Partnerships
IEEM has developed relationships with the following organisations that promote and support professionalism within the environment.
These organisations provide the ideal opportunity to promote ecology and environmental management at national, European and global levels.
IEEM is a founding member of the Society for the Environment
The Society aspires to be the leading and co-ordinating professional body in environmental matters and a pre-eminent champion of a sustainable environment. The Society will achieve this by nurturing and harnessing the combined resources, knowledge, expertise and achievements of its 17 Constituent Bodies.
SocEnv has been granted a Royal Charter which enables Constituent Bodies to award their members the status of Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). For the first time environmentalists can achieve a level of recognition enjoyed by many other professions.
There are now over 4000 qualified Chartered Environmentalist professionals working in key environmental and sustainability roles worldwide - in businesses, local government and NGOs.
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IEEM is a member of The European Federation of Associations of Environmental Professionals (EFAEP).
EFAEP is an association of environmental professionals from all over Europe and was founded in 2002 in response to the increasingly important and diverse role of environmental professionals. The restoration, protection and enhancement of the environment is no longer a secondary phenomenon but has penetrated all areas of life. In response to the growing sensitivity of society to environmental issues, the activities of environmental professionals have been steadily growing over the past decades and have become an unquestionable necessity.
EFAEP brings together professionals who are working in the field of the environment all over Europe and gives them an opportunity to exchange their experiences from their home countries, to find common solutions and to learn from successes and failures made in the current and future member countries of the European Union.
ENEP is the European electronic Network of Environmental Professionals. It is a web portal set up by EFAEP, where its members can record their contact and professional details and where both members of EFAEP and non-members can search for environmental professionals. The two main aims of ENEP are to facilitate active communication and exchange of knowledge between EFAEP members, and to provide access to the expertise and experience of environmental professionals at the European level. This will also give the environmental professionals of Europe a platform where they can present their professional profiles, where they can get in touch with each other, and where clients and service providers can meet. ENEP is the unique web tool EFAEP uses to connect its more than 15,000 members. It is currently the only internet site in Europe letting environmental professionals thoroughly describe their own experience and capabilities, effectively classify their skills, and quote their papers and projects in order to build a really complete profile. Find out more at www.environmentalprofessionals.eu.
EFAEP also responds to consultations at a European level. Most environmental legislation comes from Europe and it is vital to be able to influence this through the collective professional voice of EFAEP.
EFAEP also holds seminars and conferences on relevant topics.
EUROPARC is the umbrella organisation of Europe's protected areas. It unites national parks, regional parks, nature parks and biosphere reserves in 38 countries, with the common aim of protecting Europe's unique variety of wildlife, habitats and landscapes.
IEEM joined the Federation to gain both understanding and experience from protected areas in Europe and also to increase our presence and influence in Europe.
IEEM is also a member of the Atlantic Isles Section (www.europarc-ai.org) of the Federation, which works with protected areas and their partners in England, Iceland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Eurosite's mission is to exchange, enhance and promote expertise in the management of sites for nature, throughout Europe.
Eurosite is now the largest network of organisations devoted to nature conservation management across Europe. 27 countries are represented by more than 100 member organisations including public bodies, private organisations and Non-Government Organisations. For the benefit of nature and the human enjoyment of it, the goal of Eurosite is to enhance European nature conservation, through both the management of land and water and through the dissemination of practical information and working directly with site managers.
Eurosite was created in 1989 in response to a clear demand for the exchange of practical nature management information within Europe.
IEEM has joined Eurosite in order to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and experience.
The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.
The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
It supports and develops cutting-edge conservation science; implements this research in field projects around the world; and then links both research and results to local, national, regional and global policy.
In its projects, the Union applies sound ecosystem management to conserve biodiversity and builds sustainable livelihoods for those directly dependent on natural resources. The Union is actively engaged in managing and restoring ecosystems and improving people’s lives, economies and societies.
IEEM is a member of the UK section of IUCN. This meets on a regular basis and tries to add value to the work of its members. Recent events have been on the UK contribution to Countdown 2010, valuing biodiversity and the re-introduction of species in the UK.
IEEM has signed up to the Countdown 2010 declaration: that all European governments and members of civil society, at every level, have taken the necessary actions to halt or significantly reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010.
Countdown 2010 is a powerful network of active partners working together towards the 2010 biodiversity target. Each partner commits additional efforts to tackle the causes of biodiversity loss. The secretariat – hosted by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) – facilitates and encourages action, promotes the importance of the 2010 biodiversity target and assesses progress towards 2010.
