How should we respond to the growing global movement to weaken impact assessment policy?

Globally, impact assessment legislation and policy has been suspended or weakened because of COVID-19. This weakening could accelerate when national deficit and economic recovery programs commence. This should be an issue of grave concern to the public and the impact assessment community. How should we respond?

Presenter

Peter Croal is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and has a B.Sc., Geology Degree from Carleton University (1979). Peter has been working in the field of environmental assessment and international development for over 35 years. He focuses on the relationship between environmental management, resource extraction, and poverty reduction in developing countries and the Arctic. 

Where is the evidence? How does COVID-19 present threats and opportunities to the practice of impact assessment, and what should we do about it?

Examples from around the globe will show real effects on impact assessment processes and demonstrate why impact assessment is essential and even more critically important because of the pandemic.

Presenter

Dr Alan Bond: School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia and Extraordinary Professor, Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University (Potchefstroom campus).

The world has pivoted because of COVID-19 – Does IA need to as well?

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