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p02.IEMA.JUNE18.indd 24 18/05/2018 12:36 Contents JUNE Upfront
04 Comment Tim Balcon on pledges and promises, and exciting times ahead
05 Industry news roundup
08 IEMA news #PledgeLessPlastic for World Environment day; members vote YES for Chartership Regulars 14 10 Legal brief Regulations, consultations FEATURES and court news 18 12 In focus 14 Interview: Jeanne Frith A ‘supercolony’ of penguins Huw Morris speaks to the founding raises hopes for species member of Grow Dat Youth Farm, a sustainable food project designed to 24 The big question mentor and develop young leaders Would universal basic income bring an end to poverty 18 COVER STORY and inequality? Technology Chris Seekings on how drones are at the 31 Quickfi re quiz forefront of tackling environmental threats Peter Bosshard from Unfriend Coal on insurers’ progress in 21 Satellite observation cutting ties with coal Richard Tipper explains how earth- observing technologies could rewrite the future of farming Connect 22 Decarbonisation 32 Member news As Manchester pursues its zero-carbon Events; Quote unquote; 21 goals, Catherine Early looks at the science- Network news; Member news based tool that has a promising future
33 Member profi le 26 Big data Muhammad Ali MIEMA, Consumer data breaches may have hit the environmental manager, headlines, but David Burrows says data still Transport for London has potential for more ethical applications
34 Book review 28 Blockchain Factfulness by Hans Rosling Shamir Ghumra and Harriet Cooper examine distributed ledger 34 Member success 26 technologies and their feasibility in All the latest IEMA upgrades the built environment
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03_Contents__Transform 3 21/05/2018 10:20 Comment
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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Editor Sharon Maguire promises [email protected] IEMA head of PR and communications Katrina Pierce o much of what we deal with in our everyday work involves broken [email protected] promises. Missed governmental targets, delayed consultations, nations News reporting [email protected] withdrawing from agreements, dealing with clients’ non-conformance; [email protected]
it’s just what we have to face so we can either adapt or mitigate to get on. Sub-editors But it’s not what drives us. Focusing on the positive, the achievements and Caroline Taylor Kathryn Manning the possibility – that’s the motivator. Business development manager Over the past few months, I’ve been delighted to see so much evidence Daniel Goodwin of members backing each other and giving congratulations when others achieve their tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 6206 S [email protected] career goals – the promises we make to ourselves. When members have delivered Recruitment sales executive new guidance documents or written articles for TRANSFORM, I see message after Asheley Martung message of “great read” on Twitter and LinkedIn, and it never fails to remind me of tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 7555 [email protected] this alliance’s unique and positive force. Further proof, if needed, is your energetic Designer response to our campaign to support World Environment Day on 5 June. In early Callum Tomsett
May, we launched our #PledgeLessPlastic movement, and to say members have got Picture editor involved is an understatement. We’re seeing many pledges to tackle plastic pollution Claire Echavarry from members – and through them, their colleagues, Publishing director Joanna Marsh family and friends. It’s massively exciting and a great Subscriptions demonstration of what we achieve together. Kate Hampshire And, just two weeks ago, we assembled to make tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 2733 [email protected] something very exciting happen and deliver a single The 2018 annual subscription rate is £142.
mutual goal – to catalyse our journey to Chartership. Production manager Following fi ve years of work, we were able to keep Aysha Miah-Edwards our promise to hold a Royal Charter vote. That took Printer Warners Midlands PLC, Lincolnshire place on 15 May, and your enthusiasm was Published by beyond what we could have expected. You Redactive Publishing Ltd kept your promise to support the journey to Level 5, 78 Chamber Street, London, E1 8BL tel: +44 (0) 20 7880 6200 Chartership with a very defi nite backing www.redactive.co.uk for our ambitions. I’m delighted to say that we’ve now been able to confi dently submit our application. © IEMA 2018 I would like to say an enormous thank This magazine aims to include a broad range of opinion and articles that do not necessarily refl ect the views of IEMA; nor should such opinions you for your support throughout this be relied upon as statements of fact. journey, which extends back across All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or the membership level review, rebrand otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher and editor. and governance changes. We could ISSN 14727625 not have got to this point without your inspiration and dedication. Also, congratulations, as your professional body is all set to become Chartered in the near future. This is a true validation for all we’ve done, and I’m excited about
all we’ve yet to achieve together. I promise. The paper used to print Transform comes from sustainable sources. The polywrap used is of food grade standard and recyclable by any reprocessing plant. Visit: transform. iema.net/think-green. Information on the recycling of 4 June 2018 polythene can be found at www.polyprint.co.uk/recycling
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One billion people still without electricity Adnan Z. Amin. Z. Adnan director-general IRENA said a sustainable energy future,” toachieve action deliberate more take and goals, climate and development sustainable tomeet energy ofrenewable power the harnessing usual approach. abusiness-as- under 2030 by access without be will 674 people million that predicting report the with areas, rural in live electricity without those fi the data, defi access largest the with areas the remain Asia South and Africa Sub-Saharan that shows which (IRENA), Agency Energy Renewable International the electricity. without living still worldwide people onebillion with continue, trends current if 2030 all by “We must be more ambitious in in ambitious more be must “We onoffi Based from toareport according is That deliver modern energy for energy modern deliver to (SDG7) goal development sustainability seventh the notmeet will he world ndings show that 87% of 87% that show ndings cit. cial cial national-level SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT GOALS wind to compete with conventional conventional with tocompete wind and solar allowed have costs falling countries. pioneering adozen around in concentrated mini-grids, although this remains to connected orare home systems, solar through toelectricity access country. other any than –more time that during year each people million to30 power provided has India while 2016, and 2010 between annually or more 3% by rate access electricity their and Tanzania. Kenya Ethiopia, Bangladesh, in made increases strongest ofthe some with 2010, since accelerating been has topower access gaining people of number the that SDG7, found it was It was also found that rapidly rapidly that found also It was now have of people Tens of millions increased countries ofthese All off far being still Despite UP delivering delivering at bit.ly/2rAOnU6 Energy Agency.Energy International ofthe director executive Birol, Fatih Dr commented pollution,” air lower and mitigation climate access, onenergy delivering effi energy and onrenewables especially action, target. SDG7 the by demanded increase substantial ofthe short falling 2030, by 21% just toreach expected is share renewable worldwide the than fi –more time that during annually 1% by grew uptake power of green share UK’s the while consumption, energy renewable in growth ofabsolute 30% fornearly accounted in 2015. to22.8% electricity in renewables of share the in growth driving regions, multiple in generation power
Download the full report on SDG7 onSDG7 report full the Download “There is an urgent need for need urgent an is “There policies, oncurrent based However, China 2015, and 2010 Between ve times the global average. global the times ve ciency, which are key for key are which ciency, NEWS ANDVIEWS ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY June 2018 18/05/2018 16:52 5 News
SHORTCUTS RENEWABLE ENERGY
Mandatory solar panels Tidal stream energy could for homes in California boost UK economy by £1.4bn California has become the first US The UK’s nascent tidal stream industry This will also be necessary to enable state to require all new homes built could generate a net benefi t to the UK standardisation and the application of after 1 January 2020 to feature solar economy of £1.4bn and support 4,000 jobs existing innovation, as well as ongoing panels, as part of a series of energy by 2030, new research has found. research and development to further efficiency standards. The California A report from the Off shore Renewable enhance the technology solutions Energy Commission said this would Energy (ORE) Catapult reveals the industry available. It is thought that the sector could cut energy use by more than 50%, applying to both apartments and can also meet the government’s ‘triple provide an economic benefi t of between houses. Other measures include test’ for determining subsidies for new 50% and 60% in coastal areas with a greater lighting and ventilation improvements, technologies. In addition, it predicts that need for economic regeneration, resulting with updated thermal envelope the cost of tidal stream power could fall in considerable exports. standards – cutting emissions from £300/MWh to £90 within 1GW of Dr Stephen Wyatt, ORE Catapult’s equivalent to 115,000 fossil fuel cars. deployment, signifi cantly off setting CO research and innovation director, said: bit.ly/2KipBjq 2 emissions from natural gas generation. “We will now continue our work with Because of the technology’s early the relevant government departments London to be carbon-free maturity levels, the report argues that to establish the best way to capture such by 2050 tidal stream requires an immediate route advantage, in terms of growing our to market via revenue support to enable economy, creating jobs and exporting London mayor Sadiq volume deployment. goods and services all over the world.” Khan has outlined ambitious proposals to make the capital a zero-carbon city by 2050 through energy efficient buildings, clean transport and AIR POLLUTION increased recycling. His Environment Strategy also sets the target of ensuring at least half of the city is Tourism responsible for 8% of green by mid-century, and includes new measures to tackle air pollution global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change: “By continuing to invest in our environment... we can The trillion-dollar global tourism industry international trade, and is responsible for improve the health and wellbeing of is responsible for almost one-tenth of 8% of total emissions. This is expected everyone living in London,” Khan said. greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, to get worse as growing affl uence and bit.ly/2KkeuGt according to an Australian study, which technological developments make luxury urges travellers to “fl y less and pay more”. travel more aff ordable, with top holiday Quarter of The world-fi rst study led by researchers destinations like the Maldives particularly EU budget for climate action at the University of Sydney found that vulnerable to the resulting climate risks. the US is responsible for the majority of The researchers recommend fi nancial The European tourism-generated emissions overall. and technical assistance to help share Commission plans to increase its climate Air travel was the key contributor to the burdens of global warming on winter change spend by 5% to €320bn the industry’s carbon footprint, which sports, sea-level rise on low-lying islands, between 2021-2027, with a quarter of is four times greater than previous and pollution impacts on exotic and the EU’s budget dedicated to climate estimates, growing faster than that of vulnerable destinations. action. It said funding levels need to be increased to support the proposals, but savings could be made from the Common Agricultural Policy following the UK’s departure from the bloc. Jean-Claude Junker said: “The new budget is an opportunity to shape our future as a new, ambitious union of 27.”
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EMERGING ECONOMIES
Carbon-intensive industries of which rely heavily on New phase of globalisation moving from China to high-carbon inputs like coal less-developed regions like for production. undermining emission Vietnam and Bangladesh The study authors warn reductions in industry could be undermining global that this could seriously CO2 emission reduction undermine international eff orts. eff orts to limit global Regions such as Bangladesh and Vietnam That is according to a new warming, which increasingly have heavy reliance on coal study by the University of rely on smaller nations East Anglia, which reveals cutting their emissions. that ‘South-South’ trade “The success of between developing nations international climate more than doubled between mitigation eff orts may 2004-2011. depend on curtailing
CO2 emissions from growth of coal-based Chinese exports have energy and emissions in slowed or even reversed now-industrialising and during that time, while urbanising countries,” those from other developing said the study’s co-author, countries have surged, many professor Dabo Guan.
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06-07_News__Transform 7 18/05/2018 15:24 IEMA news
PLASTIC POLLUTION Join the move to #PledgeLessPlastic for World Environment Day
World Environment Day takes place and share the resource kit on, before In further support of the day, a number on Tuesday 5 June, with the topical and after World Environment Day. of the Regional Networks are holding theme of ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’. IEMA Members are especially urged to make World Environment Day events on 5 June. is supporting the day – organised and their own pledges on social media with Members can book onto a free webinar – promoted by the United Nations – and the easy-to use pledge cards and the ‘Beat Plastic Pollution, If You Can’t members can get involved in a number of #PledgeLessPlastic hashtag. Re-use It, Refuse It’ – on Tuesday 5 June ways, thanks to a range of resources and 2018, 12:30-13:30 GMT. the opportunity to #PledgeLessPlastic. IEMA will make pledges on Twitter The range of resources, over the next month, including welcome from inspiring case news on the oxo-degradable plastic studies to toolkits, event used to deliver your monthly copy inspiration and pledge of TRANSFORM. cards, was launched in The #PledgeLessPlastic May to support members, campaign and range of their family, friends resources has been created in and organisations to partnership with corporate tackle the scourge of members and partners. single-use plastics. Go to iema.net/wed18 IEMA is encouraging to find out more and download all members to use the #PledgeLessPlastic kit
ALL JOBS GREENER Refreshed workplace upskilling courses launched
Transforming the world to new knowledge, understanding and sustainability means everyone in every motivation to make a positive diff erence job needs the right knowledge, skills within their organisation. and opportunity to make a diff erence. The two courses – Environmental To support this, IEMA has off ered Sustainability Skills for the Workforce targeted workforce development and Environmental Sustainability Skills training for several years – the All Jobs for Managers – have already been run Greener suite, which was launched by several approved training providers in 2011. The world has changed since the launch, with many more signifi cantly since then, so the group of dates scheduled. A third accompanying courses has been reviewed, refreshed course – Leading with Environmental and most recently, relaunched. Sustainability – is a powerful half-day The Environmental Sustainability session that will change the way senior Skills for the Workplace suite went leaders do business. live on 14 May. It has been specifi cally Go to iema.net/training to find out designed for non-specialists, providing more, and look out for the the July issue them with a practical introduction of TRANSFORM, which will feature further to environmental sustainability and insight on the courses’ learning outcomes
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08-09_News__Transform 8 18/05/2018 15:25 QUOTE UNQUOTE
IEMA VOTE
The votes are in!!! 699 members (votes in the room and proxy votes) have VOTED Members vote to go FOR CHARTERSHIP! That far exceeds the 75% of votes needed #BecomingCIEMA for Chartership @IEMANET
On 15 May, over 150 members gathered in London Woke up feeling #inspired this morning for the most historic moment in IEMA’s history by all the passionate members of @iemanet and fantastic talks by so far – the vote to secure members’ approval to @planamikebarry Jane Davidson from petition for a Royal Charter. @universitywales and Paul Leinster from Members voted overwhelmingly in favour @Cranfi eldUni The event was part of of the special resolution to offi cially apply for #BecomingCIEMA fi ngers crossed a Royal Charter – a move to boost member #QueenElizabeth gives permission! @ABIBRADY value, recognition for the profession and global profi le for the institute. 99.29% of all 704 votes received from proxy votes and those cast in the room at the extraordinary general meeting voted in favour of the resolution – far exceeding the 75% required for IEMA to proceed. Beautiful day for a train ride to London for my fi rst two events as an @iemanet IEMA CEO Tim Balcon said immediately after the vote: “This is a real Fellow, and they couldn’t be more milestone for IEMA. It is a recognition and validation of everything our important! First we’re talking about worldwide alliance has achieved, and everything we’ll go on to accomplish Brexit and then the EGM and the vote together in the future. I’d like to thank all members for their support, on our chartership. Historic day for us, debrief at the Sussex and Surrey enthusiasm and contribution for making such a pivotal and defi nite decision. Social tomorrow I’m enormously excited about what happens next – this year and beyond.” @CATALICITY Chair of the IEMA board Diana Montgomery said: “This is a huge step towards the recognition of our profession.” As this issue of TRANSFORM went to press, IEMA was executing the offi cial IEMA Landmark moment in the Charter documents required by the Privy Council and preparing to post history of @iemanet Proud to have notice of our Charter application in the London Gazette – an obligatory public been in the room and voting #BecomingCIEMA step in the process. @BLUEDOTAUG Members will be updated regularly on our progress as we reach further milestones in this exciting, once-in-a-generation move.
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The new General Data Protection It is vitally important you check Regulations came into force on and confi rm the choices we have 25 May, placing new requirements recorded or makes changes where on organisations to change the way necessary to ensure we can keep you they obtain, record, use and destroy informed and connected. To check personal data. In response, IEMA your choices, log in to MyIEMA, has been contacting all members to select Manage Your Membership and Excellent news – very exciting times give everyone the fresh opportunity then select the green Preferences for such an important integrity strong professional institute – very proud to to review and confi rm subscription button. It’s quick, easy and essential be a member and NE Chair. Thank you preferences for all marketing and to do. Head to iema.net now to @iemanet #BecomingCIEMA communication purposes. ensure we stay in touch. @SHARONENV1
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08-09_News__Transform 9 18/05/2018 15:25 This legislative update has been provided by Cedrec Legal Information Systems, available at cedrec.com NEWREGULATIONS THE LATEST GUIDANCE CONSULTATIONS LEGISLATION
7 MAY 2018 2 MAY 2018 Waste 15 APRIL 2018 Environmental management 9 MAY 2018 permitting The Waste (Fees and Renewable The Environmental Charges) (Amendment) REACH fuel Permitting (England and Regulations (Northern Various EU legislation The Renewable Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Ireland) 2018 increase the has been published Transport Fuels and Regulations 2018 amend the fees and charges for waste relating to Registration, Greenhouse Gas Environmental Permitting management licences and Evaluation, Authorisation Emissions Regulations Regulations 2016, in order to registering as a carrier of and Restriction of 2018 aim to reduce implement EU requirements controlled waste. Chemicals (REACH). greenhouse gas on basic safety standards for cedr.ec/55t This sees methanol and emissions from fuels protection against exposure 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone supplied in transport, to ionising radiation. added to Annex 17 and will require fuel cedr.ec/55y restricted substances, companies to more and dicyclohexyl than double the phthalate (DCHP) amount of renewable identifi ed as a substance fuel they supply of very high concern. by 2020. cedr.ec/560 cedr.ec/567 cedr.ec/561 cedr.ec/55z
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1 APRIL 2018 Environmental assessment Water 11 APRIL 2018 18 APRIL 2018 The European management Commission is The Scottish Environment Environmental Marine consulting the public Protection Agency has permitting management on the evaluation of developed a guide to help The Department for The Department of Agriculture, Directive 2001/42/ support the reservoir Environment, Food and Environment and Rural Aff airs EC. This assesses the industry under the Rural Aff airs has launched seeks views on the Draft Marine eff ects of certain public Reservoirs (Scotland) a consultation on proposals Plan for Northern Ireland. The plans and programmes Act 2011. It is part of a to make changes to some plan has the vision to develop on the environment series of documents of the fl ood risk exemptions a “healthy marine area, which (the so-called Strategic that off er advice and and exclusions in the is managed sustainably for the Environmental good practice on how to Environmental Permitting economic, environmental and Assessment or fulfi l the requirements (England and Wales) social prosperity of present and SEA Directive). of legislation. Regulations 2016. future generations”. cedr.ec/566 cedr.ec/565 cedr.ec/55s cedr.ec/563
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The Church of Scientology Religious Education College was INCOURT fined £14,000
POLLUTION be considered fully recovered until at least the summer of 2018. During sentencing, it was also stated that Severn Trent Severn Trent had “no policy whatsoever” with regard to potential incidents occurring from fi ned £350,000 the dosing chamber that was the source of the leak, or from that type of chamber in any other for chemical leak treatment centre in the UK. OTHER NEWS In a statement from the sentencing judge, tilities giant Severn Trent has been it was made clear that “to have no policy Sewage leak fi ned £350,000 for a pollution incident whatsoever when dangerous chemicals could in the River Amber, Derbyshire. have leaked out in any number of ways is highly lands church U The fi ne is in addition to a £68,003 negligent. The size and success of Severn Trent with penalty payment to the Environment Agency and a £120 makes it even more astonishing.” victim surcharge. In addition to the fi ne, costs and surcharge, A branch of the Church of Scientology has been fined The Environment Agency received reports Severn Trent made a donation of £228,000 to £14,000 for leaking raw sewage of “several hundred dead fi sh” along the River Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to fund sustainable into the River Medway in Amber, back in November 2015. After an improvements to the River Amber. West Sussex. investigation, which saw an estimated 30,000 The leak saw damage to the dead fi sh and 5km of damaged ecology river’s natural ecology, with along the river, the source of the pollution fungus and dead wildlife found was deemed to be sodium hydroxide from more than 350 metres from the the Ogston water treatment works. source of the leak. Severn Trent Water identifi ed that a leak within a chamber at the works had led to “Volumes of the contents becoming contaminated with sewage were sodium hydroxide, which was then released 10 times over the into the River Amber from its discharge pipes. permitted level.” The Environment Agency has been monitoring the recovery of the ecology for Residents complained about
two years. It estimates that the river will not Some 30,000 fish died leakage only a few weeks as a result of the leak after the branch replaced the sewage treatment plant in CASE LAW August 2015. Inspectors found the new Waste disposal fi rm’s appealld dismissedi i d as judge j d decides d id plant was pumping out waste lining material is liable to landfi ll tax water containing volumes of sewage 10 times over the The case of Biffa Waste Services from damage by the general body operated by the appellant, called permitted limit. Samples Ltd v The Commissioners for Her of waste deposited in the cell, and EVP or ‘engineered into the void were taken on 19 occasions, Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, a was therefore not waste, excluding permanently’, similar to the ‘fluff’ and 10 failed to meet tribunal appeal, has been dismissed. it from landfill tax. referred to in the earlier appeals. environmental standards. The appeal followed an earlier The appealsals were dismissed JudJudgege Kevin PPoole considered The court heard that appeal by the appellant and three on the basis tthathat in spite ooff the the inteintent of the person the Church of Scientology other waste disposal companies, submitted ‘use’se’ ofof ththee materialsmaterials mamakingking the disposal to be Religious Education College which dealt with the liability for in question, thethe appellantsappellants ttoo discadiscard the material. had been aware of the landfill tax on ‘fluff’ – mainly intended to discadiscardrd them.them. HHee aalsolso statedst that “all the longstanding problem and domestic black bag waste that had The currentnt aappealppeal mmaterialaterial wwas destined for was therefore negligent, but been deposited at the base, sides concerned a claimclaim landlandfillfill in any event, in the has since spent a lot of money and top of landfill cells. relating to a main bbody of landfilled to get the treatment plant The argument was that this different materialterial wwasteaste if not as EVP”. This operating properly. fluff was being used to protect the deposited at the consiconsidered, the appeal In addition to the fine, the engineered parts of the landfill cells top of landfilll cells wwasas ddismissed. defendant was also ordered to pay £2,566 in costs.
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10-11_Legal•CT__Transform 11 18/05/2018 16:05 In focus
NATURAL WORLD A legion of... Happy Feet
Satellite imagery has uncovered a ‘supercolony’ of more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins nesting among a chain of remote Antartic islands, raising hope for a species that was thought to have been in decline for decades. The birds had previously gone undetected due to the remoteness of the Danger Islands, which are surrounded by treacherous waters and thick sea ice, making it diffi cult to access. However, after being tipped off by NASA, researchers at Stony Brook University used a modifi ed drone to take images of the entire area before tallying up the penguins one by one. The discovery increases the region’s known Adélie penguin population by 70%, and will allow conservations to better design marine protected areas for the animals. It remains unclear, however, why the penguins have been able to thrive in the region, with climate change causing their population to decline steadily over the past 40 years. “Is it linked to the extended sea ice condition over there? Food availability? That’s something we don’t know,” commented Stephanie
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12-13_Big Pictur__Transform 12 18/05/2018 16:06 In focus
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12-13_Big Pictur__Transform 13 18/05/2018 16:06 Interview
hink of New Orleans and three things spring to mind: jazz, food and Hurricane Katrina. On the latter two, Jeanne Frith talks with considerable authority. Reap T A founding member of Grow Dat Youth Farm, a sustainable food project in the heart of New Orleans that employs around 60 teenagers each year, she has lost count what you of the young people who have transformed their lives simply through growing food. But a couple of names crop up. Yasmin Davis is a Grow Dat graduate, who went on to study political science and Latin American studies and won a scholarship with the Posse Foundation – a sow programme that trains public high school students with outstanding academic and leadership potential. She held almost every A sustainable food project’s mission to nourish position possible at Grow Dat – from crew a diverse group of young leaders is harvesting it member, assistance area leader and intern – before joining the staff as a crew leader. a wide-reaching reputation. Huw Morris speaks Another is Tim Dubuclet, who was to project founding member Jeanne Frith living on fast food and sugary drinks
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and weighed more than 21 stone when he joined the project. He worked the “Farming is challenging, and serves as soil, learnt about vegetables and how to a conduit to stimulate the development cook them, lost more than 5 stone and gained a lifelong habit of gardening and of youth leadership skills” preparing food. Founded in 2011, Grow Dat is based on and community organisations who need The young people work as interns, a seven-acre site of a former golf course it most. assistant crew leaders and crew leaders, in the city’s park, which in 2005 was Need is great, says Frith. Louisiana has who help select and train the next group destroyed by Hurricane Katrina – one of the third highest rate of food insecurity while running the farm. The project’s the most cataclysmic storms in US history. in the US. In New Orleans, the racial graduates are now hired by a network That catastrophe still reverberates. disparities in access to food that existed of partners, comprising sustainable “When I first moved to New Orleans, before Hurricane Katrina considerably food co-operatives, retailers and I noticed people spoke in the shorthand worsened and became more deeply urban landscapers. of ‘before’ or ‘after’ to signify before or entrenched after the storm and levee Much of the work at Grow Dat is carried after Katrina,” says Frith. “The hurricane failure. African American residents are out by hand. Students spend half their time and levee [dyke] failure had so radically not only more likely to be food insecure learning about sustainable agriculture affected people’s lives. It’s a huge context.” but are also 33% more likely to die of heart and getting their hands dirty planting, The concept for the farm grew out of disease and three times as likely to die of weeding, cultivating, compost building a partnership between the Tulane City diabetes than white residents. and harvesting. Center, the New Orleans Food and Farm Overall, life expectancy can vary as “We use cover cropping, composting, Network (NOFFN) and New Orleans City much as 25 years by postcode in this companion planting, farmscaping and Park. A big challenge was immediately segregated city. “That’s 25 years’ difference crop rotation to stimulate microbiological apparent. Most of Grow Dat’s students just neighbourhood by neighbourhood,” activity and soil health,” says Frith. “It’s all lived unhealthy lifestyles – a snap survey she says. about chemical-free farming methods to showed that just 12% had eaten vegetables One of Grow Dat’s founding principles is build a resilient, sustainable agricultural in the previous 24 hours. Many lived more that the toughest social problems will not system. We do not use chemical-based than three miles from a supermarket. be solved by individuals or by one group pesticides or fertilisers. We produce food The long-term problem of poor access of people alone. “This is one of the lasting by supporting natural ecological systems.” to fresh food was exacerbated by Katrina. lessons of Hurricane Katrina, a dozen This approach has implications for Three years after the hurricane, there were years later,” she says. The project hires human growth as well as crop growth. almost 18,000 residents per supermarket – young people from partner schools across “That means stewarding natural and well above the national average of 8,000. New Orleans for its five-month leadership human resources for the future. Farming Since then, the Grow Dat farm has programme. Starting at age 15, they come is challenging, and serves as a conduit gained momentum and a reputation. from across the spectrum – elite private to stimulate the development of youth Each year, the farm provides more Catholic schools, alternative leadership skills,” she says. than 20,000lb – overover 9,000kg9,000kg – of scschoolshools andand Louisiana’sLouisiana’s CenterCen The farm features an Eco Campus, sustainably grownwn foodfood forfor New fforor JuJuvenilevenile OOffenders.ffenders. “We“W comprising seven retrofitted shipping Orleans. Aroundd 70% of its produceproduce iintentionallyntentionally hirehire youngyoung containers that house the project’s is sold through farmers’armers’ markets ppeopleeople fromfrom a dozen offices, a teaching kitchen, youth locker run by its students,nts, throughthrough a different hihighgh schoolsschools rooms, composting toilets, cold storage, community-supportedported agricultureagriculture across the citcity,”y,” she says.says. a post-harvest handling area and a tool box scheme, or wholesalewholesale to ““TheyThey are yyoungoung people wwho storage area. The campus was built and restaurants acrossss thethe city.city. TheThe otherother wworkork togettogetherher bbutut mightmigh donated by students and staff at the Tulane 30%, called Shareded Harvest,Harvest, never normanormallylly City Center, part of Tulane University’s is donated to the peoplepeople mmeet.”eet.” School of Architecture, and has won
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several regional awards for its design and One attraction for visitors is the farm’s sustainability. This is where students location next to a birding corridor. spend the other half of their time: in Hundreds of species of birds perch in the workshops complemented by skill-building bald cypress trees near its Eco Campus. activities on site, at the project’s partner Visitors can also see an alligator or two organisations, or on field trips. gliding along the bayou that flanks the “They learn why we do what we are doing farm’s rows of vegetables. – why we are growing food sustainably, “Coastal Louisiana is at the frontline of why we are weeding instead of spraying climate instability, and many think we are herbicide, why we plant red clover near experiencing the fastest land loss on the beds of vegetables to attract bees and wasps planet – at the rate of an American football for pollination,” says Frith. field every hour,” says Frith. Indeed, the “If you have grown something, there is farm’s bayou links to Lake Pontchartrain, Food equality focus more personal investment and care,” she which intersects with the Mississippi Jeanne Frith is researching a PhD at adds. “It’s an honour to see something grow River, which in turn flows into the Gulf of the London School of Economics and take on a life.” Grow Dat, she says, is Mexico. This is another reason for not using on food security and equality, and “meaningful, important work of growing “synthetic chemical fertilisers that will drain works as a consultant for Grow Dat. food for our city with one another”. and circulate in these vital water systems”. Previously, she served as co-chair of Frith is of Swedish ancestry, with many Besides funding from grants, donors the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory of her close relatives having farmed the and market sales, the project raises money Committee, and lectured as an adjunct Kansas prairies for generations. “When through holding seasonal farm dinners, professor with the Payson Center for my grandfather visited Grow Dat, he at which it invites local celebrity chefs International Development at Tulane said it seems like an old-fashioned, more to cook up locally focused, family-style University. Before Grow Dat, she traditional farm.” She likes to quote the meals. Tickets sell out fast. The events also worked on food and social justice farmer poet Wendell Berry: “When going reinforce the farm’s reputation across New projects in San Francisco. back makes sense, you are going ahead.” Orleans and beyond.
Frith, who is researching a doctorate at “In New Orleans, the racial disparities the London School of Economics, works in access to food that existed before as a consultant for Grow Dat, spreading its message. She admits that when she Hurricane Katrina considerably is giving presentations or speaking at conferences, there is “a tension of me being worsened… life expectancy can vary as an adult but knowing that the true voice of much as 25 years by postcode” our work comes from young people”. The project’s message is much in demand, she says. “There is no way we can Hurricane havoc: meet the demand for our produce or for the city’s existing problem of residents information from organisations about what having poor access we do. There are limitless possibilities and to fresh food was exacerbated by Katrina support for the work.” However, her enthusiasm does not extend to the Trump administration. “I have no confidence that sustainability is being emphasised,” she says. “The executive leadership of the US seeks to further divide people. But we believe that coming together – across race, class, gender, sexuality, young people who are great at school, young people who are struggling in school – is essential to creating lasting social change.”
HUW MORRIS is a freelance journalist
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rom flying taxis to parcel would have previously been impossible. ENVIRONMENTAL delivery services, there “Drones can be designed to be incredibly appears no limit to the quiet and flown at hundreds of feet USES FOR DRONES potential applications of above the ground so they are almost Some of the applications for remotely drone technology as we undetectable,” Dr Owen McAree, LJMU piloted vehicles in the scientific community stand on the brink of a senior research officer, tells me. Fdigital revolution. “A manned aircraft would give the game But you don’t have to look far into the away, but these drones can monitor vast future to witness the transformational areas of land in relative silence, and send impact of drones, which have evolved a text message to a game warden alerting rapidly since being considered little more them to poachers in a particular area.” than a novelty just a decade ago. The technology is also being used as a Increasingly able to think for new way of monitoring the activities of themselves through the use of sensors, animals, with LJMU researchers recently WIND TURBINE MONITORING INSPECTION OCEAN POLLUTION drones can now enter environments flying over large nature reserves in beyond the reach of humans, whether Malaysia to observe the nesting behaviour on land, underwater, in the air or in of orangutans. McAree explains how this space. This has had dramatic knock-on would have previously been done from effects for scientific research around the ground, providing an incomplete the world, with sustainability experts picture of their behavioural patterns, taking advantage of the technology for owing to the height of the nests in the environmental protection use. trees. A manned aircraft would have Robert Garbett, chief executive of been “prohibitively expensive” to use CROP PROTECTION REFORESTATION Drone Major Group, explains how and ineffective as they would have had this technology covers a vast array of to be flown so high as to not disturb areas, from monitoring wildlife and the orangutans. pollution levels, to replanting trees and mitigating wildfires. “That is just the tip of the iceberg,” he “The technology says. “The applications for drones around environmental protection and monitoring is also being used are huge, it just goes on and on.” as a new way CLIMATE CHANGE COMBATING Indeed, after just a little digging, MONITORING DISEASE AND I unearth thousands of environmental of monitoring ILLNESS uses that the scientific community is just beginning to develop (see right). the activities of “Whatever the environmental issue that you can think of, a drone can probably animals” be used to help solve it,” Garbett adds. “The evolution of unmanned vehicle “With drones, you can fly them a few technology (UVT) is moving very quickly.” hundred feet above the trees and the animals don’t seem to mind,” McAree Wildlife defenders continues. “We can now get a lot of really SPECIES WATER SAMPLING PROTECTION AND TESTING One of the most cutting-edge applications great data on how their nesting behaviour of drone technology is the ability to changes over time that we wouldn’t have identify different species on the ground been able to before.” by using infrared cameras to generate unique thermal profiles based on the Into the deep different ways animals radiate heat from Another application involves using their bodies. This has allowed researchers marine drones to monitor the state of at Liverpool John Moores University the ocean by sampling its chemical (LJMU) to keep tabs on different species composition and keeping track of fish NUCLEAR DISASTER PLASTIC across large game reserves, and, crucially, stocks. However, there has been an CLEANUP POLLUTION detect and reveal poachers in a way that explosion in the number tackling REMOVAL
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plastic pollution in recent years. This providing a Big brother coincides with a mass public awakening game-changing The environmental around the impact of plastic entering the solution for applications for marine system, with litter recently found scientists looking drones appear endless, to have settled an astonishing 36,000ft to carry out with their low-carbon below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. research in harsh emissions also enabling Designer Elie Ahovi’s answer to this environments. them to monitor pollution is his ‘Marine Drone’, which travels “During an emergency levels in a way that other devices underwater and sucks up plastic bags, scenario such as a major oil can’t. Meanwhile, the relatively cheap bottles and other debris into a net-like leak, an AquaMav could fly and dive price tag justifies the risk of them trap at the back end of the device. It is into isolated patch of water, where becoming damaged or destroyed in equipped with an infrasound system it could collect samples and record dangerous scenarios. and a special sensor that keeps fish and environmental data,” says ICL’s Aerial McAree points out that we are very other aquatic animals away, while high- Robotics Lab director, Dr Mirko Kovac. likely to see drones operating across a powered batteries allow it to stay in the “The vehicle could then perform a vast spectrum of services, including water for more than two weeks at a time. short take-off and return to its launch delivering life-saving medicine to The RanMarine project in the site to submit samples for analysis. remote areas, or even defibrillators for Netherlands is another initiative that This would enable a fast, targeted when emergency services are stretched. aims to cut down on ocean plastic waste. response that could not be matched The technology is expected to Inspired by the natural way that whale by current methods.” transform our society in many ways, sharks catch prey, the company has This is one of the most exciting areas from disrupting the job market to developed a drone that can filter up to for the future of drone technology, ensuring all travel is autonomous and 500kg of plastic waste at any given time. with Garbett suggesting that the smooth, with traffic jams potentially a The idea came after the project’s chief barriers limiting the reach of UVT are thing of the past. executive officer, Richard Hardiman, increasingly falling away. He describes But at what price? “We may witness grew frustrated at the ineffective how there are now 56ft drone catamarans thousands of Amazon drones or methods available for removing plastic that can travel across the world’s roughest advertising devices flying around in the from ports and harbours. seas for 100 miles carrying air drones, sky, and that could seriously infringe on He hopes his company’s solar-powered providing an integrated system to cope people’s quality of life,” McAfee says. ‘Waste Shark’ drone will eventually with various environments. He believes that an unmanned traffic help “clean up the mass of ‘plastic soup’ “That blurring of the lines between management system – a type of air suspended in the world’s oceans”. environments is the most exciting thing,” traffic control – could be needed to deal “It may sound strange to say for an Garbett says. “These are not underwater with the increased traffic of drones, with entrepreneur, but my mission will only drones, land drones or air drones – they trials already taking place in the US and truly be accomplished when I am out of are hybrids, and that is what we are going the United Arab Emirates. business,” he adds. to see more and more of in the future.” There is also the possibility of CCTV “You have to remember that a drone is drones entering the skies, further Blurred lines any vehicle or aircraft that is autonomous encroaching on people’s privacy, with The most striking way drones have or remote controlled, so that goes across the population increasingly unable to evolved in recent years concerns the entire environment – the things that evade the watchful eye of the state. their ability to operate in multiple are possible are astonishing.” “From a technological point of view, environments. Engineers at Imperial these are all possible, but do we want College London (ICL) have developed a all this stuff? I am happy to see drones drone that can dive from the air into the used for scientific study, conservation, ocean like a gannet bird, before using and emergency services, among compressed gas to propel itself back others, but I would never endorse the out of the water, where it can then principle of anyone being able to put fly away using retractable wings. a camera in the sky. AquaMAV is designed to “Drones have opened up a monitor water quality in whole area of discovery, but, on reservoirs and changes in the flip side, there are ethical ocean salinity to gauge the questions that society will effects of climate change, ultimately have to answer.”
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ecent advances in the deployment of earth- observing satellite (EO) systems by space agencies and commercial players have massively increased Rthe available data on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Governments and businesses have invested billions of dollars constructing, launching and operating constellations on the premise that society or paying customers will obtain sufficient benefit to justify the continued operation and development of these technologies. As a result, the frequency, quality, resolution Agricultural and diversity of free or affordable data now available is unprecedented. The potential applications of EO technologies are broad – from monitoring environmental change at various scales, response to natural disasters and awakening measurement of economic and social change; to improved management of Richard Tipper examines how earth-observing forests, water resources, coasts and technologies could rewrite the future of farming fisheries. One major sector set to benefit from the adoption of EO is agriculture. Including pasture, agriculture is the (ii) Information about the interface agrochemical requirements, and the main human land use, comprising almost between agriculture and natural optimal timing of operations, for example. 40% of the global land surface. The base ecosystems, which can be used to Each of these will require a careful for a large part of the global economy, monitor natural capital. More specific combination of contextual information, it is, of course, vital for food security. data can check compliance of farms with subject matter expertise and end-user Global demand for calories is expected to environmental regulations, or inform on requirements to generate valuable double by 2050 before stabilising, while payment for services such as maintenance information from EO-derived data. large areas of prime agricultural land are of landscape features, erosion prevention Ecometrica’s strategy is to unlock expected to decline in productivity as a and carbon sequestration. the value in EO data by combining it result of climate change, soil degradation (iii) Commercial data about crops with contextual information held by and water resource depletion. and varieties, leading to production businesses, governments and researchers. Within the agricultural sector as a estimations useful to aggregators, The potential value of EO applications whole, there are a number of potential suppliers, traders and insurers. to agriculture is immense. A 5% segments for EO applications, including: (iv) Risk, suitability and change improvement in global agricultural (i) Broad-scale monitoring of changes information. This will be particularly productivity from the application of EO to agricultural production and land use. valuable for investors in agricultural technologies would deliver a return of This is mainly of interest to government holdings and could help stabilise markets. approximately $250bn per year. departments concerned with food (v) Precise information for farmers. But considerable effort will be needed to security and the rural economy. EO data can inform on water and finesse solutions before the wide range of stakeholders in this diverse and complex sector – from governments, civil society “A 5% improvement in global agricultural and farmers to financiers and suppliers – productivity from the application of EO start reaping the benefits. technologies would deliver a return of DR RICHARD TIPPER is executive chairman of downstream space and approximately $250bn per year” satellite data mapping group Ecometrica
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Route map for
f we’re serious about climate change, it’s a Marshall-style transition we’re talking about.” Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate MANCH “IChange, does not hold back from the scale of the changes needed to enable A science-based tool being used by the decarbonisation of the economy, comparing them to the US plan for Europe Manchester city region to assess its options after the Second World War. in pursuing a zero-carbon goal could prove Speaking at Manchester’s inaugural Green Summit in March, Anderson eff ective not only for other cities but also big outlined analysis undertaken by the companies, reports Catherine Early centre, which is based in the University of Manchester, to identify the city region’s carbon budget. This concluded that it (GHG) reporting by aligning it with SCATTER allowed the team to take the should emit no more than 71m tonnes of internationally accepted standards Tyndall Centre’s recommended target carbon dioxide from 2018 onwards – the and ensuring consistency with the date for carbon neutrality and identify equivalent of just five to six years’ worth of requirements of the Compact of Mayors – various options to achieve it. The tool the area’s current emissions, he said. an international alliance of cities and local generates carbon mitigation options “Full decarbonisation of the Greater governments that are voluntarily acting according to four levels of ambition, with Manchester city region is needed by 2035 on climate change. the lowest based on the results of action to 2040. That’s a 10-15% reduction in It also allows the city to produce being taken only at national level. emissions every single year, starting now. emissions reports that meet the mitigation The tool enables local authorities and If we fail this year, it’s more next year,” he goal standard, an accounting and reporting city regions to understand, for the first told delegates. standard for national and subnational GHG time, the implications of their long-term The Tyndall Centre has been working reduction goals developed by the World climate change commitments, says Mark with consultancy Anthesis Group and Resources Institute (WRI). Atherton, director of environment at the the Greater Manchester Combined The idea for the SCATTER tool came GMCA. “SCATTER provides the user with Authority (GMCA) – which represents the out of a desire to support cities to align options for taking action which can be 10 councils in the city region – to develop their climate mitigation plans with the honed to suit their circumstances – it and trial a city-focused low-carbon model. WRI’s standards, says Matt Rooney, gives clarity on the ‘what’ but leaves the Called SCATTER (Setting City Area principal consultant at Anthesis. Analysis ‘how’ for the user to decide,” he says. Targets and Trajectories for Emissions of the many climate-change-related tools The team based the options for Reduction), the tool can support cities on the market revealed a gap. “We didn’t Manchester only on existing, proven across the UK to set emission reduction see anything that joined up the WRI- technology. SCATTER allowed them to targets in line with the Paris Agreement’s compliant inventory with modelling, or distinguish between technical solutions aims to limit temperature rise to a with the WRI’s goal standard reporting. that can be applied locally and those that maximum of 2°C. We felt there was an opportunity to rely on national government action. SCATTER allows city authorities consolidate and simplify some of the tools Speaking to delegates at the summit, to standardise their greenhouse gas already out there,” he says. Alex Ganotis, green city region portfolio
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Going beyond carbon: plans into action ● Improved environments for walking and cycling: Greater Manchester appointed former champion cyclist Chris Boardman as walking and cycling commissioner last summer. Up to £50m a year is being provided for three years from 2019/20 to implement Boardman’s recommendations
● All new homes to be zero-carbon: the date will be decided through consultation
● Invest in energy generation and storage: a company has been created to do this and generate revenue to invest in other ESTERenvironmental improvements ● More green infrastructure, including parks, lead and Stockport council leader, said the arrays and floating arrays on reservoirs, green roofs and sustainable urban drainage: tool had shown it was possible for the city that could account for 12% of the city Manchester is one of four areas piloting ideas to achieve carbon neutrality ahead of the region’s energy demand of six terawatt- to boost natural capital for the Department for UK-wide goal of 2050. hours a year, he says. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs However, this would be demanding, At the lowest level of ambition, the he warned, needing “ambitious national same strategy could be followed, but on city region, published for consultation assumptions in relation to surplus only 25% of households, with 0.6km2 this summer. As well as climate change renewables capacity within the grid, on commercial roofs. This level would mitigation, the wide-ranging strategy will bioenergy availability and displacement generate 2% of the energy demand. aim to improve all aspects of the built and of fossil fuels. This is on the boundaries of An obvious way of reducing energy natural environment. the application of current technologies, demand identified by the team is Now that Manchester has piloted and would require unprecedented decarbonising transport. Transforming the tool, its developers are working on transformational change and extraordinary 100% of cars and buses to be zero-carbon expanding its use. Anthesis is engaging a national financial investment.” by 2035, and transforming trains by 2025, further four UK cities but sees it applying Rooney agrees with this assessment were together identified as the most to other countries as well. It could also be of the level of ambition needed. “The ambitious trajectory for transport. At the used by companies, the firm believes. “It consistent theme was that, whatever lever lowest ambition level, the same target would need adaptation, but corporates are you pull, you have to pull it pretty hard to would be met by 2050. looking at the same way of evaluating how get where you need to be.” Ultimately, the tool merely identifies they can deliver a science-based target in He gives an example of the most options for the user – be it a city authority practical terms,” says Rooney. ambitious level of action for generating or a large business. The user would then For example, businesses could energy. If 50% of domestic properties have to analyse the costs and other social use SCATTER to implement the in the region were fitted with 16m2 of and environmental impacts. “SCATTER recommendations of the Task Force on solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, and a means the user can get a more tangible Climate-related Financial Disclosures further 16.8km2 of solar PV was located feel for what technology and interventions (TCFD), which says they should test their on commercial roofs, ground-mounted could be used, which helps with practical exposure to climate risk to give investors application,” says Rooney. better information. In Manchester’s case, the GMCA is All in all, SCATTER looks likely to putting together a Green Charter for the have a promising future in supporting environmental transition. “We’re very The date by which 100% of cars and excited about what this can enable, buses would be zero-carbon on the and what kind of change it can drive,” most ambitious transport trajectory. Rooney says. The lowest ambition level would set a 2035 later deadline of 2050. CATHERINE EARLY is a freelance journalist
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THIS MONTH WE ASK... Would a universal basic income bring an end to poverty and inequality?
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DR SIMON DUFFY PROFESSOR HENRIETTA MOORE ANNA COOTE Director of the Centre for Director, University College London’s Principal fellow, Welfare Reform Institute for Global Prosperity New Economics Foundation “UBI is part of an “Extending the social “It is an ill-conceived, answer to poverty safety net we have is rickety, audacious and inequality, far more effi cient “ little cart put before but only a part” The idea of UBI has been gaining the seriously big Shifting the world onto a more traction, buoyed by a trial in Finland and horse of radical sustainable and just footing is less about support from leading tech billionaires. political change“ policy and more about power. If basic On the face of it, it has obvious income is implemented by elite groups, attractions – but how practical is it in UBI is an alluring idea, but is interpreted who seek only to reduce social resistance, reality? Critics point to several intrinsic in many contradictory ways. It has it will do very little to make things better. problems. Any fi xed payment made to been promoted as a partial income for But if basic income is part of a process of all, unless regularly uprated, would be all that is far from suffi cient to live on; democratic and constitutional reform, vulnerable to erosion by infl ation, as with a cash handout to the poor in some then it could be transformative. existing benefi ts. It might also tempt communities; and a living income Since the development of the welfare neoliberal governments to view this given to a section of the population as state, there has been a tendency to ‘income’ as an replacement for publicly a temporary experiment. None of these think of the problems of social justice funded services. Perhaps most decisively refl ects all the characteristics on which as being the domain of policymakers: from a public policy perspective, it’s an UBI’s popularity seems to depend: a cash civil servants, politicians, academics extremely expensive way of providing a payment that is universal, unconditional and thinktanks. Ordinary people are fi xed benefi t to the entire population. and suffi cient. Trials have consistently seen as recipients of policy, and the By contrast, public services provide failed to test all of these together. good intentions of the political elite have economy of scale and fairness of access. Nevertheless, UBI is presented as a been taken for granted. However, this These principles lie at the heart of an ‘silver bullet’ for shooting at anything paternalistic model is breaking down. alternative model proposed by the from automation and joblessness to The system does not serve the interests Institute for Global Prosperity, which we stigmatisation and gender inequality – of the poorest, the marginal or the call Universal Basic Services (UBS). but with barely a scrap of evidence. Even disenfranchised. Power serves power. Our inspiration comes from the its supporters admit it would be hugely UBI is a helpful and hopeful element publicly funded services provided free expensive and need endless supplements. in the creation of a new movement for at the point of need that we already have There are far more urgent political democratic reform for several reasons. in the UK, most notably the NHS. We’ve causes that could really tackle poverty First, it is a clear and universal approach modelled providing free accommodation and inequality. We need more and to income security – akin to the via a big expansion of public housing, better income support, with simpler, NHS. It abandons the controlling and free public transport, provision of less punitive conditions; more and technocratic obscurity of the old system broadband and smartphones, and free better public services, with resources and it puts everyone on the same footing. food to tackle undernourishment. pooled to meet everyone’s basic needs Second, it redistributes free time needed We believe this could have a for education, health and care, decent for civic and democratic engagement. transformative eff ect on society and housing and aff ordable transport and Power will not shift to the people until the economy, by equipping people with utilities; and more and better workplace the people are enabled to take on a the essential building blocks they need bargaining to drive up wages and shift greater measure of self-rule. as the foundation for a prosperous life. power from capital to labour.
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The angels’ share Big data has received a lot Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. of bad press recently but It’s alleged that the personal data of about its potential for more ethical 50 million Americans was harvested from the social networking site, “improperly applications remains, writes shared” with the political consultancy, and David Burrows then possibly used to influence the 2016 US presidential election. In the UK, Dominic Cummings, the director of Vote Leave, has ack in 2013, in an essay for also been forced to deny allegations of links Foreign Affairs magazine, between his campaign and Cambridge Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Analytica. The news brought to mind a retail Mayer-Schoenberger predicted white paper I wrote in 2015 that began: that big data was poised to “Researchers at the University of 500 MIL reshape the way we live, work, Cambridge have just created an algorithm Band think. “Big data will become integral that uses Facebook ‘likes’ to determine an to addressing many of the world’s pressing individual’s psychological traits. Apparently, problems,” they wrote. But five years on, and the computer can judge personality more the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal accurately than workmates, friends or family has thrown the spotlight on the demons members. In fact, given enough ‘likes’ to that such data can create. “This is the story crunch (300), it could even rival a spouse we have been waiting for, so people will on a range of psychological traits including pay attention not just to Facebook but to conscientiousness and neuroticism. This the entire surveillance economy,” says Siva might take us one step closer to Minority
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Report, but the finding has important social and economic implications – the “The tight correlation between Facebook ability to judge personality is an essential users’ interests and obesity data could component of social living: who to marry, hire or elect as prime minister.” help to launch more effective, targeted Oh. The more brands know about us, the public health campaigns” easier it becomes to persuade us to buy their wares. Facebook has an almost time estimates of obesity levels in an area, people get around, and in turn design hypnotic power to pull in punters – and to launch more effective, targeted more attractive and effective public its adverts increase audience reach, public health campaigns. transport systems, reducing pollution ad memorability, brand linkage and It’s just one of several examples and carbon emissions. Drones are already likeability. Junkfood brands, for instance, where data is being massed, mined and being used to relay information on when have fattened their profits, thanks to a manipulated for a purpose. Telefónica crops will be ready for harvest. But there platform that costs a fraction of traditional Brazil, for instance, is using mobile is potential for this to be married with media such as television. The fact that network data to monitor air pollution in weather forecasts and consumer demand online advertising restrictions are São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Pollution data to balance supplies and cut wastage. voluntary, and full of loopholes, makes the problems can now be predicted up to two Whether it’s climate change or food whole thing even sweeter. days before they occur, so traffic can be scarcity, deforestation, poverty or obesity, The recent scandal leaves a sour taste, diverted via alternative routes and areas of data will help to show us how dire the but I hope it doesn’t persist. Sure, we need high pollution can be flagged to residents. situation is, predict how much worse it to weed out the devils in this sorry tale, but will get, and – critically – identify where data can still be a powerful tool for social Purpose and profit to focus our efforts to turn things around. good – and that includes Facebook. Sometimes there is purpose and profit. The data will be both public and private, so For example, researchers from Boston A project in Spain combined pollution dealing with it requires delicacy. Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts, found and consumer data to show that people “Corporations have a lot of data that, that in areas where there were lots of spend €25m-€41 million (£22m-£36m) if unlocked in one way or another, Facebook ‘likes’ for healthy activities, the less on days when ozone pollution is could be used for a variety of public obesity rates were lower; where the social 10% worse than usual. When particulate good objectives,” says Stefaan Verhulst, media love was for TV shows, people were matter pollution is 10% worse than usual, co-founder and chief research and more likely to be overweight. Online social spending falls by €20m-€30m (£17.6m- development officer of The Governance networks such as Facebook represent £26.4 m). The results provide a timely Lab. But because not many yet a high-value, low-cost datastream for kick up the backside for governments, understand how their data can be used looking at health at a population level, says including the UK’s, to improve air quality. for public good, he adds, there is “quite John Brownstein, one of the team involved And these examples are just the tip of often no imagination of what the value of in the study. Indeed, the tight correlation the iceberg. In time, data from Uber and private data might be”. between Facebook users’ interests and taxis could be combined with that from obesity data could help to generate real- smartphones to better understand how DAVID BURROWS is a freelance journalist
THE DEVIL’S WORK OR HEAVEN-SENT OPPORTUNITY?
The number of Facebook 0 MILLION ‘likes’ needed for a University €20m-€30m of Cambridge algorithm to judge psychological traits as effectively as a spouse 2 50 million The number of Americans whose 300 The number of days’ warning of The amount by which spending personal data was harvested from pollution problems that Telefónica in Spain falls by when particulate Facebook, “improperly shared” Brazil can give using mobile network matter pollution is 10% worse and possibly used to influence the data to monitor air quality in São than usual, according to 2016 US presidential election Paulo, allowing traffic to be diverted pollution and consumer data
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echnological advances in materials and computer sciences are fuelling innovation within the built value is still being defined. Currently, many environment, data-driven applications and sectors are allowing us to design based on a centralised system; a single and create more point of information capture, storage and efficient, intelligent analysis. In contrast, DLTs use a network of and safer buildings. However, increasing connected ‘nodes’, distributed across various globalisation T and interconnectedness brings geographies, institutions and countries, with new challenges – from modern slavery, to each holding the same record of transactions counterfeit materials and certifications – so within a specific database or ledger. Any much effort must be focused on addressing transaction of value, be that information these issues. or monetary, is verified by consensus Among current innovations, ‘distributed and recorded chronologically using the ledger technologies’ (DLTs) are unique. Their transaction’s cryptographic number by every principle use is as a means for creating more node within that DLT – in doing so, a trusted, reliable, trusted and shared data sources, but transparent record of actions is created. the scope of their application and potential The concept alone is hugely disruptive. By removing, or at least limiting, the need for intermediaries and allowing a widely Shamir Ghumra and Harriet distributed real-time means of sharing information, the potential for innovation is Cooper examine distributed amplified. Further to this, there is a particular ledger technologies and type of DLT known as ‘blockchain’. their feasibility in the built Blockchains package together a number of unique transactions, identified by environment their unique cryptographic number,
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Need Do we really need blockchain if we “Any transaction of value, be that are doing all of these things already – blockchain isn’t opening up new information or monetary, is verified by commercial areas, it is just bettering what we are already doing. We need to consensus and recorded chronologically understand fully how exactly blockchain – in doing so, a trusted, transparent will improve each of these areas. record of actions is created” Cost The cost of using blockchain would be high, especially at the beginning. A lot of data would require a lot of capital. For example, Ethereum is charging a lease for its open-source blockchain, and there is a cost for every In its basic form, blockchains and DLTs transaction made (needed for validation provide the means to create an auditable and creation of the block). This cost trail of transactions; however, the scope could be from running your own private goes far beyond recording peer-to-peer nodes or financial costs to facilitate into a ‘block’. This is then chained to the trading. Being a ‘trustless’, unchangeable, the transactions. previous block in the sequence using decentralised record gives potential for a cryptographic signature or ‘hash’. In the technology to address many societal, Governance and legality this way, a blockchain can be used in environmental and economic issues. Governance is important, both for exactly the same way as a distributed It was within this context that BRE contributing to trust and to understand ledger, but it also allows for other sought to shed some light on the what legal implications there are for elements to be included. For example, feasibility of such applications in the blockchain (particularly with smart the creation of blocks acts as a ‘proof-of- built environment. contracts). We need to understand work’. This prevents fraudulent addition how there can be more assurance for to the blockchain, as it increases the Assessing application countering human error in blockchain; necessary computational and electrical University College London has recently trust and boundaries are key. power required to alter a block (and any initiated a Centre for Blockchain superseding it) and to hold more than Technologies 1, while other research-led Holistic view the 51% of nodes that are required to do foundations and governmental bodies With all of the suggested applications, this. In removing the requirement for a such as Lloyd’s Register Foundation2 and we must look at the bigger picture. ‘trusted’ third party (a single centralised the Government Office for Science3 have In particular, we need to understand control), blockchains are able to create a released reports outlining the potential whether blockchain would help or decentralised system that does not require impact of these technologies. However, it hinder decarbonisation, energy usage, trust. Instead, self-executing peer-to-peer is still early days in terms of understanding etc, and what cultural and societal issues blockchain would address/create. transactions are carried out, which are the scope for this technology group. recorded and verified by the whole system, As with any disruptive new innovation, Further reading therefore removing the need for one there is a need to fully understand early on 1 Visit the UCL Centre for Blockchain trusted body and it becoming ‘trustless’. how it functions and how it could be used. Technologies at bit.ly/2Kr2BPV Proof-of-work is then rewarded with BRE, funded by the BRE Trust and ‘tokens’, which can be anything from 2 Visit the Lloyd’s Register Foundation representing specific assets to a means of to download the Insight report on tracking things through the blockchain. distributed ledger technologies at In addition, this form of DLT allows for bit.ly/2HvATUe rules to be determined for a transaction, 3 Download the Blackett review of as code can be added into the blockchain. distributed ledger technology from the Code can determine conditions for data Government Office for Science at to be added to the chain, creating a self- bit.ly/1KoEw50 automated process.
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supported by Constructing Excellence, Blockchain engaged with key stakeholders in The pros and cons the built environment to prepare a landscape review of the potential BENEFITS DISADVANTAGES opportunities and risks associated with blockchain and DLTs. ● Blockchain could address the ● Would require large uptake Two workshops were facilitated sector’s poor payment record by across the sector. through the Constructing Excellence providing an automated platform. COMMERCIAL network. The first focused on understanding how blockchain and DLT could be applied, the ● Circular economy traceability. potential benefits and problems with ● BIM already provides a lot of these benefits. However, BIM application, and what specific sector ● Material/building passports would show exactly where a Level 3 could not work without areas these technologies would apply DIGITAL something new – blockchain material came from, who supplied PASSPORT to; while the second investigated it, and who installed it. could solve this. specific sector applications and wider issues related to blockchain and DLT application. Common themes were evident ● Proper delivery of tasks, ● You cannot change a coded as criteria can be coded into required/contract. However, you throughout the workshops, with the the chain to prevent addition of SMART can cancel it and replace it. necessary next steps being both clear information/exchanges. CONTRACTS yet potentially large in scope.
Summary of findings It is evident that DLTs and blockchains ● Being a trusted single source ● New skills would be required to are a complex group of technologies of verification will save time, as adopt a new approach, alongside different bodies will no longer need that could potentially be applied to a a cultural change. to verify things multiple times. PLANNING wide selection of built environment sectors in a diverse manner. Each potential application comes ● Better hypothesise developments. ● Currently, there is value in with a further set of questions lack of transparency of building ● Save time, allowing better planning. information. You might not and implications that warrant ● be able to get this digital twin further investigation. Add value to property with blockchain-verified data. DIGITAL – instead the value would Blockchain itself is a relatively new TWIN come from adding quality to technology that is still evolving and ● Use for nuclear decommissioning. this information. growing; what may not work quite yet for a given application may become a possibility in the very near future. ● Prove you have built to the ● Hugely complex area that might There is potential to create disruptive necessary standards. fundamentally change. applications that could reinvigorate the BUILDING REGS industry. However, with that comes a whole new world of governance, legal implications and regulation that must ● Address responsible working and be developed alongside any application modern slavery by verification of in order for it to succeed. labour providers. ● Privacy implications (would need to be private data). ● Create a digital identity LABOUR AND SHAMIR GHUMRA is BREEAM verification at an individual level. SKILLS director and HARRIET COOPER is a graduate consultant at BRE. This article was adapted from the ● Increased speed of transactions. BRE Trust paper, ‘Blockchain ● Address security concerns ● Complexity of – Feasibility And Opportunity surrounding increased interactions/nodes. connectedness of the INTERNET OF Assessment’, which is available to built environment. THINGS download at bit.ly/2EVi3UF
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Peter Bosshard Unfriend Coal’s campaign coordinator, Peter Bosshard, talks exclusively to TRANSFORM about the insurance industry’s progress in cutting its ties with coal
Why is it so important for the some do not value their brand enough. In insurance industry to move away the US, many companies still believe that from coal? Climate science tells us we anything not directly business related need to stop building new coal power is outside their responsibility. Which is plants and phase out existing coal really an outdated understanding of the infrastructure as quickly as possible. role of business. Responsible companies There is no silver bullet to achieve know they have to do the right thing, and that, but insurers are critical actors as we need strict government regulations to underwriters and investors. If they do not resolve the problem. provide coverage then projects will have to shut down, and, unlike other actors, Will there be a cut-off point where insurers are aware of the climate risks coal becomes uninsurable and facing society because they have warned all insurers just stop providing about them for decades. coverage? Well, with the shrinking carbon budget for the planet, hopefully How do you rate the industry’s the sooner the better. I am confi dent progress in shunning fossil that in 2018 we will make progress with fuels? We have seen relatively rapid “It is unacceptable the European laggards and will make a momentum, fi rstly on the divestment dent in the availability of coal insurance, side, but more importantly with to warn about at least in terms of price. If more of the underwriting. Some of the biggest actors big actors move out and it is just the – particularly in Europe – are moving climate risks and specialist companies involved, insuring away from coal, including AXA and keep insuring coal” coal will become a lot more expensive. Allianz, and we are expecting similar I am also confi dent that by the end of things from Swiss Re and Zurich. But we So what can be done to accelerate next year we will get US insurers on still see important laggards in Europe, progress? We need to, of course, keep board, and reach critical mass, and such as Munich Re and others, and there up public pressure, and there also needs largely make coal uninsurable. is no progress in the US. We need to do a to be a campaign set up in the US. lot more work in America and we plan to. Brokers need to do more, but it is the Is the Unfriend Coal campaign regulators that can really help spur action. targeting asset managers, What do you think is driving that The Prudential Regulation Authority banks, pension funds and other shift? When it comes to underwriting, I in the UK has played an important institutional investors? Unfriend Coal think it is mainly the reputational costs. role highlighting climate risks to the is focusing on the insurance sector, but It is an unacceptable position to warn insurance industry, but other regulators other organisations behind the campaign about climate risks and keep on insuring have been slower to recognise them, so – like Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace coal – customers and staff will not stand they also need to get in on the act. and 350 – have been focusing on banks, for it. Most insurance professionals take pension funds, government regulators pride in being on the right side of climate But if these insurers understand and utility companies. Insurers think change and being part of the solution. On the fi nancial and environmental they are being singled out, but they the divestment side, it helps that there is a risks, why are there still so many should recognise that they are late to strong argument for the fi nancial risks of laggards in the US? Unfortunately, the party. I am really excited about the supporting coal, as it is in the interests of they continue to think in the short-term, momentum at the moment and think investors to move away from it. and make a business out of that – I think we will see further progress soon.
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BRE announces new director of BREEAM Ethical and CONNECT sustainable SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS FROM IEMA construction champion NETWORKS Dr Shamir Ghumra FIEMA CEnv is to take on a The Future of ESIA – Enabling new role at the helm of BREEAM. Formerly director of sustainable products, Ghumra has a Access to Young Professionals strong background in ethical construction, leading on the How do you get experience in a field that requires a wealth of experience? This is an issue for development of their global young environmental and social consultants looking to work on environmental and social Ethical Labour Standard BES impact assessments (ESIAs) on a global stage. 6002 as a way for organisations IEMA’s Global Environmental and Social Assessment Group (GESA) established a Young to evaluate and eradicate modern Professionals Working Group to look into solutions to improve access for junior consultants slavery from their supply chains. to build the experience and skills necessary to deliver competent environmental and Ghumra said: “I am very social assessments. The first event – ‘The Future Of ESIA – Enabling Access To Young pleased to take on this role. Professionals’ – will be held in London on 22 September and will include insights from guest I look forward to meeting and speakers on both the consultancy and lender sides of industry and an open panel discussion working with our many partners, aimed at addressing limitations for young professionals accessing international experience and assessors and international clients the potential options available to resolve this experience gap. as we collectively use BREEAM If you are in interested in attending, sign up to IEMA’s GESA Young Professionals Working to build a better world together, Group on LinkedIn to find out more and book your place for the event. benefiting people, businesses and If you’re an experienced professional and believe you can offer insight or are our planet.” willing to give a presentation on international ESIAs, please contact us at [email protected] IEMA Fellow nominated at WEBINAR 21 JUNE British Ex-Forces in Business Awards SDG Success: Andrew Whitehorn Translating FIEMA of Sustainable Workplace Development Solutions was Goals into nominated for a Lifetime Business Achievement award at Opportunities the high-profile British Ex-Forces How do we make sustainable in Business Awards event at the development goals (SDGs) inaugural ceremony held on central to our business? 17 May in London’s De Vere Grand That is the question every Connaught Rooms. business should be asking. The event is the largest-ever Join Louise Scott, PwC celebration of the ex-forces in WEBINAR 5 JUNE UK director in global business community, bringing Beat Plastic Pollution, If You sustainability, who will together top business leaders, provide the business case for companies, military personnel, Can’t Re-use It, Refuse It engaging your organisation politicians, journalists and other A call to action for us to come together to combat one in mapping its commitments stakeholders to raise awareness of the great environmental challenges of our time. to sustainability against the of resettlement issues, encourage This day gives us an opportunity to consider how we SDGs. She will offer practical the development of ex-forces can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce examples of organisations employment schemes and the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural successfully engaging with promote the significant value that places, our wildlife – and our own health. Join us and this framework, as well as military-gained skills can provide make your own pledge to support sustainability. the tools available. to the UK economy if better To book: bit.ly/WED5June To book: bit.ly/2rtq2Ad utilised across the workforce.
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Why did you become an commercially and fi nancially aware environment and sustainability environmental professionals can infl uence professional? I have two personal key decisions and help raise the profi le of interests; politics and the environment, the profession. and I am interested in how eff ective CAREER PROFILE legislation or policy can infl uence the Where would you like to be in fi ve environmental agenda. Essentially, this years’ time? Ideally, in a leadership brought me to work on environmental role where I can infl uence the strategic matters in local government. Muhammad direction of an organisation to maximise environment and sustainability benefi ts. What was your fi rst job in this fi eld? Ali MIEMA My fi rst role was as an environment What advice would you give to adviser in the food sector in Nottingham. Environmental manager/portfolio someone entering the profession? I was responsible for ensuring sponsor for environment and air I started my career with a placement and compliance with environmental permits I still think that’s the best way to get the and improving the environmental quality, Transport for London required experience and fi nd your fi rst job performance of two food manufacturing in the fi eld. facilities by implementing an What’s the best part of your work? ISO14001 environmental Working on a unique set of projects How do you use the IEMA Skills management system. to improve air quality and reduce the Map? The IEMA Skills Map is a useful tool health impact of air pollution and I use it to review and understand any How did you get your across London. gaps in my skills. fi rst role? After my MSc in environmental management What’s the hardest part of If you had to describe yourself in from the University of your job? In the current fi nancial three words, what would they be? Nottingham, I did a climate, explaining the benefi ts of Committed, optimistic and professional. voluntary placement with incorporating green infrastructure a Groundwork Trust and in and biodiversity within civil What motivates you? Seeing my third month was off ered my first job. engineering projects. environmental issues such as air quality and climate change gaining a higher What does your current role What was the last development profi le over the past two decades. involve? I oversee implementation of event you attended? An event about various environmental improvement integrating green spaces into linear What would be your personal motto? projects in line with the Mayor’s Transport infrastructure like cycle superhighway, Believe you can and you are halfway there. Strategy. This involves securing funding, rail and road schemes. writing business cases and putting in Greatest risk you have ever taken? place robust governance and benefi ts What did you bring back to Rejecting a PhD off er to take up a post as realisation plans. I am currently working your job? It was very useful to hear an environment adviser. I can safely say on implementation of the Ultra Low about challenges faced and solutions that it was the best decision Emission Zone in central London to off ered by other organisations, as well I’ve made. reduce air pollution. Other projects as tools to monetise the benefi ts of include installation of rapid charge green infrastructure. If you could go points across London to increase uptake back in history, of electric vehicles, and implementing a What are the most important who would you variety of schemes under the Mayor’s Air skills for your job? I believe eff ective like to meet? Quality Fund. communication and stakeholder American marine engagement are vital skills for my job, biologist and How has your role changed/ owing to the nature of our organisation conservationist progressed over the past few years? and type of projects that I work on. Rachel Carson, Early on in my role at TfL, I was mainly whose book Silent responsible for providing environmental Where do you see the profession Spring helped support to business then gradually moved going? Consideration of environment advance the global into environmental impact assessment of risks and opportunities are an increasing environmental infrastructure projects. priority at board level. I believe that movement.
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