Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK

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;

• Chairman Jeff Tetlow- Managing Director- ConocoPhillips
• CEO David Middleton secretariat - Environmental Business Communications(EBC)
• Deputy CEO Peter Laybourn
• Secretary Rory Tait Eversheds

Management Committee

• Peter Braithwaite Arup
• Paul Brooks Corus
• Dave Cutteridge Inchferry
• Martin Gale UPM Kymenne
• Mark Hope Shell UK Exploration & Production
• Simon Green North Lincolnshire Council
• Danny Lawrence Lafarge
• John Mumford BP
• Peter Sharratt WSP
• Mike Ferrow ConocoPhillips.

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].