Professor joins Scottish Government's Climate Policy Engagement Network

Professor Iain Black - Professor of Practice in the Department of Marketing and who leads the business school's sustainability strategy - has been asked to join the Scottish Government’s Climate Policy Engagement Network for a three-year term.  In the first instance this network will support the development of the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan and the Just Transition Plan.

This work follows Professor Black’s membership of the Scottish Government’s ground breaking ‘Global footprint working group’ set up to examine Scotland’s international environmental impact. 

Countries (and organisations) typically report their environmental impact based only on their domestic production and consumption and ignore (or choose not to measure) their international footprint which includes the damage associated with goods and services imported from overseas.  As such they significantly underestimate the full extent of the environmental damage their economies create.  The analysis, conducted by the Global Footprint Network sought to overcome the data and methodological difficulties inherent in understanding these international impacts with the intention of guiding governmental policy.

Published: 6 April 2023