Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.

We are the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

In this episode, we brought together a panel of experts to discuss racism in the environment sector.

Not until humanity begins to understand that they are part of nature and all other species.

We're not going to go anywhere.

We have to do something because if we don't in the long term, the sector will be the much,

much poorer for it.

What is the world that we want to see? What do we want to be able to have and to create and

to give to the children in our lives for the future?

Following our event last year in the wake of

the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, we wanted to hold this

event to discuss what is needed for effective leadership and how to build momentum for change.

Without further ado, I will now introduce our fantastic panel. So we have Sarah Mukherjee, who is the CEO of AIMA, which is the Institute of Environmental

Management and Assessment.

We have Rebecca Monroe, who is Executive Director, Fundraising and Communications at the RSPB.

We have Anna Kadeva, who is the Partnerships and Coms Director for Enroll Yourself,

where she leads ONIT, which is a peer support network, helping women take climate action through their personal finances.

And finally, we have Maxwell A. Amber, who is a PhD student in Black Studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at University of Nottingham.

Maxwell is also the founder and coordinator of the Sheffield Environmental Movement and co-founder of the 100 Black Men Walk for Health Group. I will now turn to each of you for your

opening question. So Sarah, what is the role of leaders in the environment sector and how can

organisations best incorporate anti-racist strategies into their day-to-day work.

Obviously, as a person of colour myself, even in liberal institutions like the BBC, I have had more than my fair share of unconscious and conscious bias active racism.

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