Vets for Climate Action have hosted an Online Masterclass “Climate Action in Practice: Lessons from the Frontline of Veterinary Sustainability” in September. This masterclass, given by Dr Laura Binnie, offers real-world insights, practical strategies, and inspiration for veterinary professionals looking to lead meaningful climate action within their own practices.
In this live & interactive webinar Dr Laura Binnie will cover:
- The origins of the practice’s sustainability journey and its evolution
- Embedding sustainability and circularity into the core of business operations
- Tackling the “not-so-easy wins” and overcoming common barriers
- Achieving accreditation and leveraging it to engage staff, clients, and the wider profession
- Greening operating theatres and clinical spaces
- Enhancing local biodiversity and creating wildlife-friendly habitats
- Setting an ambitious target of net zero by 2030—and the roadmap to get there.
About the Presenter
Laura is a small animal general practice vet, and graduated from Edinburgh vet school, Scotland in 2010, veterinary was her second degree after completing a zoology degree, specialising in parasitology. Laura is based at Paragon Vets, an independent rural mixed practice. Laura has been leading their Green Group and sustainability project at Paragon since 2020 when they began their sustainability ‘journey’.
For about 3 years Laura has been a core member of the Vet Sustain Greener Veterinary Practice working group, this is a wonderful group with whom to collaborate with and to feel supported by, where, together they feel they can really make a difference. Laura is also sustainability coordinator to the XLVets group, a membership of 63 independent practices in the UK.
Laura is the person behind @thesustainablevet on Instagram where she tries to document her sustainability journey and shares ideas and engages with like minded sustainably minded vet professionals and pet owners. Laura’s passion lies in working on solutions to all aspects of veterinary practice and helping make it a more environmentally sustainable profession, one we can all be proud of being part of. She is fascinated by the natural environment and saddened by the biodiversity loss we face, especially in the UK. The scale of this is quite startling. And while Paragon is very proactive about doing what they can to improve their local biodiversity, they realise they have more to do to make a bigger, and more impactful difference.
Details originally posted as “Climate Action in Practice: Lessons from the Frontline of Veterinary Sustainability” (10 October 2025).
WVEA thanks Vets for Climate Action for allowing us to repost their webinar details.
