The recent release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and the upcoming COP26 United Nations Climate Change conference has focused the attention of many on the environmental crisis and what actions we must all take.

As part of the Clore Emerging Leaders online programme, a group of Social Sector Leaders are undertaking a Peer Learning challenge examining the role of the social sector in helping mitigate the environmental and climate crisis. The group represents areas across the social sector including young people, housing, social enterprise support, disability and social care, equality, diversity & inclusion and the environment:

Joel Attar (UnLtd), Annie Maclean (ForHousing), Matira Wheeler (Young Westminster Foundation), Anna Severwright (Social Care Future), Clenton Farquharson MBE (Think Local Act Personal) and Gail Smith (Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust).

Together they are developing tools and methods that help show colleagues in the social sector the links between their work and the environmental crisis; and ways they can use this to take positive action within their everyday.