The UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED) is an independent, not-for-profit foundation. It was established in 1984 by a group of far-sighted leaders from the business, government and scientific communities. Responding to the recommendations of the UN World Conservation Strategy, the Centre was originally set up to support, co-ordinate and monitor implementation of the Conservation and Development Programme for the UK.
Its particular remit was to provide an evidence base for demonstrating how environmental protection and economic development priorities could be reconciled and also for promoting the central role of the business sector in environmental improvement. It thus became an early advocate of what was to become known as sustainable development.
