Environment sector has failed to become more inclusive, study suggests

42 organisations have signed up to a strategy aimed at increasing diversity in the environmental sector. Photograph: SDI Productions/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The environment sector has failed to act on its ambitions to become more inclusive, suggests new research that finds just one in 20 organisations are enacting plans to increase ethnic diversity.

According to a sector-wide survey, out of 44 environment charities, 84% had considered or were taking action over a lack of inclusion, but only 4% said they had a consistently implemented action plan.