Fostering a Sustainability Culture
By Beth Haynes and Rob Ward, Nuclear Waste Services
Published in Nuclear Future 21.1
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SUMMARY
NWS and NDA Group are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer, greener world by 2030. Yet, the UN Global Compact’s Halfway to 2030 report shows that the UK is only performing well on 21% of these goals. So how do we better connect people with action?
NWS has built a cultural maturity framework, based on the Inner Development Goals, to understand how our organisational culture fosters the intrinsic qualities, behaviours and mindset to meaningfully contribute to a more sustainable world.
AUTHORS
Beth Haynes is a HR officer at Nuclear Waste Services. Beth has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical Psychology. During the Nuclear Graduates programme, she completed an 8-month secondment to the NWS Sustainability team, applying her psychology expertise to drive behavioural change in NWS that is holistic, and people focussed. Beth won"best poster” at WM Symposium in Phoenix for her work on fostering a sustainability culture.
Rob Ward is Sustainability Lead for Nuclear Waste Services. Leading and building collaboration towards socio-economic and environmental goals has been the focus of his career, including helping to establish The first Community Partnerships in the UK’s GDF siting process.
He holds Master’s degrees in Leadership from Lancaster University Management School and Engineering from Edinburgh University and is an alumnus of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. He is a Chartered Fellow of the UK Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.