Join us for our next webinar exploring EIA in more detail and its role in supporting the net zero agenda.

This webinar will start with a brief introduction to EIA and to the current requirements to address greenhouse gas emissions in EIA. Some practical examples of how these requirements have been reflected in recent practice will then be discussed, including the relevant findings of a recent research project, before considering how we move towards closer alignment with the net zero agenda.

Our speaker

Joanna Wright MA MSc FIEMA CEnv is a Director within LUC’s Environmental Planning team and an EIA specialist, with an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment. She has almost 30 years’ experience with LUC, which has included involvement in a wide variety of EIA projects, EIA research projects at the national and European level, independent EIA reviews and the preparation of EIA guidance. Joanna also gained an MSc in Carbon Management in 2018 so has been putting this to good use in LUC’s EIA climate change chapters, which were shortlisted in 2019 for the Innovation in Impact Assessment award at the inaugural Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) Sustainability Impact Awards. Joanna was a peer reviewer for the update of IEMA’s EIA Guide to Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation (updated in 2020) and a member of the working group for the update of IEMA’s EIA Guide to Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (updated in 2022). She also authored the climate change chapter for the 3rd edition of the EIA Handbook: A practical guide for planners, developers and communities (2019), led a review of the coverage of greenhouse gas emissions in SEA and EIA on behalf of ClimateXChange (2020) and recently travelled to Jordan on behalf of the Dutch EIA Commission to provide a series of training workshops on integrating climate change into EIA (2022).