Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK

The Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK (BCSD-UK) is the Scottish part of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK. It 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'BCSD-UK website, 2004, accessed via web archive Nov. 2008. It is funded by the Scottish Executive to the tune of £100,000 in 2002-03 and £100,000 in 2003-04 Scottish Executive Website This is despite the fact that its board is made up of some the biggest companies in the world. 
This indicates how business is seen as the innovator and solver of environmental problems by the Scottish executive and also by the Blair government. Illustrated also by Blair's comment in a speech in 2000 that 'Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe this is a serious proposition', this however simply shows the degree to which he operates in a parallel universe. Address to the Green Alliance-CBI conference on the environment, 24 October 2000, Number 10 website, News, accessed Nov. 2008
In fact the WBCSD is at the forefront of corporate attempts to undermine environmental action, lobbying worldwide against regulation and in favour of voluntary 'solutions'. In Scotland the environmentally conscious members of the BCSD include road building consultancy Scott Wilson, the biggest users of natural (Water) resources Scottish Power and the brewers Scottish and Newcastle and the oil giant Shell. Even more unsavoury is the membership of Pegasus-International, the debt collectors, hardly a sustainable business. Inchferry Consulting, amongst whose clients are BP are also members. The Scottish BCSD is involved with the Executive in the Scottish Waste Minimisation Steering Group, in the Scottish Industrial Symbiosis Programme and in the Scottish context of FutureBuild Scotland - Scottish Steering Group, BCSD website 2004accessed via web archive, Nov. 2008. Don't know what these are? Don't worry, you are not meant to.
The beauty of partnership working between government and industry is that you never have to tell the public what you are doing; you just get on with it in subterranean discussions and quiet agreements. Handily enough the Executive have invited the BCSD into its consultation on the Scottish Green Jobs Strategy. The WBCSD is a peak business lobby group dedicated to resisting environmental progress. In Scotland it is at the heart of the policy process. Indeed the Executive 'agreed BCSD Scotland's' programme of work' and even 'provided financial support to the initial stages of this, up to the end of March 2004'. BCSD-UK website, 2004, accessed via web archive Nov. 2008
==Scottish Steering groups events==
SCOTLAND - Scottish Steering Group
The BCSD-UK is actively assisting the delivery of sustainable development in Scotland. The secretariat asked at a General Meeting hosted in Edinburgh in November 2003 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.
For latest Scottish activity see September BCSD-UK newsletter.
For previous Scottish activity see [June 04 BCSD-UK newsletter].
Interim (February 2004) [Activity Report].
BCSD-UK has been involved in the consultation process concerning the Scottish Executive's Green Jobs Strategy.
== Scottish Executive Funding ==
A recent
==The Member Companies==
	
* Environmental Business Communications
*Inchferry Consulting 
*Pegasus-International 
*Scott Wilson 
*Scottish Power ]
*Scottish & Newcastle ]
*Shell 
*William Tracey 
*WSP Group 
*Tom Davy (OBS) 
== 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 
==Resources==
*John Wilson, Sustainability and Biodiversity Division, Scottish Executive 20/02/07 10.19 am; Email response to freedom of information request for Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK: Funding by Scottish Executive
==Notes==
Category:Scottish Corporate Lobby GroupsCategory:Scotland