Catherine Ross is the Sustainability Manager at the British Library, a new role created a year ago. Before that, she led much of the work towards Net Zero Carbon in the Church of England Environment Programme.

Catherine will tell you about the process of developing the library’s first Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. This wide ranging strategy focusses on four main priorities for action across the Library; “Our Places”, “Our Purposes”, “Our Partnerships” and “Embedded in our Work”.

The British Library is the UK’s national library. It holds one of the largest collections of printed material in the world featuring almost every known language, and cares for over 170 million items from books, maps and stamps to sound recordings and even a copy of every UK domain website.”

There will be an opportunity to ask questions and to join in a group discussion, allowing you to share learning, progress, challenges and questions with other members across the network who are on the same journey.

All members are welcome to attend, regardless of previous experience or knowledge on this topic.  The session will be of benefit to all network members, whatever your size and scope of operations/activity.  From organisations just starting off to those already delivering a sustainability strategy, there will be lots to share and collaborate on, from identifying collective challenges to learning from other approaches.