UK environmental charities lack racial diversity, research finds

Lack of representation was worse higher up work hierarchies, with people of colour making up only 5% of workers in managerial roles. Photograph: SDI Productions/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Half as many people from ethnic minorities work in the environment charity sector in the UK as do proportionally across the general workforce, research has found.

Just 7% of people working across environmental charities identified as people of colour, compared with 14% in the workforce at large, according to the data from the Racial Action for the Climate Emergency (Race) report campaign.