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.

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• 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.

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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

Thank you for your attention