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Environment Top 5: UK Carbon Budget & Growth Delivery Plan
In this episode of EnvCast, we discuss the Environment Top 5 things to consider about the recent Carbon Budget & Growth Delivery Plan.
We cover:
Introduction to the Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan
Energy Security and Lowering Bills
Jobs and Growth
Improved Quality of Life and Health
Protecting the Natural World
This special episode of EnvCast features two Chartered Environmentalists, David Symons and Saul Humphrey.
Speaker bios:
David Symons CEnv, Future Ready Global Lead, WSP
David Symons leads science-based consultancy WSP’s Future Ready® programme, is a Chartered Environmentalist through ISEP, and has been a SocEnv Environmental Professional of The Year in 2020.
Saul Humphrey MSc PhD FCIOB FRICS FICE MCIArb FRSA CEnv – Managing Partner, Saul D Humphrey LLP & Senior Vice President, CIOB
Saul is the Managing Partner of his own consultancy practice eponymously named as Saul D Humphrey LLP. The practice is B Corp (certified). He is an experienced Managing Director, Consultant, Property Investor/Developer and Construction/Project Manager in the Construction sector, specialising in Sustainable Construction. Saul is also a Professor of Sustainable Construction at Anglia Ruskin University. Saul is the Senior Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB). He will become President in 2026. The Chartered Institute of Building is the world’s largest professional body for construction management and leadership, with 50,000 members in more than 100 countries. In 2024, Saul was awarded the Chartered Institute of Building’s National “Sustainability Award.”
Saul is also a Non Executive Director of Great Yarmouth Borough Council’s housing development/property companies, Equinox Property Holdings Limited and Equinox Enterprises Limited; Non-Executive Director/Independent Member of Norwich City Council’s East Norwich Strategic Regeneration Area (ENSRA) Delivery Board; and he is the Managing Director (Designate) of Human Nature (Hethel).
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