Environmental managementdelivering the requirements for change

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Environmental management-delivering the
requirements for change

• Russell FosterChief Executive, IEMA

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Environmental Management Delivering
Requirements for Change

• Russell FosterChief Executive
• Institute of Environmental Management Assessment

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Humble Beginnings

• Careers in the late 1960s
• Tradition and stereotyped
• Awakenings in the 1980s
• Early days, Waste Minimisation being recognised
  by forward thinking companies
• Environmental Protection Act of 1990
• Looking back now, it really made a difference
  turning point
• Lull in the mid 1990s
• Budding Environmentalists disillusioned
• Resurgence 2000 onwards
• Environment takes off, driven by need and desire
• 2007 was seen as a good year for the
  environment!

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IEMA Institute of Choice

• Launched by Michael Meacher in September 1999
• Merger of IEM and IEA
• 4,000 members then
• Over 13,000 members at the end of May 2008
• Still growing / just scratching the surface
• Rapid growth due to internal and external factors
• Internal thirst for knowledge, help and support
  for our members
• External waking up to the environment by all
  and sundry
• Usual benefits associated with Institutes
• Networking (13 UK regions/150 events per year)
• the environmentalist (now up to 20 issues per
  year)
• Website (over 17 million hits in 2007)
• Membership surveys (important insight passed onto
  relevant
• external bodies)
• Full career path and advice (over 3,000 jobs on
  IEMA webpage)

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Paths to success leading to Chartership
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Membership Breakdown(End May 2008)

• Student 694
• Graduate 919
• Affiliate 3069
• Associate 7417
• Full 683 Total membership
• Fellow 41 Individuals - 12884
• Hon. Fellow 8 Corporate - 291
• Retired 53 TOTAL - 13175
• Corporate 291
• CEnv 488

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Broad Church

• Regardless of sector, all Environmental
  Practitioners must
• Juggle the environmental needs of their company
  (plate spinning)
• Wrestle with existing UK environmental
  legislation, e.g. Producer Responsibility and
  WEEE whilst also considering applicable EU
  regulations
• Be aware of future environmental legislation,
  well in advance and alerting the decision makers
  around them on what must be done
• Cajole colleagues of the importance of their work
  get them to see the green light
• Champion the cause!

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Tree huggers to true professionals

• Recognition of the growing importance of the
  environmental practitioner
• By Government, stakeholders and public alike
• Not just an add on to Health and Safety
• Very much a stand alone profession in its own
  right
• Full career path now available, sitting in line
  with other recognised professions, e.g.
  engineering, accountancy etc
• All companies must have a robust Environmental
  Management System (EMS) cascading through the
  companys line management and driven from the
  top, assisted by their environmental person
• EMAS, ISO 14001 and our Acorns stepped approach
• We have come a long way in 40 years!

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Crystal Ball Time

• EMS mandatory for all companies
• Government driven.by??
• Full membership/Chartered Environmentalist
  recognised as license to operate
• Government driven.by??
• Creation of 1 Institute for Environmental
  Practitioners
• Amalgamation of current entities Government
  driven.by??
• The environment rising up every Board agenda
• Top ten placing from here on in you bet!
• UK plc leading the way internationally
• Still much to be done in the global environmental
  arena, that
• we can influence

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Final thought

• Last year Baroness Young, who recently moved on
  as CEO of the
• Environment Agency, likened Climate Change to
• World War III Id like to assure her and others
  that
• The troops are ready
• Contact the barracks
• IEMA
• St. Nicholas House
• 70 Newport
• Lincoln
• LN1 3DP Thank you!
• Tel [phone]
• www.iema.net

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Question and answer session