Seven per cent of people working for environmental charities in the UK are from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, new research shows.
One in 14 of those working for environmental organisations in the UK identify as BAME, compared to the national average of 14 per cent across the wider charity sector, according to the RACE Report campaign.
Released on Tuesday, the report was based on data collected from 94 organisations between April and September 2022, 91 of which submitted data relating to race and ethnicity.
Data collected from 62 organisations showed that 64 per cent of governance and trustee members are white, according to the report.
Some 57 organisations said that 76 per cent of their senior leaders were white, while 7 per cent of leaders identified as people of colour or other racially or ethnically minoritised identities.
Figures show that in 2021, 10 per cent of people promoted across 28 organisations were people of colour.
At governance and trustee board level, 11 per cent of members are people of colour, the only category where environmental charities performed better than the wider charity sector, where 8 per cent of governance/board members are from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds.
The RACE Report was founded by Hindu Climate Action, Nature Youth Connection and Education, South Asians for Sustainability and SOS-UK, which plan to collect and publish this data annually.
Participating organisations include the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, RSPB, WWF and The Wildlife Trusts.