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 Ondeo Dave Cutteridge Inchferry David Middleton BCSD-UK CEO David Symons WSP Debbie Dorman BCSD-UK Secretariat Douglas Connon Aberdeen Asset Management Duar Fleming EnviroCentre Euan Jamieson Peel Developments George Fleming EnviroCentre Jonny Clark Arup Laurence Bower Ondeo Maf Smith Observer from Sustainable Development Commission Scotland Malcolm Stephenson Shell Mike Ferrow ConocoPhillips Muriel Roberts Chevron Natasha Madiera EnviroCentre Peter Braithwaite Arup Peter Quinn ScotAsh (via Lafarge) Peter Sharratt WSP Sarah Jane Stewart Arup Steve Dunlop British Waterways [3]