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.
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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].
The first BCSD-UK general meeting held in Scotland in 2003 was hosted by the Scottish Executive
Scottish Steering Group Members
Andrew Bright Scottish & Newcastle (Chairman)
Archie Prentice Highlands & Islands Enterprise
Barry Greig Observer from Scottish Executive
Chris Smith, Laurence Bower Ondeo
Debbie Dorman BCSD-UK Secretariat
Douglas Connon Aberdeen Asset Management
Euan Jamieson Peel Developments
Maf Smith Observer from Sustainable Development Commission Scotland
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