Moving Sustainability Centre Stage

The whole environmental story, often abbreviated to ‘sustainability’, does not require individuals or organisations to wear a hair shirt, ie. for it to be a painful and expensive duty for them. Sustainability is moving centre stage and so it would be good if this is true!

Across industry publications, conferences and reporting, sustainability now sits alongside other key topics such as security, technical excellence, efficiency, value for money etc. Sometimes the ‘voice’ has felt dutiful rather than joyful, sometime even unconvincing and reluctant. We sense this is changing.

As we discovered last year, this industry has done a great deal of work and made a real difference in its operations across the key areas where it affects the environment – energy, transport, materials, wastewater and waste management etc. This year the tone has changed again, becoming more focused, planned and coherent.