Chris Tuppen,
Founder and Senior Partner
Chris Tuppen has been
involved in sustainability for over twenty years. He runs Advancing
Sustainability LLP and is an Honorary Professor at Keele University. He was
previously BT’s Chief Sustainability Officer.
Chris joined BT laboratories in 1979 after
completion of his BSc and PhD in chemistry at Bristol University. He spent 12
years in semiconductor research before becoming BT's first environment manager
in 1991. In that role his responsibilities included the co-ordination of
environmental policy for the BT group, communicating progress to internal and
external audiences and managing an environmental site auditing programme.
He was directly responsible for BT's
Environmental Performance Reports, winning the 1992, 1993 and 1997 Chartered
Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) awards for corporate environmental
reporting, and also winning the European Reporting Award in 1997. In 1999 he
was also closely involved in producing BT's first Social Report and in 2001 led
the team that produced the company's first full sustainability report which has
won ACCA sustainability reporting awards in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008.
He has authored over 50 published papers, is a
fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Institute of Physics.
He currently sits on the BBC
Sustainability Advisory Group, the NHS Sustainable Development National Advisory Group
and the Boards of the Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability project,
the Aldersgate Group and the New Anglia LEP Green Economy Pathfinder. He established and chaired the Global e- Sustainability
Initiative in association with UNEP and ITU, sat on the Council of
AccountAbility, the Boards of CSR Europe and Business for Social
Responsibility, and the Social and Environmental Committee of the ACCA. He was
co-chair of the Global Reporting Initiative measurement working group, was a
member of the UK ESRC Global Environmental Change Committee, sat on the
executive board of ICER (Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling),
the Steering Group of the London City Sustainable City Forum, was a member of
the Environment Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, chaired the ETNO
(European Telecommunications Network Operators Association) working group on
the environment and was project manager of a EURESCOM (European Institute for
Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications) major international
programme investigating sustainable development and the telecommunications
industry. He has also been an invited expert advisor to ACBE (Advisory
Committee on Business and the Environment), the European Commission and OECD on
the links between telecommunications and sustainable development.
In November 1998 he was presented
with the first Recognition for Achievement given by ETNO, the European
Telecommunication Network Operators Association, for ‘his outstanding and
innovative contribution towards the creation and shaping of the Association's
environmental activities.’
In 2007 he brought GeSI, the Climate
Group and McKinsey together to produce the world’s most in depth study of the
relationship between the ICT industry and climate change. He was a co-editor of
the final report which was published in summer 2008. Entitled SMART2020, the
report has been influential in influencing public policy and business activity
world-wide.
He has also been a member of Nike's
report Review Committee.
In January 2008 he was named by a
special Guardian newspaper panel of prominent environmental figures as one of
the 50 people who could save the planet from climatic disaster.
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