Diversity is not a competition but a goal that will only be achieved through combined efforts and partnership

Astutis

We are committed to driving positive change within our own business, our partner and customer community through the promotion and delivery of environmental and sustainability skills training.

Banka BioLoo Limited

Diverse Sustainability is not a mere Initiative at Banka BioLoo. We live and practice diverse sustainability every day, at all work sites – making it more of an attitude and a habit.

We shall uphold the diversity of age, class, caste, race, religion, ethnicity, immigration status, ability status, sexual orientation, and most importantly, gender in our policies and practices.

We commit to diverse sustainability internally and externally - in recruitment, promotion, pay and everything else; and very importantly, in our solution delivery to the varied users.

We, already, profess diversity in our work. We'll, further, strengthen it.

Bat Conservation Trust

Our objectives:

• Adding EDI to our risk register and for the issues to be considered at both senior management and trustee meetings.
• Undertaking a survey of staff, trustees, members and other volunteers to understand the current make-up of our workforce and supporters
• Reviewing our recruitment/induction processes and implementing changes to make them more inclusive
• Providing placements for three Kickstarters via the partnership Race 4 Nature
• Providing unconscious bias training for our staff
• Adding WCL anti-racism statement to our website and speaking out more about our work on diversity

Bluedotaug Ltd

Bluedotaug's Vision is 'Change Perception, Change the World' reflecting how all change needs us to rethink how we see things; it's time for the world to see sustainability as profession which represents the real population as how we are perceived right now is out of kilter with reality.

We will uphold this commitment by taking the opportunity to challenge behaviours which aren't inclusive, speaking up in support of diversity and encouraging clients to review recruitment and development policies in the work we do as a consultancy; acting as an ally through coaching and mentoring practice; and as we grow building a diverse culture. Our vision is 'Change perception, change the world' which means helping people to take a different view enables them to do things differently. Our values 'Survive, Hive, Thrive' incorporate diverse thinking to enable us to build an inclusive business. By recognising we don't have all the answers and embracing the opportunity to learn we will make a difference.

British Trust for Ornithology

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) would like to make a public commitment to improving diversity by working towards the following commitments:

• Make Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) more visible on our website
• Add EDI to our risk register
• Provide more EDI related resources to support managers with recruitment
• Introduce blind applications for short listing all jobs
• Provide unconscious bias training for all BTO staff
• Collate baseline information on diversity of staff and applicants
• Consider ways to capture baseline information on diversity of our supporters and volunteer surveyors
• Commit to hosting at least one Kickstart internship

Bumblebee Conservation Trust

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was established because of serious concerns about the ‘plight of the bumblebee’. In the last 80 years our bumblebee populations have crashed. Two species have become nationally extinct and several others have declined dramatically. We have a vision to create a world where bumblebees are thriving and valued ensuring our future food security.

On our website we have an EDI statement: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/how-we-are-run/

We are committed to improving diversity by continuing to listen and learn and build on our journey so far - Successfully achieved the Investors in Diversity for Charities Award ,Member of BEN Staff training and internal forum on EDI. EDI action plan and policy. Members of RN EDI Forum, mentoring young diverse students.

Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management

Working with our members to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion issues within our profession, identifying barriers to diversity and inclusivity and taking collaborative action to address them.

We will use the Professional Bodies Diversity and Inclusion Progression Framework to identify an action plan regarding our own D&I performance.

We have set up a staff and members working group on this issue and undertaken a members’ survey to gather some baseline data. We will use this survey to put more detail around the issues of exclusion and identify actions.

We will run some workshops focusing on issues relating to BAME access to our profession and what needs to change.

We will include addressing diversity and inclusion in our Strategic Goals and keep them visible on our governance agenda.

We will give members a voice on this issue.

We will be a part of change.

City to Sea

Our objectives:

• Increasing staff confidence and competence regarding diversity issues and creating the conditions to diversify our staff, board and volunteers.
• Working with diversity experts and influencers to ensure our campaigns have the best reach to inspire and diversify the movement and sector at large.
• Considering diversity and inclusion in the identification and screening of all new partners to create awareness and shared commitment across the supply chain.
• Sharing our learnings via the Diverse Sustainability Initiative, as well as pro-actively engaging and sharing our findings with other organisations in our sector.

Climate Labs

Climate Labs is a multidisciplinary design consultancy focused on design for sustainability.

We understand in order to make the shift to a regenerative and equitable future, we need to look at ourselves, our organisations and our actions. We continue to work with and stand by sustainability leaders that are challenging the system!

We will uphold our commitment to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative by continuing to challenge the narrative and promote people of colour engaged in pro sustainability action.

Crowberry Consulting Ltd

We operate to ISO9001 Quality Management Standard and are a Lancashire Skills Pledge provider, as well as a Chartered Environmentalist Employer Champion. We are a women owned/LGBT business and work to ensure that our opportunities to join our team are promoted to BAME, women and LGBTQIA applicants consistently.

Energy Confidence with Phil Beardmore

I have oodles of experience in:

• energy saving advice to householders
• energy saving advice to small businesses
• strategic environmental consultancy
• helping to develop new environmental and energy saving projects.

I will mentor an environmental professional who identifies within a minority group, over a 12 month period.

Environmental Services Association

Our objectives:

• Promoting best practice diversity initiatives from across our industry in our annual reports
• Reviewing our recruitment processes
• Reviewing our equal opportunities policy

Fauna & Flora International

Our objectives:

• Reviewing FFI’s Values with a view to explicitly incorporating equality, diversity and inclusion
• Collating baseline data on our diversity within the UK to enable us to understand our current diversity, set transparent targets and measure our progress against those targets
• Transferring from unpaid internships to paid internships and advertising opportunities to reach under-represented groups, in order to improve access to the profession (recognising that unpaid internships create a barrier to diversity and inclusion)
• Creating safe spaces where those from under-represented groups can come together confidentially and share insights and experiences
• Adding Equality, Diversity & Inclusion considerations, both at Governance and Employee level, into our Risk Register
• Reviewing our recruitment and selection procedures to identify where we may be creating barriers to diversity and inclusion, including:

1. Embedding Equality, Diversity & Inclusion principles in our recruitment and selection processes
2. Reviewing our employer brand and redesigning our career site to attract a more diverse talent pool
3. Including positive action statements on our career site and in application packs
4. Ensuring application packs use inclusive terminology and do not overstate the skills/experience required for a role
5. Exploring mechanisms for anonymising job applications
6. Exploring a greater range of advertising media, and particularly social media, to reach a more diverse talent pool

Fit For Purpose Consultancy Ltd

Fit for Purpose is a boutique sustainability consultancy, and our mission is to help businesses to lead through purpose. We help businesses of all sizes identify the positive contribution they can make to people and planet, and then work with them to broaden and deepen those positive impacts, whilst also reducing or eliminating the negative impacts. Our role is to bring purpose to life through identifying key actions businesses can take, and helping them listen and respond to the needs and expectations of a broad range of stakeholders, from customers and staff to the communities where they operate.

Our aim is to build a business which is reflective of diverse society in which we operate. We specifically offer a pledge to diversity by offering mentorships or buddy schemes for professionals who identify as within minority groups within our business. In addition, we have added diversity to our risk register and this is now considered at the highest level of our organisation on a regular basis.

FSC UK

The Forest Stewardship Council ® (FSC®) UK is a registered charity dedicated to promoting responsibly forestry and helping to ensure Forests For All Forever.

FSC UK would like to make a public commitment to work towards improving diversity within the environment and sustainability sector, and among environment and sustainability professionals.

We will initiate this work in our own organisation by:

• Adding the issue of diversity to our risk register
• Reviewing our recruitment processes
• Removing names from application forms
• Reviewing our Equal Opportunities Policy
• Learning from others

Global Generation

Global Generation would like to make a public commitment to improving diversity within the environment and sustainability sector, and among environment and sustainability professionals.

We will uphold this commitment by improving our processes from an Equity and Inclusion angle, particularly focusing on:

• Recruitment: Ensure that our team of staff, trustees, volunteers, freelancers and contractors reflect London’s diverse population and actively seek to recruit to redress imbalances, as well as prioritise local recruitment
• Retention: Retain, develop and progress our staff through ongoing training, by encouraging curiosity, new learning and sharing perspectives and by designing safe channels for feedback
• Accessibility of our gardens: Improve our accessibility in language and layout of our physical spaces. Increase outreach to harder-to-reach groups, prioritise use of the gardens to respond to the needs of local communities. Ensure that our spaces reflect the diversity of our locations through inclusive codesign, made with local communities rather than for local communities
• Inclusive communications: Use of language on marketing materials (website, flyers, hoarding, etc), more use of visuals, translations, sign language, sensory for blind people, welcoming entrances to the gardens
• Global perspectives: Use an equity and inclusion lens when developing programmes, designing gardens, growing plants and in the stories we tell through educating ourselves and working in partnership with people from different backgrounds and with different lived experiences
• Partnership working: actively seek out partnerships from a wider network of local, national and global organisations to ensure we are aware of latest movements and ideas around racial, land and environmental justice

To show progress on these commitments, we will provide an update to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative every six months.

Green Alliance

Green Alliance is an independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. We are committed to meaningful change to become are more diverse and inclusive organisation and to improve diversity in the wider environment sector. Over the next six months, we will:

• Integrate our commitment to diversity and inclusion into our upcoming 2021-2024 organisational strategy
• Develop an EDI action plan that we report to board on twice a year
• Review our recruitment procedures
• Review & improve representation in our external communications
• Ensure the presence of a D&I champion on the board

To show progress on these commitments, we will provide an update to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative every six months.

Greenheart Consulting

Greenheart is a Certified B Corporation full-service social & environmental impact consultancy dedicated to helping companies integrate regenerative thinking throughout their business model.

We specialise in B Corp certification and re-certification, impact strategy & governance and environmental & supply chain sustainability management.

We have committed to working to develop processes, particularly for recruitment, around the following core commitment: "The Greenheart ecosystem must ultimately represent as wide a range of backgrounds and characteristics as possible. Not because we feel we need to but because we want to and recognise the innate strength and resilience that comes from diversity."

Grown in Britain

Grown in Britain works at every stage of the forest product supply chain to support the use of UK timber.

We are determined to play a full role in highlighting the lack of diversity in the sustainability sector and leading change where appropriate. We need to change but first we need to understand and learn in order to act and lead with purpose and therefore we will be engaging with a ‘reverse mentor’ at the earliest opportunity to guide our journey.

IEMA

IEMA is the professional body for everyone working in environment and sustainability. They are committed to supporting, encouraging and improving the confidence and performance of all these professionals, helping them to enhance their profile and recognition.

They believe in changing perceptions and attitudes about the relevance and vital importance of sustainability as a progressive force for good.

IEMA’s Public Diversity Commitment

IEMA aims to create a diverse workforce and a diverse sustainability profession by engaging with partners of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative and reviewing internal practice. Our membership and corporate partnerships will be representative of our global community. We will do this under the three pillars of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative: educate, connect, and open.

Educate

IEMA will educate stakeholders on the experiences of different groups within society and how they can support in breaking down barriers for access and progression, which will lead to a more diverse workforce.

We will achieve this by:

• All IEMA staff undertaking a training programme to identify how they can make changes in their role to support all members by the end of 2022.
• Establishing reverse mentoring within IEMA for staff to learn about experiences of their colleagues and others within the sector by the end of 2022.
• Undertaking research, along with partners of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative, to gain a wider understanding of the challenges and barriers that limit access and progression by the end of 2021.
• Using the findings from this research to generate actions for IEMA’s Diversity Strategy by the end of 2021.
• Working with partners of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative to develop an education programme to assist in creating systemic change by the end of 2022.
• Promoting opportunities to engage in the Diverse Sustainability Initiative education programme to all key stakeholders of IEMA by the end of 2022.

Connect

IEMA will work with partners of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative to create and support meaningful networks that provide a platform for and amplify voices of underrepresented communities.

We will achieve this by:

• Providing an opportunity for all IEMA members to join and engage in sector-wide professional networks that are hosted by the Diverse Sustainability Initiative by the end of 2022.
• Ensuring that the website development project enables members to better connect into relevant communities by the end of 2022.
• Working to increase number of members in different areas of the world, growing the opportunities for members to connect with all cultures and communities.

Open

IEMA will improve the transparency of our work to improve diversity to ensure that we can be held accountable, and we will ensure that systems and processes are accessible to all.

We will achieve this by:

• Adding diversity to the IEMA risk register, ensuring that progress is monitored at Board level, by the end of 2021.
• Attending and contributing to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative accountability group to report on progress every six months.
• Undertaking an Equality Impact Assessment of IEMA membership, including application and upgrade processes, costs, benefits, and standards by the end of 2022.

• Undertaking an Equality Impact Assessment of IEMA’s internal HR policies and practices by the end of 2022.

• Monitoring and improving the diversity of IEMA’s webinar panelists and event speakers to ensure that those given this platform are representative of different identities and cultures.
• Reviewing IEMA’s brand to ensure we are representative of the cultures and communities we seek to engage.

• Partnering with the Race for Nature kickstarter programme and employing two new members of staff through this programme by the end of 2021.

Institute of Water

We will uphold our commitment by:

• Having a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Champion from within our Board of Directors.
• Having a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Policy and Action Plan, which is reviewed annually and reported at our Annual General Meeting.
• Ensuring that our staff, our Board, Area Committees and our volunteer communities understand their role in ensuring that our membership offering is fully inclusive to individuals and organisations irrespective of their size
• Benchmarking ourselves against other professional bodies and employers in the sector.
• Delivering initiatives which enable us to promote under-represented groups.
• Encouraging diversity among our volunteer communities, in particular our Area Committees.
• Supporting the principle of equal opportunities for our staff, by seeking feedback and taking action as needed.

Lou Chiu Coaching and Consultancy Ltd

Supporting those who make their public commitment to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative by:

• offering one complimentary one-hour support call to each committed company

• providing discounted services to best support these companies, which includes external facilitation, allyship training, full cultural analysis, staff scoping and engagement support, and implementing coaching and mentoring programmes

• celebrating and sharing their success stories and best practices to empower and encourage others

Royal HaskoningDHV

A global business, Royal HaskoningDHV promotes a culture where all employees recognise the value that a diverse and inclusive workforce brings. We aim to ensure that no employee or applicant for employment is discriminated against, directly or indirectly, on the grounds of gender, marital status, disability, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious or political belief, age, social background, contract term, working hours, sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic. The Company commits itself to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion and will offer fair treatment in every aspect of work life. We will regularly review policies, procedures and practices under regular review to ensure that people are not unjustifiably disadvantaged by conditions or requirements.

During 2020, we undertook various initiatives towards these aims. We have expanded the remit of our current Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and are developing these towards a global policy and practices. Our global equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lead is heading a network of EDI ambassadors to ensure consistency of EDI practices while taking local knowledge, cultural differences and political and socio-economic considerations into account. Employee networks for disability, LGBTQ+ and diverse ethnic backgrounds have developed to inform and advance our practice and understanding of every individual’s lived experience. These networks are not exclusive, welcoming allies who help drive change to ensure inclusivity.

Our corporate mentoring schemes and Future Leaders programme support the development of skills within all our teams. We have delivered unconscious bias awareness training, and are undertaking a deep review of our recruitment practices to ensure there are no invisible barriers for applicants. We are also actively developing a longer term strategy of developing an apprenticeship programme in the Environment field, challenging assumptions about traditional routes into the profession and with an aim to reach a greater number of applications from underrepresented people.

RSPB

Passionate about nature, dedicated to saving it. Since we started on our mission in 1889, the threats to nature have continued to grow, but we've grown to meet them too.

We’re now the largest nature conservation charity in the country, consistently delivering successful conservation, forging powerful new partnerships with other organisations and inspiring others to stand up and give nature the home it deserves.

We’re pleased to commit to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative. We’re very clear that we need to take concerted action to improve the diversity of the RSPB if we are going to tackle the scale of the nature and climate emergency and deliver our vision of a world where everyone can live in harmony with a world richer in nature. Addressing the issue as a sector and holding each other to account on progress makes complete sense as a way to drive the action required.

Society for the Environment

We will work together with our Member Bodies to systematically remove barriers, enhance diversity and inclusion, establishing accessible pathways into the environment profession for everyone.

Students Organising for Sustainability UK

SOS-UK has three headline objectives, one of which relates to diversity: Objective 3. Making sustainability more inclusive, so it is for everyone. Our 2018 research with IEMA showed that the sustainability sector is massively underrepresented in racial diversity. The negative impacts of sustainability inaction disproportionately affect BAME people and women, both globally and here in the UK. The sector must represent these voices by becoming more diverse.

Surfers Against Sewage

Surfers Against Sewage would like to make a public commitment to improving diversity within the environment and sustainability sector, and among environment and sustainability professionals.

We will uphold this commitment by:

• Adding diversity to our risk register
• Introducing a focused trustee committee, meeting bi-annually
• Introducing an Equality Impact Assessment for all new projects
• Anonymising our recruitment process
• Updating our website with details of work done

To show progress on these commitments, we will provide an update to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative every six months.

Sustrans

Sustrans would like to make a public commitment to improving diversity within the environment and sustainability sector, and among environment and sustainability professionals.

We will uphold this commitment by delivering our vision to become a charity for everyone. Our programme of work includes:

• An end to end review of our recruitment processes to make them more inclusive
• A review of policies and business processes to ensure they are fair and equitable
• Raising up voices and providing a platform for colleagues to share their lived experiences and bringing in other voices.

To show progress on these commitments, we will provide an update to the Diverse Sustainability Initiative every six months.

The Institution of Environmental Sciences

As the representative body for environmental science, it is essential that the Institution of Environmental Sciences proactively seeks to enhance diversity and inclusion across the sector, act as agents for change, and lead by example for the betterment of our society and environment. We recognise the clear need for research, education and reform to identify and address the key barriers which result in low ethnic diversity across the sector. We are leading on a series of Diversity Initiatives to address the ethnic diversity gap, to amplify the voices of those who aren't being heard, and to embed sustainable solutions for a more inclusive, accessible profession. We believe in the strength of collaboration and are proud to become a partner of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative

Total eco Management Ltd. (TeM)

TeM is a leading provider of sustainability advice. We show organisations how to fully engage with sustainability and embed excellence to the highest recognised standard.

Total eco Management Limited are the first Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Certified training provider in the United Kingdom and the first GRI Certified Training course to be accredited by the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA): We are offering an internationally recognised comprehensive two-day GRI Certified Training Programme: Sustainability Reporting with the Global Reporting Initiative.

TEM work with national and multi-national enterprises across the globe, honing their processes to measure, manage, change, and transparently report their sustainability performance. This is about enabling businesses to be profitable and contribute to sustainable global economies. TEM were the official Corporate Sustainability reporting consultant to the London 2012 'Sustainable' Olympic Games.

Verlander Walker Ltd

It’s high time for our profession to become a place where everyone can thrive, be listened to and have their skills and expertise recognised. I’m keen to learn and to do what I can.

I will uphold this commitment by:

• Mentoring at least one person of colour, via IEMA or SocEnv.
• Continuing to work with She is Sustainable / She is Still Sustainable to support women, including women of colour, disabled women and LBTQ+ women, who work in sustainability.
• Explicitly considering diversity and inclusion when designing and delivering work for clients.
• Including diversity topics in my Making the Path by Walking newsletter.
• Seeking out and amplifying the voices of people from marginalised and minority groups.
• Collaborating with others in the sustainability and facilitation professions to learn, to challenge and to improve.

Watts Sustainability Limited

Watts Sustainability provides advice on organisational sustainability strategy. We will use our platform to champion diversity as a key component of sustainable business on client projects we work on and ensure that it is reflected in training and education projects we work on. For our own business (and as an influence on the wider sustainability sector) - we are expanding and opportunities to join us will not prejudice in any way those from BAME, LGBTQ+, persons with disability or any other protected characteristic.

Wildlife and Countryside Link

Wildlife and Countryside Link (Link) is the largest environment and wildlife coalition in England, bringing together 57 organisations for the protection of nature.

We are working to improve our own record on diversity and to support our members in doing so. We have set up a Equality, Diversity and Inclusion working group, which is developing a "state of the sector" report on ethnic diversity. We have set up a safe-space peer support network for people of colour in our membership. We are regularly reviewing our own practices at Board level. We fully support the purposes of the Diverse Sustainability Initiative and we look forward to working together on this essential agenda.

Woodland Trust

By June 2021, we will have:

1. Formulated an internal communication plan that enables every leader to articulate how diversity and inclusion links to the organisation's mission and purpose and to their area of the business specifically.
2. Identified any barriers to greater diversity and inclusion within the recruitment and induction processes, and taking action to remove or reduce these barriers.
3. Integrated our commitment to diversity and inclusion into our organisational strategy.

Working Well Matters

Working Well Matters are a black-led organisation that have been working in the wellbeing sector for some years, helping others to overcome the stigma of both racism and mental health. Our founder, Mike, proudly identifies as a black man and has numerous experiences from within the manufacturing, educational and wellbeing sectors of how institutional and structural racism work within UK society. Mike is our lead trainer and enjoys helping organisations encourage people of all identities to feel able to give of their best.

Wunderkind Consulting Nigeria Limited

Wunderkind Consulting Nigeria Limited, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)-Registration No: RC1553155 is into the provision of consultancy, auditing and training services on internationally recognized management system standards.

Our services include Management System Standards consultancy & training services on the following standards:

• ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System;
• ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System;
• ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health & Safety Management system &
• ISO 22000:2018/FSSC 22000 Food Safety Management Systems.

We have extensive experience in ensuring that practices, processes, procedures and templates needed for the effective implementation and maintenance of environmental management systems and sustainability are established, implemented and maintained in accordance with requirements of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems Standard and other compatible management system standards.

Our Principal consultant (Oluwafemi Adare) is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), a Chartered Quality Professional (CQP MCQI) with CQI/IRCA and recognized lead auditor with Exemplar Global and PECB.

We will uphold this commitment by provision of expert advice and guidance to client organization(s) towards ensuring that practices, processes, procedures and templates needed for the effective implementation of environmental management systems and sustainability are established, implemented and maintained in accordance with requirements of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems Standard.