Environment & sustainability advisory panel
Environment & sustainability advisory panel
The environment & sustainability advisory panel provides independent scrutiny of our environmental and sustainability commitments made to customers in our business plan and environmental action plan.
Role of the panel
As a sustainable business we want to ensure that we’re doing everything possible to minimise our impact on our local communities, region and the UK. The environment & sustainability advisory panel consists of environment and sustainability experts, or experts in their field, who provide advice, guidance and oversight of our sustainability performance, commitment to biodiversity and our environment report.
The panel advises and challenges us to improve and keep delivering the best possible service to our customers and fulfil our ‘licence to operate’ with the communities we serve.
The panel will help us deliver our role in the transition to low carbon including, the delivery of our community and local energy strategy, inform our decisions on how we manage and alleviate our environmental impact within the region and provide feedback on relevant environmental issues that they feel should be a priority for us as a business.
The panel meet four times a year either in person or online. It’s led by an independent chair, Todd Holden, and attended by external panel members and senior leaders from SP ENW to ensure a direct link to the business. The company also provides secretariat support to record actions and outcomes from the panel meetings.
Objectives
- To ensure customer and stakeholder engagement is contributing to shape delivery of our environmental and sustainability business plan commitments and decision-making
- To review business performance and provide guidance and oversight of our ED2 Environmental Action Plan and other sustainability-related strategies and policies
- To act as a critical friend: understanding challenges, expressing views about key issues and priorities, advising and co-creating policies and implementation approaches
- To help us identify and respond to emerging sustainability-related issues and incorporate these into business planning
- To identify opportunities for regional and national collaboration and best-practice sharing
- To act as an advocate for SP ENW, our customers and stakeholders.
Meet our panel chair, Todd Holden
In a variety of local, regional and national roles Todd has spent 30 years helping companies and decision-makers adopt innovative low carbon, energy efficient policies and solutions which have strong economic benefits.
Working at CEO and board level combined with his relevant academic background has given him a broad and deep understanding of the key social, political, scientific and practical issues relating to the zero carbon agenda.
Working in complex partnerships Todd has developed strong interpersonal and communication skills, having worked in the private, third and most recently the public sector and regulated utilities. He is an accomplished public speaker with the ability to inspire and lead others.
Find out more
If you would like to find out more about the work of any of our advisory panels, please get in touch.