9Jun 2020
Positive take-homes from the She Is Still Sustainable Series

Dr Clare Twigger-Ross recently attended two online seminars as part of the She is Still Sustainable series. 

This is what she had to say about it:

“She Is Still Sustainable (SISS) is a growing network of  mid-career women working in or around sustainability. SISS was to have held a workshop on the 27/28th April but instead held two online seminars.  The first session led by Liz Rivers focused on sustaining ourselves, not succumbing to lock down perfectionism and sharing our thoughts on wellbeing in this strange time. It was uplifting and supportive and set me up for the day. The second session on the next day focused on How do we shape a new future?  Hosted by Alina Congreve, Samantha Freelove and Kerry North, with special guest speakers Farhana Yamin, Solitaire Townsend, Susan Buckingham and Zoe Le Grand, this was an interactive session with breakout conversations as well as presentations.  It was inspiring to hear about what these women are thinking about and doing – from Farhana Yamin talking about focusing on the local with the Think and Do Pop Up in Camden – a community space to give people in Camden the chance to come together to develop ideas and projects tackling the climate and ecological crisis through to  Zoe Le Grand’s  list of how Covid might open up spaces for system change.   The input was great and it was a really stimulating session – very positive and proactive thinking about how to push forward the sustainability agenda.  The group was welcoming, supportive and encouraging and I left feeling positive and empowered.  Penny Walker one of She is Still Sustainable’s founders has written a recent blog talking about the sessions and how they made them work virtually, including a She is Still Sustainable selfie!  It made me think about the value of networks and of meeting people outside my own work/home network, it made me realise how much positive action for sustainability is happening and how important it is to keep on pressing for change in whatever ways we can.   I am still hoping to join them in October in person.”

For more information, please contact Clare Twigger-Ross (Technical Director).

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5Jun 2020
CEP to deliver a new EEA project on Urban Sustainability

CEP has been awarded a new project to assist the EEA in finalising various products on urban transitions towards sustainability

Europe’s State of Environment Report (SOER2020) published at the end of 2019 by the European Environment Agency (EEA) has created a clear mandate for the EEA to work at the urban level.  The SOER2020 built on the previous report in 2015 that concluded “Living well within environmental limits will require fundamental transitions in core societal systems, including food, energy, mobility, urban, fiscal and finance systems. To achieve such purpose profound changes in dominant practices, policies and thinking are needed”.

In 2017 the EEA established a stakeholder process to help develop its integrated work on urban transitions towards sustainability.  This work has been supported throughout by a CEP-led team which has undertaken three previous EEA contracts on urban sustainability.  These projects have been awarded under the CEP-led framework service contract for the EEA which provides assistance on forward-looking analysis, sustainability assessments and systemic transitions.

Continuing this work, a CEP-led team will be undertaking a new contract to support the final preparation of various products including: a report on environmental sustainability in cities (ESIC); a report on the analysis of eight urban environmental sustainability nexuses; and a report on drivers of urban environmental transitions.  CEP will again be working in partnership with LSE Cities , and will be supported by experts from cChange.

For more information please contact CEP’s Ric Eales (Managing Director) or Rolands Sadauskis (Senior Consultant) for more information.

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