Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK

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UK affiliate of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development [1]. It claims to promote sustanable development, but is in fact the key peak business association lobbying against sustainability.

BCSD-UK Management structure

The Management Structure of BCSD-UK is as follows;

Management Committee

Coincidentally Lafarge, of which one of the members of the BCSD mamangement is employed, has recently been exposed by SEPA as one of the main polluters in Scotland.

Scottish steering group

The Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK (BCSD-UK) was created following 'a General Meeting hosted in Edinburgh in November 2003' where the BCSD-UK Secretariat asked 'for a mandate for an Action Plan. With this given, a programme of work was agreed with the Scottish Executive which provided financial support to the initial stages of this, up to the end of March 2004'[2].


Scottish Steering Group Members

Alan Barclay Diageo

Andrew Bright Scottish & Newcastle (Chairman)

Archie Prentice Highlands & Islands Enterprise

Barry Greig Observer from Scottish Executive

Chris Smith, Laurence Bower Ondeo

Dave Cutteridge Inchferry

David Middleton BCSD-UK CEO

Debbie Dorman BCSD-UK Secretariat

Douglas Connon Aberdeen Asset Management

Euan Jamieson Peel Developments

Maf Smith Observer from Sustainable Development Commission Scotland

Malcolm Stephenson Shell

Mike Ferrow ConocoPhillips

Muriel Roberts Chevron

Natasha Madiera, George Fleming, Duar Fleming EnviroCentre

Peter Braithwaite, Sarah Jane Stewart, Jonny Clark Arup

Peter Quinn ScotAsh (via Lafarge)

Peter Sharratt, David Symons WSP

Steve Dunlop British Waterways [3]