With many organisations focusing on understanding and reducing a wide range of their environmental impacts, it is often challenging to develop and co-ordinate policy, strategy and action.  The Fit for the Future network is continuing to support members in this key area through the Sustainability Strategy Series, providing members with the opportunity to share ambitions, challenges, approaches, resources, progress and lessons learnt.

Klara Hansen and Grace Francis are in the Sustainability & ESG Team at Cancer Research UK. Over the last year, they have been supporting their team to create and publish Cancer Research UK’s first environmental sustainability strategy.

Klara and Grace will share, with lessons learned, how Cancer Research UK:

·       Set their full scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emission targets in line with international Net Zero targets,

·       Received stakeholder buy-in across the charity, and

·       Have submitted their targets to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) for formal verification, despite being a charity. This will commit them to reducing emissions by 42% by 2030 and 90% by 2050 compared to their 2022/23 baseline.

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.