LEAF – Improving the environmental sustainability of science laboratories

In honour of World Environment Day, Martin Farley (Sustainable Research Manager, UCL and KCL), Susan Simon (Director Capital & Estates, Medical Research Council) and Rebeca Pereira Crespo Fiadeiro (PhD Student at MRC LMS and Founder of Greening LMS), joined us for the MRC Seminar Series on 4th June.

The MRC is committed to ensuring that its activities are environmentally sustainable. In addition to considerations such as transformation of the existing estate, planning and designing future facilities, increasing biodiversity on our sites and reducing our carbon footprint from travelling, another key aspect of our approach to sustainability is sustainable practice in research laboratories. MRC is leading activities to research practical solutions in this area, together with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS and NERC, with Wellcome Trust also having interest in joining.

This seminar focused on LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework), which provides a structure and advice to scientists and research organisations to improve the environmental sustainability in their daily tasks. During the seminar, Martin Farley introduced the framework and how it works and Rebeca Pereira Crespo Fiadeiro from MRC London Institute of Medical Science, which has achieved LEAF Bronze standard, described the work of the green group at MRC LMS and how LEAF has supported their work.

Watch other seminars in the series here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSus4fp7v7sQuXdUwREyHbUMR8cqNZKYj

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