First Minister’s Environmental Council

Overview

The main purpose of the First Minister’s Environment Council is to advise the government on international best practice and keep us at the forefront of tackling the climate emergency and ecological decline.

The council will be co-chaired by the First Minister and Professor Sir Ian Boyd, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. They will meet to discuss a range of environmental issues, such as biodiversity, marine resources, waste, and the nature-based aspects of climate change and the Just Transition.

Members

• Professor Sir Ian L Boyd FRSB FRSE FRS (Co-Chair), University of St Andrews, President-elect of the Royal Society of Biology
• Professor Ian Bateman OBE, US-NAS, FBA, FRSA, FRSB, Director of Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute, University of Exeter Business School
• Gordon Buchanan MBE, award-winning wildlife camera-man and presenter
• Revati Campbell, Member of the First Minister's National Advisory Council on Women and Girls, RSA Young People’s Economic Security Advisory Group and University of Glasgow
• Professor Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University, USA Faculty Director – The Natural Capital Project
• Professor Sandra Diaz, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
• Susan Davies FRSB, Chief Executive, Scottish Seabird Centre
• Erin Fowler, University of Glasgow
• Dame Ellen MacArthur, Founder and Chair of Trustees Ellen MacArthur Foundation            
• Professor Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford
• Dr Ece Özdemiroğlu, founding director of eftec (economics for the environment consultancy)
• Dr Dilys Roe, Principal Researcher and Team Leader (Biodiversity) and Chair, IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
• Dame Julia Slingo FRS, Chief Scientist of the UK Met Office (2009 -2016)
• Professor Pete Smith FRS, FRSE, FNA, FEurASc, FI Soil Sci., FRSB, Professor of Soils and Global Change, University of Aberdeen    

Documents

• First Minister’s Environmental Council minutes: December 2022
• First Minister's Environmental Council minutes: June 2022