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Promotion of SocEnv:Society for The Environment:
Overview By
John Yarnall CEnv.
IOM3-EMMS Meeting
9th 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: [email protected]
Thank you for your attention