Wales

Welcome from the Wales Branch Chair

Tom Yearley B.Sc (Hons), C.Env, MIEMA

Tom is an experienced sustainability leader with a proven track record of driving environmental, social and economic change. Currently Head of the University of Wales Trinity St David Sustainability Delivery Team, Tom is also the chair of the Welsh Branch of the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges. He has worked in the higher education sector since 2007, including the University of Reading and King’s College London.
Tom has a passion for the environment, in particular carbon management and behavioural change. During 2014, he won an Observer Ethical Award for reducing energy use in the home. This revolved around developing and communicating energy efficiency measures in a domestic setting using social media. He has also been involved in academic projects, including publications in Intelligent Buildings International, Process Safety and Environmental Protection and Association of Researchers in Construction Management.
Since working at UWTSD, he continues to identify opportunities to reduce the organisations carbon footprint and improve the environmental impact. Over the past two years, his team has won an EAUC Green Gown Award and been nominated for two further awards. He aims to drive forward innovation in the sector by maximising the effect of the new Welsh legal framework of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, Environment (Wales) Act and Planning (Wales) Act.

Meetings

Date	Location	Theme	Agenda/Minutes
29th January 2014	Cardiff Metropolitan University		View the Agenda and Minutes here
29th April 2014	Coleg Sir Gar		View the Agenda and Minutes here
15th October 2014	Coleg Gwent - How to get here	Annual General Meeting	View the Agenda here
28th January 2015	Trinity St David (directions attached to agenda)	Sustainable Catering	View the Agenda and Minutes here
20th April 2015	Coleg Cambria	LED Lighting	View the Agenda and Minutes here
11th Nov 2015	Neath Port Talbot College	Annual General Meeting	View the Event
20th April 2016	Aberystwyth University	Big Green Do	View the Agenda
7th March 2017	Virtual via Zoom	Annual General Meeting	View the Agenda
6th June 2017	Virtual via Zoom	Membership and Participation	View Notes here
13th Sept 2017	Cardiff University	Salix, Future Generations Wales Act	View the Event
24th Jan 2018	Swansea University	INSPIRE and Working Groups	View the Event
17th April 2018	Virtual via Zoom	Working Groups discussion	View the Event
23rd Oct 2018	UTWSD Lampeter	SDGs and WFGA	View the Event
4th April 2019	Virtual via Zoom		View the Event

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