Environmental groups in UK ‘still very white – especially at the top’ | Environmental activism
Environmental organizations “are still very white, especially at the top”, co -manager of Greenpeace He said, as research showed a great improvement in the ethnic diversity of their work forces.
The comments of the Erbia Hamid came at a time when the third annual action was found on racism in the case of climatic emergency (race) in diversity between environmental charitable institutions, where less than one in every 20 of those working in the sector who were identified as colored people or as other racist groups were found Or ethnic.
Average between the workforce in the UK 16 %, or more than one in eight.
“Environmental organizations are still very white, especially at the top,” Hamid said. “I find myself in the meetings of the CEO where I am the only person colored in the room, and I do not feel well in Britain in the twenty -first century. Since measuring the problem is the first step towards solving it, it is good to see more and more institutions that publish data on diversity The ethnicity for its employees.
The lack of improvement comes despite the clear efforts of environmental institutions and the willingness to engage. The researchers said that 161 – the highest number so far – have provided data, including all NGOs in the United Kingdom.
Together, they represented 28,600 employees, more than twice the number of workers who were calculated in the report of the previous year, giving researchers the best image of racial diversity in this sector.
In general, the main number of 4.5 % of workers from ethnic minority groups was less than 6 % recorded in 2023, but researchers said that the largest sample size means that the two people were not comparable to statistically.
In fact, this number, as it seems, descended by including more large organizations, which turned out to have a lower racist diversity than smaller organizations. Remarkably, only 1.8 % of workers in organizations of 500 to 1,000 employees as an ethnic minority, compared to an average of 14.1 % in 10 to 49 organizations.
“The more we discover, the more we realize that there is still a lot of work – but this is not a setback, as long as we remain committed and our protein because of the importance of racial diversity in the first place,” said Mano Monjanids, part of the team that published the report.
“The colored people may be owners in the United Kingdom, however, at the global level, are on the front lines of climate change. Those who are affected by environmental disasters – floods, forest fires, tide and rising islands – are often those who do not get a seat on The table is why acting is very important.
