Promotion of SocEnv : Society for The Environment: Overview By John Yarnall CEnv. IOM3-EMMS Meeting 9 th November 2016, Loughborough University
Contents: • Introduction • History of SocEnv. • About SocEnv • Aims and objectives of SocEnv • SocEnv activities • Sustainability • Membership: CEnv-what are the benefits • Publication references • Contacts
Introduction: • The first IOM3 Chartered Environmentalist Forum was held at IOM3 HQ in London on 27 Sep 2016 to bring together IOM3 Chartered Environmentalists and those wishing to gain registration. • IOM3 is a participating Institute partner along, with 23 other licensed Bodies, where professional engineers and scientists from all disciplines engage with sustainability of materials and the human environment. • Global responsibility for a sustainable future is not only the domain of Environmental Specialists, but for all who interact with protecting and shaping the future of our planet. • Engineers and scientists have a unique opportunity to play an important lead role in key decision making to ensure recycling of materials is part and parcel of best available design fit for purpose. • The concept of ‘Circular Economy’ is here… it’s a materials world which sustains the global economy and our well being!
History of SocEnv: The Society for the Environment is a new and rapidly developing organisation.The idea grew out of discussions in the early 1990s between leading organisations in the environment sector. As a pioneering group they identified the need for a strong independent body to champion and regulate the expertise of today’s environmental professionals Eight professional bodies came together to form the Society in 2002. When the Royal Charter was granted in 2004, the number had risen to ten: some examples below • Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) • Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) • Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) • Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM) • Institute of Water (I Water)….
About the Society: • The Society for the Environment is a not-for-profit umbrella body which brings together professional institutions from different sectors and licenses them to award the qualification Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). • There are now 24 licensed professional partners, who between them have registered over 8,000 Chartered Environmentalists. • The high standards of the license and award of CEnv is upheld through the Society's Registration Authority. • The partners work closely with the Engineering Council and the Science Council to ensure parity of standards to foster collaboration across professional registration. All three bodies have a representative on the Registration Authority of each of the others.
Objectives of SocEnv: • The object for which the Society was constituted is to promote the advancement of dissemination of knowledge, and education in the latest environmental practice for the public benefit. . • To provide advice and respond to proposals and Public enquiries relating to the regulation and advancement of good environmental practice. • To ensure, where appropriate, collaboration with other bodies of all matters viz materials, engineering resources, and energy connected to global environmental sustainability models. • To observe and support, where appropriate, UK governmental policies in respect to environmental legislation and its delivery. .
SocEnv Activities: • It is SocEnv’s aim to focus the expertise of its member organisations in order to deliver a sustainable future for everyone: the vehicle by which this is to be achieved is via programmes of learning/networking. " Sustainability through environmental professionalism ” • To deliver better public knowledge and understanding of environmental management, best practice, and sustainable development. • To promote: by nurturing and harnessing the combined resources, knowledge, expertise and achievements of the professional members and learned bodies .
Sustainability: • ‘Sustainable development can be described as that which meets the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. Sustainable Develoment Commission. • Today there is unprecedented consensus that the local and global environmental challenges we face demands urgent action. corporations, political leaders, learned societies as well as the public all speak of ‘sustainable development’, adding to those long -standing voices of the environment movement itself. • The ‘Circular Economy’ by definition: “A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life”
Membership: • CEnv gives environmental practitioners recognition beyond their specific sector and demonstrates competence within and a commitment to environmental best practice within their particular field of expertise. • Many employers, specifying ‘CEnv’ as a recruitment requirement gives confidence in the environmental competence and professionalism of employees. • CEnv is helping to establish ‘environmentalism’ as a profession and ensures practitioners are operating at the same high standards across the sectors.
Publication references: • Environmental Times: www.environmentaltimes.co.uk • Circular Economy: https//en.m.wikipedia.org • The Institute of Environmental Science: www.the-ies.org • Sustainable Development Commission:www.sd.commission.org.uk • Sustainable Manufacturing: OECD, www.oecd.org/innovation/green • Recycling Now: www.recyclingnow.com • British Metals Recycling Association: www.recyclingmettas.org
Contact: Society for the Environment IC1.14a Technology Centre Coventry Technology Park Puma Way, Coventry CV1 2TT Tel: 0345 337 2951 www.socenv.org.uk email: enquiries@socenv.org.uk
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