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Green shoots: How to get Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) accreditation
18/9/2024
10 min read
Feature
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Society for the Environment receiving Chartership. Since then, the Society has overseen more than 8,500 professionals receiving professional qualifications such as Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) – also through the Energy Institute. As environmental issues have flowed into mainstream business practice, the Society has an ever more important role to play and its clientele are changing, writes New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple.
Environmental awareness has exploded since the early days of the Society of the Environment, which awarded its first cohort of chartered environmentalists in 2004. That was the year that climate activist Greta Thunberg celebrated her first birthday!
The Society of the Environment’s Chief Executive Emma Wilcox grew up in the 1970s, at a time when news of the environment didn’t figure much. She recalls the first big story being the hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s (now mostly recovered, thanks, incidentally, to the Montreal Protocol of 1987).
Since then, environmental issues – and those people fighting for them – have taken up increasing amounts of attention in the public sphere. And from there, they have been written into law in climate targets or carbon reporting requirements for businesses.