen, and grants certain the move, which they see as a huge step ownerships, rights and powers to an forward and an opportunity to enhance individual or organisation. For the status of the profession. professional bodies, those rights All members will be sent full details cover the regulation of the in the coming months about the move profession concerned. towards becoming a chartered body, Subject to the approval of members including the date of an upcoming and a successful application, the extraordinary general meeting and scope of IEMA’s charter will defi ne the member vote.

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CODE OF CONDUCT EFFICIENCY Just days to go before code Sustainability consultation survey closes Our consultation on the revised IEMA Code of Conduct closes on 9 March, so be sure to give your view on the draft new code while savings could you still can. IEMA’s Professional Standards Committee is seeking input from unlock justice members on the name, scope and clarity of the revised code. The consultation opened in early February, and now just days remain effi ciencies before the survey closes. Go to www.iema.net/reviewing-our-code-of-practice/ to view report on sustainability in the the draft code and submit your views via a short member survey. UK’s Ministry of Justice makes for You can also watch a webinar, which explains the revised code “dismal reading” but does show and the consultation. Ahow effi ciencies could be Don’t miss this opportunity to help shape the new code, which all achieved, says IEMA. existing and future members will be held accountable to. The report, published in February, addresses sustainability “gaps and weaknesses” in the ministry’s departmental FIEMAS plan. With the UK government’s second largest estate size, the ministry has a huge opportunity to drive down energy Eight further fellows appointed and resource use to make a signifi cant in fi rst two months of year contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Martin Baxter, chief policy advisor at The IEMA Fellows network • Colleen Theron, Ardea IEMA, says the report is “dismal reading”, but continues to grow, with the International does highlight how necessary effi ciencies in appointment of eight FIEMAs • Ian Bamford, University of the court and prison system would help to during January and February. Cambridge fi nancially underpin the department’s core The criteria for becoming a • John Carstensen, Department purpose and functions. Fellow member include proven, for International Development In a blog published on the day the report visionary leadership in business, • Richard Powell OBE, History of went live, Baxter said: “The way our prisons and across the environment and Advertising Trust and courts are managed off ers huge sustainability profession. • Martin Farley, Kings College potential to improve energy effi ciency, cut The recently appointed London down on waste and reduce greenhouse gas Fellows are: • Josh Fothergill, Fothergill emissions; doing so in a cost-eff ective way • Christine Willmore, University Training & Consulting allows money to be ploughed back into the of Bristol Find out more at ministry’s core purpose.” • Andrew Jordan, University of www.iema.net/membership/ Read the full blog at bit.ly/2EEKMNr East Anglia fellow-membership/

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Are you aiming to achieve Full and Chartered Environmentalist status? Perhaps you are a MIEMA hoping to add CEnv to your CV and gain the gold standard for environment and SAVE sustainability professionals who – THE like you – are setting agendas and DATE leading initiatives in organisations 26 April around the globe. But how do you achieve such an SUSSEX AND SURREY upgrade? Join one of our workshops exploring the upgrade process. Book Focus on sustainability now on IEMA’s website. Upcoming dates Are you based in the Sussex and Surrey region? If so, join us for our upcoming Cardiff : Southampton: event, where you’ll hear from IEMA’s CEO, Tim Balcon, on exciting developments • 21 March • 15 March that are planned for your area. We’ll explore progress on sustainability challenges in • 16 May • 19 July travel, tourism, and transport with speakers from organisations around the region, • 18 July Cambridge: including Govia Thameslink Railway and Hilton London Gatwick. • 19 September • 6 March Our keynote speaker, professor Dave Cooper from the University of Chichester, will talk about how creativity and innovation are key to transforming the world To help IEMA members progress to sustainability. We will look at skills development in the region and market in your area, see [email protected] development for smaller organisations in the green sector. Network with local infl uencers as we explore how we can work together to cultivate change. To book visit: bit.ly/2EE7pht SOUTH EAST Refresh your CV FUTURES Are you transforming the world to sustainability? Save the date: 5 April Red Lion, 14 Kingly Street, London Many young IEMA members are doing work that embodies this mission, but that If you want to make the most of goes unrecognised. Whether it is implementing a new way of working, supporting your sustainability skills, why not get an organisation in achieving a certifi cation, or infl uencing decisions makers your CV reviewed by regional chair to deliver more sustainable policies, which young sustainability professional is and director of Green Collar, Sunny inspiring you, and how are they transforming the world to sustainability? Pawar? Learn how to shape your CV Get in touch: @IEMAfutures, Facebook, LinkedIn, or so that it best refl ects your strengths. www.iema.net/engage/networks/ To book visit: bit.ly/2ECLTJY

MEMBER ACTIVITIES Rewilding: an introduction Green growth masterclasses aimed at Sussex SMEs to law, science and practice The University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform is running a programme of Save the date: 25 March sustainability masterclasses, designed for busy SMEs in Sussex. Durham Wildlife Trust, Rainton Meadows They will explore leadership skills, building a reputation as a responsible First in a series of events looking at the merits business, social and environmental management, and how to win business, of rewilding our natural environment. The event save money, and manage the risks and opportunities of a changing world. will provide an introductory overview. For more information visit: bit.ly/2F8UAg8 To book visit: iema.net/events PHOTOGRAPHY: ISTOCK

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08-09_News_Netwo__Transform 9 20/02/2018 10:27 This legislative update has been provided by Cedrec Legal Information Systems, available at cedrec.com NEWREGULATIONS THE LATEST „ GUIDANCE „ CONSULTATIONS „ LEGISLATION

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1 JANUARY 2018 Biodiversity 1 JANUARY 2018 Defra seeks views on a 15 JANUARY 2018 Pollution proposed enforcement Hazardous prevention regime, required Waste substances New Guidance for by Regulation (EU) Defra has proposed The Control Pollution Prevention 1143/2014 on preventing measures to tackle of Mercury (GPP 20) on dewatering and managing the waste crime and (Enforcement) underground ducts introduction and poor performance Regulations 2017 and chambers advises spread of invasive alien at waste sites. They designate competent on dealing with build- species, including aim to raise waste authorities and up water that could monetary penalties, operator competence, set off ences and be contaminated with warnings, advice and change current penalties under chemicals, oils or silt, enforcement notices. waste exemptions Regulation (EU) and quality checks. cedr.ec/4u9 within the permitting 2017/852, which was cedr.ec/4v2 system, and introduce adopted to fi ll gaps in a fi xed-penalty notice existing EU mercury for household duty- legislation and of-care off ences for ratify the Minamata fl y-tipping. Convention. cedr.ec/4us cedr.ec/4uu

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1 JANUARY 2018 Ionising radiation Water 30 JANUARY 2018 1 FEBRUARY 2018 The Ionising abstraction Radiation (Medical The Water Resources Hazardous Waste Exposure) Regulations (Exemptions) substances management 2017 and the Ionising Regulations 2017 and Regulation (EU) The Draft Waste Radiation (Medical the Water Resources 35/2018 amends Enforcement (England Exposure) Regulations (Transitional Annex 17 to REACH and Wales) Regulations (Northern Ireland) Provisions) to add octamethyl- 2018 enhances powers 2018 implement Regulations 2017 cyclotetrasiloxane (D4) to tackle illegal activity Directive 2013/59/ aim to bring most and decamethylcyclo- at waste sites and to EURATOM to ensure previously exempt pentasiloxane (D5) to require waste from safe use of radiological water abstractions the list of restricted a site to be removed, procedures. (over 20m³/day substances, along including waste cedr.ec/4uw threshold) under with conditions that was initially cedr.ec/4ux licensing control. of restriction. lawfully deposited. cedr.ec/4uv cedr.ec/4ut cedr.ec/4v1

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NON-HAZARDOUS WASTE Haulage company fi ned £109,000 for dumping waste

Under current legislation, farms are allowed to accept up to 1,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste, including soil and stone, which is then commonly used to construct tracks and hard- standings. This practice does not require an environmental permit. OTHER NEWS In this case, however, the haulage company, CC Haulage & Sons, had dumped Illegal landfill more than 7,800 tonnes at the Beech Down Farm. More waste had been dumped at three site owner gets other farms in Devon. £100,000 fine The off ences were noticed after the Environment Agency examined waste-transfer A landowner in Cheshire has been notes that identifi ed CC Haulage as the source given a suspended 12-month of the excessive amounts of waste material. It prison sentence and ordered was apparent that the company was benefi ting to pay £100,000 in costs to the Environment Agency after being fi nancially by paying farmers less to accept the found to be illegally landfilling waste than it was charging its clients to take thousands of tonnes of waste. the material away. Eric Hale was additionally The company was fi ned £14,000, ordered banned from driving and a curfew haulage and site-clearance company to pay costs of £5,000 and given a £90,000 was imposed on him. in Devon has been fi ned £109,000 Proceeds of Crime confi scation order, which Two other individuals, for dumping thousands of tonnes of it must pay back using the proceeds of its Stefan Street and Dennis Whiting, soil and stone on farmland. criminal activities. were handed conditional A discharges after the investigation witnessedw all three men driving largel waste vehicles to deposit wastew on the site in Frodsham. CASE LAW The illegal deposits included Fracking appeal dismissed mixedm waste, demolition waste suchs as plasterboard, and The Court of Appeal has (Gayzer Frackman) to launch othero waste including carpets dismissed challenges from an an appeal to reverse Javid’s and mattresses.a anti-fracking group in Lancashire. decision, stating that he had The Environment Agency In mid-2015, an application misinterpreted planning and commentedc on the investigation by Cuadrilla to begin shale gas environmental legislation when anda subsequent sentencing of exploration was rejected on noise he made his decision. thet three men, stating that it and visual impact grounds. The Court of Appeal “worked“ closely with the police That decision was overturned explained that its role was anda local authorities to pursue by then-communities secretary not to decide if that decision theset criminals and bring them Sajid Javid in late 2016. was “right” but whether the to justice”.t This caused the anti-fracking secretary “had committed an It added: “Waste crime is a group (Preston New Road Action error of law”. On that basis, it seriouss issue, diverting as much Group) and a second challenger upheld Javid’s decision. asa £1bn per year from legitimate businessb and the Treasury.”

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10-11_Legal•CT__Transform 11 20/02/2018 10:28 In focus

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CLIMATE CHANGE Bear minimum

Higher temperatures are having dramatic eff ects on the Arctic, forcing polar bears to move greater distances and making it harder for them to catch prey, a new study has found. This has resulted in a growing number of bears unable to fi nd enough food to meet their energy needs. Published in the journal Science, the study estimates the polar bear population has declined by 40%, amid thinning Arctic sea ice in the Beaufort Sea area over the past 10 years. Anthony Pagano, study author at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said: “This study identifi es the mechanisms that are driving those declines by looking at the actual energy needs of polar bears and how often they are able to catch seals.” The study comes after NASA-supported satellite imagery found that minimum Arctic sea ice has declined by an area around a quarter the size of Europe in the past 30 years. “The Arctic is in a changed state, but by tackling climate change head-on and reducing our carbon emissions, we can help stabilise it for future generations,

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Wildlife WARRIOR Chris Packham talks to Chris Seekings about his battles for the environment and animal welfare, and how time is of the essence

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hether he’s confronting illegal Battling blood sports wildlife hunters, protesting in Although Packham is keen to avoid getting involved the streets, facing jail abroad or in areas where others lead, there are times when presenting television programmes, he simply cannot take a back seat. One cause Chris Packham’s relentless he gives his passionate support to is the anti- pursuit of animal rights and foxhunting movement, voicing his disapproval so Wenvironmental protection is unmatched. The crusading vehemently that he has been accused of spreading naturalist and broadcaster, who has been described as the “blatant political heir to David Attenborough, is on a mission to preserve the propaganda”, with natural world, unafraid to raise his head above the parapet the Countryside and tackle issues that many might fi nd too controversial. Alliance even I travel to a café in Central London to meet Packham, calling for him to be who arrives dressed as though he has just stepped off the sacked by the BBC. red carpet, adorned in a slick black coat, shirt and golden Packham says bow tie – a far cry from the customary anoraks I have the fox population come to associate with him on BBC’s Springwatch. can be managed Despite his dapper appearance, he exudes an humanely, but that unassuming vibe, and, as an obvious regular of the café, attempts to promote whisks me off to a quiet area to begin our chat. I start drag hunting, where by asking what it is that attracts him to one cause over an artificial scent is another. “It is not random, but nor is it entirely led by the laid down for dogs heart,” he says. “There are lots of people campaigning for to follow, have so far lots of diff erent things, so I try to avoid overlap because had limited success. there is an awful lot to achieve.” Instead, he says, This overlap is a cause of much frustration within the hunters want to environmental conservation movement, with Packham continue a “barbaric highlighting how many charities and organisations sport that belongs fail to work in sync, implementing policies that do not in the Middle Ages”, complement each other. “I don’t think that is an optimum adding: “It no longer way to behave, and I don’t have any time for anything that has any place in our isn’t effi cient and optimal anymore,” he says. “If someone society, is outdated, else is working on something and doing a good job, I don’t and needs to stop.” need to tread on their toes, I will fi nd something else to do.” He believes this He also concedes that some of the battles he picks are will happen sooner rather than later, pointing to both “calculated and manipulative”, with a statement he a national poll that suggests 86% of people in the made in 2009 about too much money being spent on the UK are anti-foxhunting, particularly young people. giant panda designed to provoke a wider discussion. “I “Tomorrow’s voters are not going to support fox wanted to initiate a debate around conservation spending, hunting – that’s the simple fact of it.” highlighting that we have a limited Another issue he has spent amount of money in a pot, and very little much of his time attempting time to spend it eff ectively.” I don’t have to highlight is the persecution There is a sense of urgency in of raptors. Illegal shooting has Packham’s voice. He describes a deep any time for resulted in birds such as the hen personal guilt over the amount of animal anything that harrier seeing their numbers species that have declined in recent fall to just four breeding pairs decades, lamenting a 90 million fall in isn’t efficient in England, when there should birds from the British countryside since and optimal be more than 350. He says the the 1970s, as well as a 93% decrease in the biggest perpetrators in the UK black rhino population worldwide. “That is anymore are those who organise driven on my watch, when I should have been an grouse shooting, which comes eff ective conservationist,” he says. “We are with a “plethora of ills”, such as a losing, and I don’t like losing. Things have gone down the mismanagement of the environment through the pan, so my point about the panda was to think about how burning and poisoning of land. “The whole thing is we spend our money so we can maximise our effi cacy.” hideous and needs reform,” he adds.

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14-16_Interview•__Transform 15 20/02/2018 10:30 Interview Piling on the pressure: Packham believes governments should use political power to tackle issues such as whaling

Last year, while making an He goes on to talk about the independent film about Malta’s Yulin dog meat festival in China, annual spring hunt, Packham was where tens of thousands of charged with assault and trespass canines are consumed every after confronting a hunter he year. As a vegetarian and dog thought had illegally captured lover, whose Twitter account is protected wild birds. Detained in a littered with pictures and videos police station for more than three of his beloved poodle Scratchy, hours before being charged, he Packham is repulsed by the event. was later cleared after providing However, he says that it is not the video evidence in court proving eating of dogs where the West it was the hunter who had can take the moral high ground, manhandled him, rather than the but instead animal welfare in other way round. general, where the West has a Despite the altercation, better record. “We don’t eat dogs Packham is glad he placed a but we eat sheep, and the Chinese spotlight on Malta’s spring hunt. would say ‘what’s the difference?’ “There are generations of people But you can’t just get away with unaware of what’s going on in the blue murder when it comes to Mediterranean, which is illegal and leads to the domestic animal husbandry, and especially death of about 26 million songbirds a year,” he Culling animals their slaughter, so I think there is a secure says. As with foxhunting in the UK, he believes argument,” he says. most young people in Malta are “horrified and that are Our interview coincides with an embarrassed” by the hunt. damaging the announcement by Japan’s Fisheries Agency He says his intention is not to stop people that the country plans to continue whaling, having fun, but it cannot be at the expense of environment is despite a 30-year ban on the practice. The wildlife. “My opponents have labelled me as valid, if it is done Environmental Investigation Agency says anti-shooting, but I am not. I am anti illegal Japan lands thousands of tonnes of whale and unsustainable shooting.” He illustrates humanely and meat and blubber every year under the guise this stance by explaining how a type of deer, of scientific research. “We could cripple with no natural predators, is damaging the scientifically. Japan economically if we wanted to stop environment in UK, reducing bird and butterfly whaling. Instead, we have all this posturing numbers and woodland regeneration. “So at by the US, UK and Australia,” he says. “Our this point we have no choice but to cull those animals – which is government could end that, but there is no will to do it. However, valid, as long as it is done humanely and scientifically.” I think that will change, because these things, like foxhunting, are becoming vote-winners.” China crisis Although Packham is keen to see more political pressure put Packham also believes western governments must do more on countries in the East, he also says that a a growing middle to tackle the issue of animal rights in the East, explaining that class in places like China has resulted in a burgeoning number 80% of the earth’s wildlife crime is perpetuated by or trafficked of animal rights groups. “So it is no longer only pressure from through China, from the ivory and tiger trade to deforestation of outside, but also from within.” tropical hardwoods and overfishing. He argues that the UK has been doing all it can to “get The greatest threat into bed” with China as it has developed into an economic Packham admits that he “obsessively” recycles, never leaves the powerhouse over the past 20 years, but asks: “Is that ultimately water running and keeps his energy consumption as low as he ethical? Is it ethical without saying ‘we will invest in your realistically can. However, he fears that efforts to tackle climate country but you have to change your behaviour on certain change and biodiversity loss will be in vain without addressing issues’?” Prince William’s work highlighting the illegal ivory human population control. “That is the single greatest issue we trade should be a source of inspiration for the government, face, but very few people will even talk about it,” he says. according to Packham, who praises the royal for taking a lead He believes this lack of discussion is why so few solutions when others seem to be too afraid to do the same. “Thankfully have been offered to the problem, in stark contrast to most he has been able to say to the Chinese in a diplomatic way that of the other environmental challenges facing the planet. “We this is a problem we need to sort out, which is impressive, and I know how to preserve habitats and redress the impact of climate think our government should be doing the same.” change, so why don’t we have the solutions for this like we do

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14-16_Interview•__Transform 16 20/02/2018 10:30 other things?” He suggests that many people would rather not Environmental awakening think about the potential impact of having lots of offspring Packham is deeply agitated by the way humans have affected because it is too big an inconvenience for some to contemplate. animals and the environment. His interest in nature came from It is for this reason that he – along with others including observing the creatures he found in his garden growing up in David Attenborough – has given his support to the charity suburban Southampton. “I would pick up my ladybirds, tadpoles, Population Matters, in the hope that more people will talk about frogs and lizards, and all of them were perfect,” he says with a the issue and own up to their responsibilities. “There is a limited childlike enthusiasm. “I was very intolerant of any flaws, and all amount of space to produce food, maintain these were symmetrical, had six legs, and so ecosystems, and so on. Ultimately, it is a forth – it was perfection, and I just became conversation we all must have, because it is the Social media fascinated by all of their stories.” one no-brainer.” He says that for many years he was His concern for the environment is what is the most “unfortunately, blissfully ignorant” of the has partly informed Packham’s decision not fact that many of these animals were in to have any biological children of his own. He potent new tool peril. However, during the 1970s he went says that a rise in the human population is in our arsenal through a political awakening amid rife inextricably linked to consumption and energy unemployment, industrial action, “absolutely wastage, arguing that the exponential growth for spreading vile racism” and football violence. “Then, all of will only exacerbate the “replace-rather-than- awareness a sudden, a light went on that said ‘it doesn’t repair society that we live in”. have to be this way, but there is no point in “Consumerism is what makes this world thinking anyone else is going to solve this – spin round unfortunately, causing all sorts you have to do it’. That was immensely of problems. So if you are going to have kids, do you eat meat empowering, and is something that sticks with me.” sparingly, or see they are vegetarian or vegan? These are things I put it to him that many of the television programmes he and that you should think about,” he adds. There is also a warning others have made are facilitating an environmental awakening. that, as with climate change, some inconsistencies might arise He agrees, but says it is social media that is the most “potent new in the modelling for population growth, the potential impact tool in our arsenal” for spreading awareness. it might have, and when. “But we know that growth is going to Earlier that morning, he had posted a video on Twitter calling be disastrous, so we have to address it. Otherwise, nature will on residents of the Isle of Wight to help save a 100-year-old address it for us, and that will be hideous.” community tree that the authorities had decided to cut down because of a fungal infection. In the clip, he appealed for people to leave a message on the mayor’s telephone, asking them to explore alternatives to removing a tree that locals had sat under for more than a century. Within hours, his video had gone from 11,500 views to 77,899. “That is [down to] one person in less than a day campaigning for one tree – it is an immensely powerful tool that allows us to form communities, which is a powerful thing,” he says. An independent study has since ruled that the tree poses no risk to the public, with the local council calling for an immediate halt to plans for its removal. It is initiatives such as this that bring hope to Packham, who says the internet and social media have made more people critically observe what is going on around the world. “I am not saying it is going to be easy, and we are going to get our noses bloody, but we are an immensely intelligent, adaptable animal, and will overcome climate change, barring catastrophe.” Despite his optimism, he often lambasts the amount of damage that has been done on his generation’s watch. “I am an impatient punk rocker, and we have lost a lot, which I am really distressed about – I know that I am going to my grave guilty, because I won’t have done enough, which I suppose also fuels my desire to work harder. “The only way to redress what I have done in the past is to know that I have done everything I can today.”

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14-16_Interview•__Transform 17 20/02/2018 10:30 Common Agricultural Policy Mired in tradition Madeleine Rojahn argues that the EU’s progress towards emissions reduction is being hindered by taboos and political complacency

ureaucracy, taboos and political complacency – these, efficiency, from managing animal waste to capturing rather than intention, are the problems with Europe’s emissions and storing them underground, she says. Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Politicians To achieve its goal of an 80 to 90% reduction in continue to dawdle in precision farming, manure emissions by 2050, the EU must simultaneously remove management, and other gobbledegook, but perhaps emissions from the atmosphere and significantly reduce they’re missing a point. Is a strong grip on tradition output. The new CAP discussions show a strong focus Bhindering the achievements of climate change mitigation efforts? on these technologies, but getting them implemented is Late last year, the European Commission proving to be a tortuous process. launched its communication paper on CAP Support for adopting sustainable farming reform, stating a focus on implementing Many farmers practices is available via greening funds, new farming technologies and giving more of which €2bn a year are dedicated to this power to individual member states. It notes find new purpose, says policy analyst Silvia Nanni, that tackling emissions requires diversity in also of IEEP. These funds are supposedly strategies, suitable for the diversity in needs of sustainable accessible only when farmers meet specific the EU’s 12 million farmers. practices costly criteria regarding sustainable practices. Agricultural commissioner Phil Hogan But proper reform is stuck in a bureaucratic, has described the challenges facing farmers and unfamiliar convoluted shell, as many farmers find new today as “immense”. In his speech at the EU’s sustainable practices costly and unfamiliar, research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, he said: “They and the purpose of greening funds can therefore be lost. are asked to produce more and better food while using fewer inputs; “What we have observed in terms of farmers’ uptake is they are tasked with reducing their environmental footprint; they that sometimes farmers put in place practices that are well are expected to meet evolving consumer demands; and they are known to them, perhaps traditional practices that need expected to cope with climate change and volatile global markets.” updating from a technological point of view,” says Lorant. Currently, 40% of the EU’s entire budget is spent on the CAP. If She adds that it would take several years to map how the policy is done right, it has the potential to be pivotal in reducing farmers are adopting sustainable practices. climate change. As achieving the goal of keeping warming below Tycho Vandermaesen of World Wildlife Fund, an 2°C fades further into the distance, it could be the NGO working closely with the EU to reduce beacon needed to lead the EU in making decent climate change, calls greening funds strides towards emissions reduction. “incredibly weak” and the “The reason why agriculture is important, premises under which they and why I think it needs to be efficiently are awarded to farmers addressed by the CAP, is that agriculture “largely unconditional”. contributes 10% to EU greenhouse gas Because of these emissions,” says Anna Lorant, policy problems, fundamental analyst from the Institute for European coherence with other Environmental Policy (IEEP). EU environmental “Considering the climate mitigation policies is processes, agriculture has a dual role, lacking, he because it emits greenhouse gases, but argues. “The at the same time plays a role in removing CAP risks greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.” subsidising In this latter role, the focus is on increasing farmers to work

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against the objectives of the that has the lead on this and it is always farmers, or people EU acquis [set of rights and very close to farmers, on this committee,” he says. “These €60bn obligations], [such as] the EU groups shouldn’t put those kinds of members in these Water Framework Directive, positions, but it is happening, unfortunately.” Annual CAP Birds and Habitats Directives, Political complacency, and a strong hold on tradition, spending = €60bn – and Air Quality Directives,” have diverted many from addressing the ‘elephant in the 40% of EU budget he says, pinpointing for room’ that is farmed animals – cows, chickens, pigs and particular blame the CAP’s sheep – which account for more than half of the EU’s Direct Payments pillar, of which agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. greening funds make up 30%. European animal product consumption patterns The bureaucratic shell is are devastatingly costly to the earth, with payments in sealed tighter by the European currencies such as land clearing for livestock grazing and Parliament’s Agriculture crop growing for livestock feed. To rear 1kg of beef, 15,500 and Rural Development litres of water is needed, while growing 1kg of wheat needs Agriculture = 10% of EU Committee, which is rife with just 1,300 litres. On top of having a higher meat and dairy GHG emissions and 40% personally invested politicians. intake than the global average, Europe is also among the of methane emissions Vandermaesen says this is one biggest exporters of these products. So meat consumption of the reasons for the CAP’s lack is an aspect that should be considered, says Nanni, adding of convincing reform. “Whereas that this element “should work synergistically with others environmental policies are in working towards climate mitigation”. decided upon by environmental However, Hogan has a contrary perspective. Last year, ministers and MPs who are he told Irish radio channel RTE Radio that “there’s no typically more aware of the evidence whatsoever that the intake of these [meat and Rearing 1kg of beef needs environmental challenges and dairy] products are actually contributing enormously 15,500 litres of water solutions, this is not the case for to the emissions”. Hogan himself has a background in Growing 1kg of wheat the CAP,” he says. agriculture. His perspective may be driven by an empathy needs 1,300 litres of water “Agriculture ministers and for farmers or a desire to protect them from revenue loss. MEPs, who often have a history Such factors explain the large counter-campaign from the in the farming sector, decide meat lobby, according to Alexandra Clark, campaigner for the future of a policy in which Humane Society International, who does not wish to see they may have vested financial her own line of reasoning misunderstood. interests – in some cases even “Campaigning for reduced consumption is often personally.” incorrectly seen as anti-farmer. We support farmers who EU target = 80-90% “Their consistencies are have high animal welfare and environmental standards,” reduction in GHG also farming communities, she says. And she warns that today’s political complacency emissions by 2050 who push hard on their may economically backfire in the future if policies do not representatives to defend a protect traditional sectors, in light of the rising popularity certain line.” of plant-based diets causing a market shift. Looking at the current “As more alternatives – such as cultured meat and plant- parliamentary board dedicated based ‘meats’ – are introduced in coming years, there must to negotiations on agricultural be a policy framework that supports the development and policy, it is notable that many marketing of these new products, but also prevents job MEPs have a personal affinity losses in more traditional sectors and negative impacts EU agriculture emissions with the farming sector. on rural communities that are dependent on animal

in CO2 equivalents have The large farming lobby production,” says Clark. fallen by 20% since 1990 in both the EU and within Whether this will happen is uncertain. Vandemaesen individual member states is “a calls the CAP “one of the most challenging policies to big problem”, says Reinhard work on as an environmental organisation”. The policy’s den Toom, environmental potential to be pivotal in emissions reduction is stuck policy advisor for the Dutch between a rock and a hard place, and the hand that is Greens. “They have a lot of so able, yet so unwilling, to help is being held back by power. The problem in the anthropocentric concerns. European Parliament is that it’s the agricultural committee MADELEINE ROJAHN is a freelance journalist

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Serving up a new future for food David Burrows weighs up the options for the UK’s agricultural sector following Brexit

t’s impossible not to think about food when talking about Brexit. “50% of our trade is with the EU. We are bang next to it and it’s big and it’s very rich. If there’s no trade deal, we are really going to be in trouble,” says Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Some feel that’s putting it mildly. “A food system which has an estimated three-to-five days of stocks cannot just walk away from the EU, which provides us with 31% of our food. Anyone who thinks that this will be simple Iis ill-informed,” says Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University London. Nevertheless, this is the impression that some government ministers are giving. George Eustice, the farming minister, claims the sector will be fine even if there is no trade deal and the UK is hit with hefty World Trade Organisation tariffs. Chris Grayling, the transport secretary and Brexiteer, suggests: “We will grow more [food] here and buy more from around the world.” Let’s consider those two suggestions. Importing more is a long-standing yet quietly muttered Conservative party policy. But all those imports come with a lot of baggage in relation to food standards, safety and sustainability – think chlorine- washed chicken, and beef raised on deforested land. Importers working to a lower standard could also freely undercut British

PHOTOGRAPHY: RICHARD GLEED RICHARD PHOTOGRAPHY: producers on price.

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Growing more food might seem a Gove’s vision for “a truly sustainable Indeed, we know very little about the good idea, too, if only there were future for the countryside”. government’s detailed plans for post- enough people to do all the extra work. It’s certainly a lot for ministers to Brexit food policy. Gove has made some The farming sector relies heavily on consider as they untangle the UK from interesting suggestions – including migrant labour, but following the Brexit European systems. “It’s critical, as we a unified certification scheme for vote, numbers are already dwindling. think of food sustainable food; and A survey by the National Farmers Union production and the future farm subsidies showed labour shortfalls reached 29% role of farming in “In the UK, 10% of directed exclusively in September. the future, that we towards the provision Growing more food also means either develop policy that total emissions of public goods such finding more land, or further intensifying looks at the food in 2015 came as soil fertility, new production. The latter brings with it a chain as a whole, wildlife habitats, host of environmental and ethical from farm to fork, and from agriculture” biodiversity, and headaches – from genetic modification we also recognise water quality. But to animal welfare – while vast, US-style the economic, health and environmental any action has been kicked into the long mega-farms housing thousands of forces shaping the future of food,” said grass, with no change to the current cows, pigs and chickens don’t appear Gove at the Oxford farming conference in system until after 2024. to chime with Defra secretary Michael January. Based on the high turnover in recent Those environmental forces include years at Nobel House, where Defra is based, climate change. In the UK, 10% of total there could be half a dozen secretaries of emissions came from agriculture in 2015. state between now and then. Many other However, the sector isn’t helping itself; ministers and politicians have other views it’s expected to miss its 2022 and priorities, especially as they try to woo targets under the UK carbon non-EU countries into new trade deals. It’s budget system, according to the all a bit of a mess. Committee on Climate Change “It’s difficult to discern what the UK (CCC), and there has been little government’s policy is at the moment [for improvement in the past food],” Professor Erik Millstone, food policy couple of years. “The expert at the University of Sussex, told pressure to reduce the magazine Poultry Business recently. emissions from “There are conflicting views between agriculture will departments, and even between ministers not go away,” says within the same department.” David Baldock, Millstone believes the UK could be senior fellow sleepwalking towards a chaotic Brexit at the Institute and food crisis. But let’s put the headless for European chickens running around Whitehall to one Environmental side and consider how the Brexit shake-up Policy (IEEP). could be a blessing disguised as a curse. And neither will The UK hasn’t had a food policy for the need for farmers 44 years. Instead, since it joined the to adapt as the climate European Economic Community in 1973, changes and extreme its policy in this area – along with weather events increase. environmental regulation – has been led The current heavy reliance on by the EU. “We have come to depend on imports will leave the UK exposed EU laws and money but they haven’t been to shortages and price volatility, but this working well enough, and they are set for doesn’t seem to worry the government. the biggest shake-up in a generation,” In 2016, the CCC warned: “There is no says Sir Ian Cheshire, chair of Barclays UK national approach to ensure the resilience and Debenhams. “[Brexit provides a] of the UK food system.” As yet, nothing’s once-in-a-generation opportunity to been published. The Food Ethics Council transform the way we eat and farm, and to suggests this is tantamount to “playing regenerate our environment and Russian roulette with climate change”. countryside communities.”

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Cheshire is chairing a new commission marketing of on the future of food and farming, ultra-processed organised by the Royal Society for the foods high in encouragement of Arts, Manufactures fat, salt and sugar and Commerce (RSA). The commission is – often targeted asking: what kind of country do we want at children – to to be, and what do we want from our food boost profits, and farming systems? food systems are The current system, underpinned by “making us sick”, Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy IPES-Food noted. (CAP), is hardly a gold standard for And when health sustainable food production: the number impacts are placed of farmers is in serious decline; the alongside social and trend is towards large-scale, industrial environmental impacts, production methods; and millions of the case for action tonnes of food are wasted throughout the becomes “overwhelming”. supply chain. An overhaul is daunting, There’s also a problem with the type but the idea has attracted “If policymakers are to cover the true of food we eat. In 1973, 45 years ago, some unlikely supporters. cost of livestock epidemics such as McDonald’s hadn’t yet arrived in the UK; In August, the World Bank published avian flu, and human epidemics such as now, fast food outlets and coffee shops are a report suggesting that price support obesity, diabetes and cancer, while also on every high street, and twice as much mechanisms for unhealthy ingredients tackling the twin challenges of climate food is consumed outside the home. – such as cereals, palm oil and sugar – change and antibiotic resistance, then As convenience should be replaced a shift from subsidisation to taxation of has become king, with support for the meat industry looks inevitable,” says obesity has become “Divorce from the healthy ones. “CAP Jeremy Coller, chief information officer almost the norm. EU is a chance supports arable and of Coller Capital and founder of the Research published livestock production Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return in the journal Public to redress the more than fruit and Initiative (FAIRR). Health Nutrition veg,” says IEEP’s Livestock production represents 14.5% of in February shows balance and Baldock, “so whether all human-induced emissions, according British families weigh up some we want to eat less to the Food and Agriculture Organization, buy more ultra- meat and more plants and there is growing awareness that processed food more controversial is what we need to to meet the targets within the Paris than in any other ask if we introduce Agreement, diets need to change. That country in Europe – policies” a new regime of some of world’s biggest meat companies amounting to 50.7% agricultural support.” are falling over themselves to invest in of the diet. Divorce from the EU is a chance to alternatives – including meat created in Many people do not realise that redress the balance – and even weigh up laboratories and plant-based ‘meats’ – agricultural subsidies have long been some more controversial policies. “The suggests they can see what’s coming. weighted towards foods that fuel obesity idea of sustainable diets [based on more Some 45 years from now, the food we and poor health. But the facts – and plants and fewer livestock products] is grow, process, cook and eat will be very the crippling health service bills – are a big change and it’s here to stay,” says different from that of today. Whether this becoming harder to ignore. Baldock. It would be a “big mistake to food is low-impact, healthy and affordable In October, the International Panel of sail off into the post-Brexit world and not could depend on the policies put in place Experts on Sustainable Food Systems think about that”, he adds. after the UK leaves the EU. Brexit will be (IPES-Food, a think-tank based in A push to encourage eating more chaotic, but it is also a chance – for the Brussels) published research showing vegetables is one thing, but the evidence first time in 45 years – to design a new many of the most severe health impacts – suggests the ‘carrot’ approach won’t be system that is fit for the future. As City from respiratory diseases to cancers and enough to curb obesity and emissions. University’s Lang says: “UK food security systemic livelihood stresses – are linked to The ‘stick’ of a meat tax, for example, is and sustainability are now at stake.” industrial food and farming practices. hard for politicians to swallow, but the From farming’s heavy reliance on sugar levy on drinks starting in April DAVID BURROWS is a freelance chemicals to boost yields, to the mass might be a taste of things to come. journalist

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will be a priority for funding. The government will also join initiatives Smart energy such as Mission Innovation – a global partnership for clean energy research and development. Elsewhere, the strategy assumes takes centre stage significant growth in zero-emission vehicles, with a road transport plan Paul Reeve looks at the role of clean energy in supporting this trend expected this year, plus funding to improve battery the UK’s recently published industrial strategy technology. There are also undertakings to invest in clean technologies for rail, aviation and marine transport. Further he UK government recently together an array of energy strategies low-carbon progress in power, transport, published a white paper and innovation funding. For example, heating and cooling will, we are told, that aims to tackle the last year’s long-awaited UK Clean require the “reallocation of trillions of productivity problem and Growth Strategy policy paper already pounds of public and private finance”. boost growth. Industrial sets out ambitious proposals for low- The paper then looks to the Internet Strategy: Building A Britain carbon energy growth into the 2020s. of Things and artificial intelligence to TFit For The Future highlights four ‘grand Meanwhile, the 2017 policy paper deliver desired economic, environmental challenges’ for government and industry: Upgrading Our Energy System: Smart and social outcomes, working with six • Maximising the advantages to UK Systems and Flexibility Plan will be priority sectors: energy, cybersecurity, industry of a global shift to clean growth joined by a ‘Prospering from the Energy life sciences, manufacturing, agricultural • Being a world leader in shaping the Revolution’ programme that will help technology and construction. future of mobility businesses to provide technologies that Construction is cited specifically • Putting the UK at the forefront of the will “remodel the national grid” to handle: as a recipient of future government artificial intelligence and data revolution • A growing array of clean energy sources support to boost use of cleaner energy • Harnessing innovation to help meet the • Storing electrical energy and less environmentally damaging needs of an ageing society. • Providing real-time usage data to materials. A ‘Transforming Construction’ buyers and users programme will look to provide “places These challenges have clear • Managing demand to live and work that use dramatically implications for low-carbon energy. The • Supporting vehicle/grid charging. less energy to build and run”. More strategy shows the UK’s ‘clean economy’, widely, the government will also be supported by the Paris carbon-reduction In addition to optimistic plans for seeking measures to encourage private commitments, could grow at four times aligning policies, markets, regulations, investment in domestic and commercial the rate of its GDP. This potential has taxes and investment to underpin new, energy efficiency. These measures put low-carbon energy innovation, and commercial energy technologies, the will need to align with the ‘Each Home smart energy in particular, centre stage. strategy says “clean growth innovation” Counts’ initiative. UK carbon emissions have been Low-carbon puzzle reduced by more than 40% since 1990, The route to clean growth is outlined while the economy has grown by two- as “developing, manufacturing and thirds, successfully ‘decoupling’ carbon using low-carbon technologies, systems emissions from economic growth. Only and services that cost less than high- a decade ago, this was something of a carbon alternatives”. Yet, while the cost sustainability dream. Having accepted of energy from nuclear and tidal barrage that a clean, low-carbon future will be technology is high compared with wind, good for productivity and growth, the solar or gas, none of the latter three can government is now looking to those who be described as ‘high-carbon’. As such, can deliver the necessary commercial it’s perplexing that nuclear and offshore and sustainability solutions to step up. wind get an airing in the strategy, while tidal barrages and onshore wind don’t. PAUL REEVE CEnv FIEMA is director of Having highlighted its favourite business at the Electrical Contractors’ technologies, the white paper pulls Association (ECA)

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23_Opinion__Transform 23 20/02/2018 11:12 Data modelling Putting stakeholders in the picture

Professor Richard Tiffi n explains how data visualisation can help non-specialists understand the complex links between natural habitats and the services they provide

core principle of the UK government’s 25-year environment plan is recognisingA natural habitats have a value, and that by conserving or managing these assets effectively it is possible to enhance the services this land delivers. The theory suggests that if it were possible to link good management with an uplift in services, then the steward could be rewarded for providing a public good.

Valuing natural assets Providing a reward for a public good is already happening in Dorset. Wessex Water Authority is concerned about build-up of nutrients in Poole Harbour. As an alternative to investing in a nutrient- stripping plant, at a cost of £6.5m, the authority is working closely with farmers in the water catchment area to tackle the

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cause of the problem and reduce runoff into the rivers. The parts of the country. This comparison would allow the council farmers are incentivised to grow cover crops that protect the to see how different management plans affect the services soil and lock in fertility. Everyone benefits, and the reduction in provided. For example, as water meadows provide natural water nutrients in the water can be easily measured. catchment to reduce flooding, it might be possible to see how In this scenario, it is possible to put a financial value on land flooding had risen in parishes where building had been allowed. management that is related to a benefit provided to a clearly defined stakeholder group. However this is rarely the case. The value of metrics ‘Natural environment services’ provided by habitats are complex There is much discussion about the need for metrics in natural to measure and have different values for different stakeholders. capital management. Even when habitats have a strong economic case, the location According to research conducted at the University of Reading, of these habitats can affect the value. Woodland near a centre of insects are pollinators of more than 80% of crop species in population has a higher amenity value, while woodland within a Europe, and the economic value of this pollination to the UK watershed can reduce the flood risk downstream. alone is in the region of £690m each year. As an economist, I have some unease about how good a If it were possible to say “xm2 of field margin is required reflection of the true value the existing methodologies provide. for ym2 of crop and this would create an uplift in yield of 10% A monetary value is a market value, and a market is just a means through insect pollination”, then this would provide a simple of creating a consensus over the value of a good. Ultimately, it is rule of thumb that could be used to incentivise the management the consensus, not the value, that is important. of marginal land. There are alternatives to creating an artificial market to However, there are so many variables that this approach is achieve consensus, and Agrimetrics has been working with always going to be controversial. Natural England to create a tool for establishing consensus on In our discussions with a range of players in the agri-food land use. The idea was to develop a way that big data – all the value chain, we have not perceived a great appetite in having information relating to a particular place – could be captured these types of sustainability metrics imposed by regulators. and presented so that it is meaningful to non-specialists, such as Our approach is to make it easier for people to do their members of a parish council faced with planning applications. own analysis. We have focused on creating a data model that The tool, Natural Capital Explorer, would put the facts into the describes the world as several concepts. It is then possible to hands of the stakeholders so they could see the bigger picture search for data that relates to that concept. For example, if you and achieve a consensus over value. wanted to know how beef production was related to weather, you could follow a beef animal through its entire lifecycle, Relating assets to services connecting it to all the places it has been and the weather for The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) those locations at that time. has been working to create logic chains that relate natural The user isn’t interested in a narrow silo of capital assets to the services they provide. data – they want to understand it in context. Logic chains are processes that show how biodiversity The data in Natural Capital Explorer is contributes to economic activity and human wellbeing. For already published on a range of different Defra example, pollination can be linked to food provision; carbon websites, but you can’t contextualise that data. capture by vegetation or soil can be linked to climate regulation; To see how weather, land use and water quality there is a link between woodland and clean air; and riverine have changed for a particular field over the past vegetation provides flood and drought mitigation. 10 years, you would need to refer to multiple However, these logic chains have proved difficult to data sets, each collected for a specific purpose. communicate effectively, and Defra group advisors have Agrimetrics’ mission is to flip the data- struggled to apply them in practice to help the communities that consumption model so it is not directed by the they work with. providers of data but instead becomes driven A different way of presenting this information was needed by the users and consumers of data. to show, simply, an asset and the services it can provide. The discussion and decision could then be around how best to Making the vision a reality manage that asset to deliver a portfolio of services. Defra and the various stakeholders already hold a significant Natural Capital Explorer uses the logic chain and presents amount of data; the issue is how to make it accessible so it can the outcomes in a way that allows the adviser to assemble a be analysed in a meaningful way. Our role is not to be the ‘gold visual report that they can present to multiple stakeholders as a standard’ metric provider, but to ensure that decisions made by communication tool to achieve consensus. others are based on the best information that is available. Together, we have created a demonstrator that is based on the water quality logic chain. It allows a parish council to compare PROFESSOR RICHARD TIFFIN is chief scientific officer for its natural assets with those of neighbouring parishes and other Agrimetrics, a big-data centre for the agri-food value chain

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Page 24 CREATING CONSENSUS__Transform 25 20/02/2018 10:34 The big question

THIS MONTH WE ASK... Would a meat tax bring consumption down to the levels needed to limit emissions and climate change?

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26-27_The Big Q__Transform 26 20/02/2018 10:34 Let us know at [email protected] if you have The big question any questions you want answering in a future issue.

DR MARCO SPRINGMANN MOLLY SCOTT CATO THOMAS RANDALL Senior researcher, Oxford Martin Green MEP for the South West PhD candidate in political science, Programme on the Future of Food and member of the European Western University, Ontario, Canada Parliament’s Agriculture Committee “Yes: but the tax needs “No: but it can be one to be at least 20%”” “No: we need political element in the fi ght” and structural answers” We needed to know how meat demand By itself, no. The meat tax can certainly might change in response to a change Taxing processed and factory-farmed form part of a much broader coalition of in price, and how high the change in meat won’t on its own bring down policies for mitigating climate change. price, i.e. the tax, should be. Estimates consumption to levels required to keep However, should policymakers choose to of the former are established by relating our greenhouse gas emissions in check. implement a meat tax, there are at least diff erences in demand to diff erences in But the idea has generated much- two issues to consider. prices as found in national food surveys, needed discussion about the quantity First, the meat tax must deal with price household expenditure surveys, or even and quality of meat we eat. elasticity of demand. While ruminant supermarket data. A report from the Institute for meat may be an ‘elastic good’, non- An analysis of such estimates from Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) ruminant meat is not. If consumers around the world suggested that for a reveals that the top 20 meat and dairy substitute ruminant meat for non- 10% increase in the price of meat, the companies have higher greenhouse gas ruminant meat, the burden of emissions demand for meat would go down by emissions than Germany, while the top may only shift. The production of non- 5-8%. From those estimates, one can fi ve have higher emissions than oil ruminant meat still emits signifi cant see that a tax on meat should at least giant Exxon. greenhouse gases because non- be 20%. But can we be more precise? If One way to encourage a shift away ruminants are usually fed with oilseed – we approach the taxation of meat from from regular meat eating is taxing the the production of which is linked to high a climate perspective, then there is an lowest-quality meat. Money raised from carbon emissions from deforestation. agreed method for estimating a science- such a tax could be ringfenced to support A diff erentiated meat tax would have to based level of taxation: assess the poorer communities in moving towards be responsive to this change in demand amount of greenhouse gases emitted healthier diets. It could also support to counter this shift, with the tax being during meat production and multiply training in schools and communities on higher on non-ruminant meat than that amount by the so-called ‘social cost preparing low-cost,healthy meals. currently postulated. of carbon’, a monetary estimate of the But we also have to go after the big Second, if a high meat tax were expected climate damages caused by a boys in the business. For example, a new implemented, there would be unit increase in emissions. free-trade agreement between South socioeconomic ramifi cations. It would Both those values can vary and have American countries and the EU would be a regressive tax, which would hit poor, uncertainties attached to them. But allow Brazilian meat producers – which working-class people the hardest. Given given all the uncertainties, we estimated produce massive quantities of cheap meat products form a ‘necessary good’ that beef should be 40% more expensive meat on cleared rainforest lands – to in most poor, working-class diets, it on average, milk 20% more and pork fl ood European markets. This would could cause a consumer backlash. If we and poultry 7-10% more. We estimated undercut the higher agricultural and want to infl uence consumer behaviour that if all countries integrated the food- animal welfare standards we expect of toward environmental care and animal related costs of climate damages into our farmers in Europe. welfare, an accompanying educational the price of the associated foods, that Ultimately, we cannot just tax our way campaign is necessary. The meat tax by would reduce global greenhouse-gas out of this problem; the answers are itself would risk being politically toxic emissions by about one billion tonnes. political and structural. rather than benefi cial.

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26-27_The Big Q__Transform 27 20/02/2018 10:35 Natural capital valuation

The aspects are then weighted for their relative importance: if happiness More to a is more important than financial gain, the happiness value would be more dominant in the overall, qualitative valuation of recreation. The qualification allows a direct comparison between services that use forest differing modelling outputs, expert opinion or local knowledge. The results also incorporate the qualitative and than money financial evaluations for those services where these exist, but ‘levelled-down’ Angus Middleton argues that putting a price on into the same qualitative mode. This ability to blend sources gives an inclusive natural capital is not the pinnacle of achievement and rounded quality to the rankings. but simply a step in the right direction The next level down is a simpler, high-medium-low (RAG) rating. This he financial valuation of be quantified financially, such as allows for services where there is little nature seems to have been recreation, timber supply and carbon information or where value is extremely become a holy grail. This sequestration. These should be objective. Again, the more precise process is helping to shape accounted for financially, but these qualitative and quantitative evaluations good policy. But the time has figures should be enhanced through are blended with any new aspects to rate come to move on. additional biophysical quantification. those services as high, medium or low, T Putting a financial value on For recreation, this process could include so as much of the richness of higher ecosystem services involves many distance to surrounding communities layers as possible is captured. approximations, assumptions and and their deprivation statistics, or the Blending natural capital accounting omissions. Take recreation. There are number and size of other accessible land with more inclusive methods based many ways to value how people use a units within certain distances from the on judgement and priorities will forest, for instance, including assessing forest. This information is expressed as enfranchise stakeholder opinion and the cost of getting there or simply asking a number, which is then blended with allow direct comparison between all the users. Such methods do not capture the financial valuation to give a unitless ecosystem services. the alternative recreational options the but quantified output, adding context For an expanded version of this article, go people have, the potential of the forest to and meaning. to transform.iema.net reduce deprivation outcomes, how the In our forest example, there are forest affects other local green areas, and no useful, equivalent biophysical ANGUS MIDDLETON is commercial myriad other concerns. In addition, they quantifications for timber production director at Viridian Logic do not allow recreation to be compared and carbon sequestration, so there is with other ecosystem services that no comparison across these metrics. have no financial valuation, such as the But all these ecosystem services can be forest’s biodiversity offering. qualified in a detailed way. There is a solution. The first step Looking at recreation, is to realise that financial valuation is such qualifications could simply a step in the right direction. Every include the number and ecosystem service should be valued importance of rights of way financially, where sensible, but effort extending beyond the forest, should also be expended in creating a or the happiness ratings of people range of biophysical quantification and using the forest. Every occurrence or qualification metrics. This will allow a reply at this stage is ranked from highest more nuanced approach to non-financial to lowest, using criteria based on expert considerations, and permit comparison opinion or experience. In the same way, between all ecosystem services. the financial and biophysical values are Let’s illustrate this with the forest ‘translated’ into the highest to lowest again. Certain ecosystem services can rankings, and added into the mix.

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28_ Natural Capital__Transform 28 20/02/2018 10:35 Advertorial

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29_Advertorial Centrica__Transform 29 20/02/2018 11:12 IEMA state of the profession survey 2018: Executive summary

narrowing of the gender than the gender pay gap across the whole “full of opportunity” came up the most. pay gap, an increase in economy, however. Women are under- Strikingly, only 8% felt that the profession optimism and a modest represented in senior roles – an area was “understood” by others, suggesting rise in salaries are where change is needed to narrow the that IEMA members face a huge three headline findings pay gap further. communications challenge in working of the latest annual Environment and sustainability with colleagues to transform their A IEMA member survey on the state of professionals can expect to earn a median organisations to sustainability. the profession. £40,000 a year, up from £39,000 a year Many members reported having The survey – which captures the ago, ranging from £44,000 in business achieved academic or professional views and workplace experiences of 1,053 and industry to a median of £31,250 qualifications in 2017 or an upgrade of members across a wide range of sectors – in the third sector. Around two-thirds their IEMA membership. Our analysis of finds that the median gender pay gap for of respondents reported getting a pay pay rates shows that taking such steps full-time environment and sustainability rise in 2017, although fewer than one in has significant benefits in pay terms professionals has narrowed to 14.1% from three self-employed members reported a as well as in professional development, 16.7% a year ago. This remains higher pay increase. with the median rate for members at Most members are finding their jobs Practitioner grade (£40,000 a year) rising challenging, sometimes stressful, but to £47,500 for Full members and £86,500 hugely rewarding, for those who have reached the leadership the findings status of Fellow. Gender suggest. One One source of opportunities to learn respondent says and develop is the sheer diversity of of their role: the environment and sustainability pay gap “We undertake 17% professional’s role. Respondents cited a wide range of achievements ranging from employee- projects, which engagement programmes to shaping narrows, are often complex of members big infrastructure projects or securing and challenging, were promoted significant cost or energy savings for their meaning that we to a more senior organisations. There is a healthy level of can constantly learn role in 2017 job mobility in the profession, with 17% latest and apply our skills gaining promotion to a more senior role in new ways. Our and 14% making a horizontal move either work is certainly internally or externally. survey not boring.” When Job satisfaction in the profession respondents were remains high, with 68% satisfied or very asked to describe 14% satisfied with their current role, and just fi ndings their feelings about 6% dissatisfied. Those who have changed the profession, career to work as environment and “challenging”, sustainability professionals find their roles “rewarding” and of respondents particularly rewarding, with satisfaction reveal made a rising to 78% among this group. horizontal move Given the scale of environmental and political challenges and uncertainty, environment and sustainability professionals might be forgiven some apprehension and pessimism as we enter 2018. However, IEMA members are raring to go, with a higher proportion of respondents (56%) optimistic about tackling the challenges ahead than was the case this time last year (43%).

IEMA SURVEY: To read and download the full IEMA survey 2018, visit: bit.ly/2CvsKYQ

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28-29_IEMA Survey•CT__Transform 30 20/02/2018 10:36 “Super proud to now be a full member of @iemanet and chartered CONNECT environmentalist! Ready to save the SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS FROM IEMA world! #letmegrabmycape @Kimberley Lasi WEBINARS

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31 Social__Transform 31 20/02/2018 10:37 Connect

Why did you become an environment and sustainability professional? The marine international and coastal environment marine infrastructure has always been an important part of projects in the oil and my life. I grew up travelling around gas and renewables the world while my father set up a sectors. Now my role shipping business, and also yachting focuses on assurance with my parents, who are avid sailors. and managing This passion for the sea, sailing and environmental marine life spurred me on to gain a BSc sustainability risks in zoology with a specialism in marine and continual ecology, and subsequently an MSc in improvement. I also applied marine science. act as a mentor and sit on environmental What was your fi rst job in this sustainability fi eld? My fi rst paid role was as a committees. research coordinator for an NGO in South-East Asia. This included What’s the best CAREER PROFILE managing monitoring programmes part of your for coral reef biodiversity, working work? Working on with local communities on schemes projects that reduce for alternative livelihoods, and training environmental impact fi shermen to carry out marine surveys or help the island meet Alex and become marine reserve wardens. our low-carbon targets and commitments to How did you get this? While reduce climate change. Herschel PIEMA studying, I spent every summer volunteering on marine conservation And the hardest? Environmental specialist at and research programmes. The Balancing Guernsey Electricity experience, life skills and contacts I environmental gained stood me in good stead. sustainability against corporate risks and challenges for energy-generating What did you bring back from this What does your role involve? No companies – aff ordability, security event? I learned about a geographic two days are the same. My time is of supply and environmental impact, information system (GIS) study to map divided between developing our or the ‘energy trilemma’. Achieving the distribution of marine invasive corporate environmental sustainability this requires innovation in the way species. This is a signifi cant concern strategy and environmental environmental sustainability is built for Guernsey, so the potential to expand management system in accordance with into investment strategies. this study to include the wider Channel ISO14001:2015, and leading on the Islands was of great interest. consent and permissions for a 90MW, What was the last development 54km off shore interconnector cable event you attended? The 2017 What is the most important skill project between Guernsey and Inter Island Environment Meeting for your job? The ability to analyse Normandy, France. in SSark. This two-day complex technical data and communicate aannualnn event was a it simply to the target audience, be that How has your role grgreate opportunity to senior executives, an engineering team or progressed? Early on, coconnect with like- members of the community. I was mainly involved mmindedi environmental in environmental prprofessionals from the Where do you see the profession and social impact otother Channel Islands going? Environmental sustainability assessments for anand the UK. and risk management are no longer a

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‘nice to have’; they now have a priority place in the corporate strategy and LATEST MEMBER UPGRADES boardroom. An increase in commercially focused environmental professionals ASSOCIATE (AIEMA) Adam Thompson, Barrett Steel will help close the knowledge and Michael Deakin, SSE Aidan Cuttell, Barrett Steel Brett Clark, Skanska Aoife Doherty, Johnson Matthey priority gap. June Tyson, Richardson Roofing Shaun Hoddy, TTi (Europe) Sarah Williams, Segro Charlotte Ross, McAleer & Rushe Contracts Robert Thomson, Spyder/Sonix Laurence Hanley, SKF (UK) What advice would you give Laura Griffiths, Freudenberg Non Will Aicken, AMEC to someone entering the Wovens James Tate, Meadow Foods Stewart McCollam, Sterling Thermal John Taylor, NOV Downhole Eurasia profession? Internships or work Technology Colin Waller, NHS Blood and Transplant placements are brilliant opportunities Gemma Moon, Multisol Hilary Butler, Eastern Shires Purchasing Simon Gadd Laura Moore, Amey to get experience and your foot in the Chukwuemeka Chukwuyenum Gavin Kelly, IKM Consulting door. Do your research; identify the Lee Donlan, Pladis Alice Tucker, Tata Steel UK Andrew Haigh-Turner, Quorn Foods Mark Skellon, Alun Griffiths Contractors organisations you’d like to work for. Avoid Susan Chamberlain Craig Brice, Saint Gobain generic applications, and tailor your Richie Bevan Scott Jenkins, Runtech Gary Fleming, Mitie Engineering Surinder Sond, Imperial Brands communication before sending it directly Services & IFM Anna Kalinowska to the manager of the discipline you are Cecile Lartigue Petit Jason Wakefield, Barrett Steel interested in. Follow up with Paul North, Runtech Joseph Lidster, Barrett Steel Matthew Dowen, Airbus Group Mark Smith, C & C Training an email or call, showing Katie Baj Tara Murray keenness. Bolarinwa Adewuyi Edward Reynolds Joanne Goodall Greg Baxter Matthew Thorpe, HMP Forest Bank Charles Rigby, Boots UK How do you use the Kirsty Castle, Batcheller Monkhouse Natalie Gourlay, Boots UK Hana Mainwaring Susan Brown, Kent PHK IEMA Skills Map? The IEMA Paul Clem, Ocado Kate Hunter, Ultimate Packaging competency framework is a great Michael Simpson, John Lewis Elisabeth Hammett, Groundwork Emma Clutterback, Celesio Jane Byers-Woods, VolkerRail tool to inform mentoring, recruitment Teresa Fernandes, Golder Associates Roy Garwood, Hutchison Ports UK and benchmarking of environmental Tim Evans, Avis Group Andy Miller Oluwaseun Samson-Olawale, Shell Madeleine Truman roles. I have particularly found it Craig Singleton, Etex Building Thomas Mainwaring-Evans, Cormac Solutions useful in planning my own CPD goals. Performance Anastasia Hayden, BPP Holdings Mark Murphy, James Donaldson & Sons Peter Speed, Etex Building Performance Davide Vincis, Siemens C/O Hemsley Andy Brown, Barrett Steel How would you describe yourself Fraser Euan Warner, Abermed Oluwafemi Oyetunji Kimberley Platford, British Sugar in three words? Professional, Paul Blackburn, Nestle (UK) Jessie Szego motivated, optimistic. Laura Shamsuzzaman, Jones Lang LaSalle Gemma Mudie, Zoological Society of London David McLoughlin, MITIE Group June Tyson, Richardson Roofing Katherine Gareau, Associate Member Kate Graham What motivates you? My Chloe Legg, Ferrovial Agroman UK Darren Lalley self-proclaimed ‘eco-warrior’ daughters, Jemma Cosentino Jonathan Standen, Lichfields Ryan Adia, Syngenta James Winstanley aged six and seven. Boluwatiwi Omidiji, The Nigerian Graham Dobbie, NOV Downhole Eurasia Stock Exchange John Laverack, Meadow Foods Clarissa Naicker Charlotte Thomas, McCarthy & Stone What would be your personal Adam Jones Julia Staples, British Safety Council (BSC) motto? “It’s never too late to be what you Emily Pearce, Haymarket Media Mark Mansell, Lonza Biologics Samuel Cook Mark Halpin, EDF Energy might have been”. Robert Milton, Alun Griffiths Philip French, Continental Chassis & Contractors Safety Division Joanna Drane, Hoare Lea Sharon Smith, Barrett Steel Greatest risk taken? Jumping into Sarah Morgan Thomas Brown, British Sugar the water at night to help resuscitate a Karyn Herdman, Kier Group Richard Gearing, Gearing Consulting Sean Gilmour, POS Construction Services 3.5-metre-long tiger shark caught in a Services Philip Branford, Marley Eternit fi shing long-line. Chris Conaboy, W.J & W. Lang Brian Holcroft, McCarthy & Stone Paul Skyme, Volac International Edward Leach, Serco Group Jayne Oswald, Barton Willmore Sarah Brennan If you could go back in history, Partnership Kevin Trotter, Barrett Steel Ltd whom would you like to meet? Paul Kiff, NOV Downhole Eurasia Duncan Cowper, Skills Development Scotland Adrian Sherman, Green Frog Connect Robin Craig, AstraZeneca Isabella Lucy Bird, the 19th-century Pricilia Teo, Syngenta Adam Chambers, McCarthy & Stone English explorer and naturalist. Barney Goodey, Motability Michael Knott Kyle Peers, BAE Systems Maritime Submarines Dave Sidebottom, Barrett Steel Dave Stevenson, Pearson Brendan Flood Glenn Davies Nicky Miles, Calders & Grandidge David Evans, Ocado Yvonne Bruce Visit www.iema-transform.net David Manners, Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Karina Williams, British Land Company for the full member profi le Allan Brinkley Lewis Dimmock, Barratt Developments

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IEMAJOBS Non-Executive Directors We are transforming the world to sustainability. Can you help us lead the change?

We are the worldwide alliance of environment and sustainability professionals who, as a combined force, influence some of the world’s biggest companies and biggest economies to be more environmentally, socially and commercially sustainable.

As the largest environment and sustainability body in the world, with 14,500 members in over 100 countries, we are powering up to optimise our influence and capability in creating a sustainable economy.

We are looking for two Non-Executive Directors who can bring their influence and experience to our Board, and help us achieve our ambition.

We are specifically seeking individuals who have expertise in at least one of the following areas:

Q Finance Q Legal and governance iemajobs.net Q Large membership organisations It is essential that all applicants have experience at The PERFECT PLACE to fi nd Board level, and preferably as a Non-Executive. the latest environmental and To find out more about what we do, our goals, sustainability vacancies the role of the IEMA Board and to apply for the vacancies, visit www.iema.net/jobs-iema.

To advertise please contact: 020 7880 7665 Alternatively, for a conversation with CEO Tim Balcon about the or email [email protected] vacancies, please contact Ann Guest on +44 (0)1522 559700 The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd April 2018.

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p35.IEMA.Mar18.indd 35 15/02/2018 14:12 Nominate your peers for FIEMA

The nature of leadership is changing: leaders increasingly need a strong sustainability record, while sustainability professionals are being called to step up and lead.

Fellow membership of IEMA is the ultimate indicator of significant professional contribution, experience and expertise. It demonstrates to peers, colleagues, clients and collaborators that you’ve made your mark on your profession. It’s about being an innovator as well as an influencer.

Do you know someone who should be a Fellow member of IEMA? Visit www.iema.net/membership/fellow-membership to nominate them today!

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