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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

• rganisation.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
• rganisations 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