SEM’s CEO, Maxwell A. Ayamba BEM said, he was very delighted to join enthusiastic anti-racism campaigners and activists from the Global Majority at the 2025 RACE Summit, Kings College, London on July 3rd 2025. As part of this year’s RACE Summit, there was a career journey exhibition, showcasing career journeys of people such as himself in the environment and conservation sectors.
He said aim of the RACE Summit is to support people from the Global Majority who want to get into the environment/conservation sectors, and for others to see for themselves the journey others have taken, and the challenges they had to overcome to make an impact in the sector. I found the Summit very inspiring to see the passion and drive on the need for diversification of the sectors especially in this time of climate anxiety and nature depletion. The Summit demonstrated how there is an increasing awakening and agency to make the environment/conservation sectors inclusive and diverse for the common good of us all as one human race, because biodiversity is synonymous to human-diversity.
Activists such as Lauren Rosegreen and Beatrice Anomah organisers of the 2025 RACE Summit should be applauded for their tirelessness to advocate for change in a sector that has been historically constructed and historised as a “white space”. Both our human and natural world stand to benefit from a collective vision to make the environmental space an inclusive thriving space for the good of humanity and planet.
The RACE Report, published annually, supports transparency on the racial diversity of environment organisations and funders in the UK. It aims to encourage action in the sector to address barriers and improve diversity, equity and inclusion of the workforce and governing bodies.
