Our activity in 2010 - 2011
Sustaine will continue to deliver in its role as champion body for sustainable development, providing ‘support and challenge’ to all organisations across North East England, during the following year.
On the 1 June, Paul Younger joined Sustaine as the new Chair to work with the existing Board and partners to continue to embed sustainable development at the heart of North East England.
Professor Paul Younger, is highly recognised for his work on the science and engineering of environmental sustainability. He is an environmental engineer and hydrogeologist with an international reputation for his pioneering research and outreach programme of community-based projects to remedy the serious threat to the environment caused by water pollution from abandoned mines - work which won a Queen's Anniversary Prize for the University in 2005. He has received two honorary doctorates in 2010, one from the National University of St Augustine, in Arequipa, Peru, and another from the University of Oviedo, in northern Spain.
Paul has recently taken up post as Director of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, based in Newcastle University.
Read the press release on Paul’s appointment to Sustaine here
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