A Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production has been set up by the UK government.
The
business-led group is to provide policy guidance to ministers and will
‘foster debate on the most effective ways that business can move in the
direction of more sustainable consumption and production’.
Chaired
by Neil Carson, chief executive of the UK speciality chemical company
Johnson Matthey, the group will initially run for two years, with
administrative support from the University of Cambridge Programme for
Industry. Details of the work programme will be announced shortly.
Other
members include Tristan Hillgarth, group business development director
at Jupiter International, Peter Jones, development director at Biffa
Waste Services, and Trudy Norris-Grey, UK and Ireland managing director
of Sun Microsystems.
The taskforce has been created as part of
the government’s sustainable development strategy and will add to the
work of a similar group on sustainable procurement set up last year (EP7, issue 3, p1).
