NEED FOR A MINISTER FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Government advisor welcomes Environmental Audit Commission’s call for stronger political leadership on sustainable development issues
Westminster's Environmental Audit Committee's report on embedding sustainable development across Government focuses on the need for greater political leadership from the top, and recommends a new Minister for Sustainable Development placed in the Cabinet Office.
The Sustainable Development Commission welcomes this clarion call to Government to show some clear leadership on the sustainable development agenda.
SDC Chief Executive Andrew Lee said:
'The previous Government's arrangements for sustainable development were widely admired around the world as an example of best practice.
As we start the lead-up to the third Earth Summit, the UK Government must demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that any new arrangements put in place are significantly better than the ones it is so rapidly dismantling. Sustainable development, like climate change within it, must sit above party politics and departmental fiefdoms.
The EAC report hits the nail on the head by proposing that responsibility for this crucial long-term agenda should sit with a senior Minister at the heart of government, in the Cabinet Office. To be effective it will be crucial that this Minister has clout and has the heavyweight backing of No10 and the Treasury.
We have written to a number of key Ministers setting out the critical tests we think should be applied to any new proposals. We hope the Government will take up the EAC's recommendations and will be looking very carefully at forthcoming announcements by Ministers’
Peter Jones OBE joins SWR as non-executive director
Waste management company, SWR, has appointed Peter Jones OBE to its Board as non-executive director. The move comes as the ambitious firm looks to further cement its position as one of the industry’s rising stars.
With more than 20 years experience in the waste industry with Biffa Plc, latterly as Development and External Affairs |16| ENVIRONMENT INDUSTRY MAGAZINE
director, Peter Jones was instrumental in growing the business from a £40 million to £760 million turnover company through organic and acquisitive growth.
Well-known as a public communicator on the economic, technological and socio- political dimensions of the sector, Peter has been a member of Defra's technologies working group, Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) panel and formerly the DTI's Environmental Innovation Advisory Group. More recently, Peter was appointed as the Mayor of London’s Board Member on the London Waste Advisory Board.
SWR Chairman, Angus McDonald, said: “The board of SWR is delighted that Peter Jones is to join as a non executive director. He has an unrivalled reputation in the waste industry in the UK and we look forward to his input.”
Peter Jones said: “The waste industry is poised on the edge of a substantial upheaval in relation to end of life material destinations, both geographically and technologically. Coincidentally, that upheaval is compounded by the need for nimble, adaptive and evolutionary logistics systems as sophisticated as any we are familiar with in the way that consumer products reach our homes.
“SWR epitomize that approach utilising skills required outside the sector. I’m sure that their ideas and working practices, which are heavily focussed on the service potential of materials recovery and the role that information technology can play in supporting the process, will soon become mainstream.”
Giles Whiteley, chief executive of SWR, said: “SWR is part of a small but growing new breed of waste management companies. We are still a relatively young organisation, but one that is forging the way in terms of new and innovative working practices in the sector. Peter, with his hugely impressive track record, will provide an invaluable addition to the team and will no doubt prove instrumental in helping us achieve our ambitious growth plans.”
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