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The UK government has contracted six industry trade bodies to draw up sustainable development plans for their sectors.
The British Property Federation, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Confederation of British Metal Forming, the Furniture Industry Research Association, the Metals Forum and the Quarry Products Association will each have to implement their individual plans ‘in ways that stimulate practical actions that will lead to improved [sustainable development] performance’.
The contracts, together worth £100,000 ($175,000), have been awarded by tender under the government’s Sector Sustainability Challenge programme. They fulfil a pledge in the government’s sustainable development strategy, introduced in March 2005, to support ‘sectoral or supply chain initiatives to put sustainable consumption and production into practical action’.
The grants are relatively small, but nevertheless signal the government’s desire for trade bodies to play a greater role in promoting sustainable development. Officials believe that social and environmental initiatives from industry groups have a good chance of being taken up because the groups tend to have close relationships with their members and are therefore likely to propose measures that display ‘joined-up thinking’.
The British Property Federation, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Confederation of British Metal Forming, the Furniture Industry Research Association, the Metals Forum and the Quarry Products Association will each have to implement their individual plans ‘in ways that stimulate practical actions that will lead to improved [sustainable development] performance’.
The contracts, together worth £100,000 ($175,000), have been awarded by tender under the government’s Sector Sustainability Challenge programme. They fulfil a pledge in the government’s sustainable development strategy, introduced in March 2005, to support ‘sectoral or supply chain initiatives to put sustainable consumption and production into practical action’.
The grants are relatively small, but nevertheless signal the government’s desire for trade bodies to play a greater role in promoting sustainable development. Officials believe that social and environmental initiatives from industry groups have a good chance of being taken up because the groups tend to have close relationships with their members and are therefore likely to propose measures that display ‘joined-up thinking’.
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