The IES is pleased to launch its strategy for the period July 2021- June 2024, titled Guiding Transformative Change. This strategy captures the best of the values of our fifty-year history, whilst recognising the accelerated role we must play in helping members and society overcome a series of interlinking challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, soil depletion, deepening inequality, and public health issues.

To overcome these crises, society will need to undergo transformative change over the next 30 years and the economy will need to be retooled in a process analogous in its scale and complexity to the industrial revolution. To build capacity to manage this transformation and to accelerate and validate this process, we need a knowledgeable, diverse, trusted, skilful, and engaged environmental science profession.

The strategy contains a new additional purpose - to unite science and people to resolve environmental challenges - that recognises the broader role that the IES plays as a charitable organisation. The next period will see a greater focus on public engagement and stimulating critical conversations across disciplines. It will also see the continuation of a number of successful themes from the last strategy.

We look forward to working with our members and partners to implement this strategy. 

Read the strategy (pdf)