Towards Net Zero: Decreasing the environmental impact of surveys |
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| Coordinator 1 | Ms Joanna d'Ardenne (NatCen Social Research) |
The European Parliament and over 30 national parliaments, from across the political spectrum, have formally declared a state of climate emergency. The man-made emissions that contribute to climate change come from every part of the world and they affect everyone. Every industry has a part to play in reducing their emissions, the survey industry included. The aim of this session to enable us to exchange knowledge and ideas on what good environmental practice looks like when designing and conducting surveys.
In this session we invite both survey commissioners and survey practitioners to discuss how we can lower the emissions generated by our industry and how we reduce the environmental impact of our research. We invite you to share the steps your organisation is currently taking, and what steps you hope to take, in order to reduce your environmental impact. We are interested in how environmental considerations can be built into research governance, survey design, mode choice, fieldwork delivery and procurement.
We are interested in environmental initiatives of all sizes, and all stages of completion. We believe that even small steps to reduce emissions are meaningful, especially if these steps can be shared and replicated by others. We also invite you to share any barriers you have faced when bringing environmental considerations into your research practice, and how these barriers can be overcome.