9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Building a New Ecosystem for Sustainable Economy
| Partners | Global Compact Network Korea |
| Description | As societal challenges and relationships between stakeholders become more complex, it is recognized that companies and other organizations need to build sustainable business ecosystems to create systematic and longer-term strategies. Korean companies have started to form this business ecosystem to foster innovation for social challenges and create systematic impact. This session will present and discuss collective action of Korean companies in support of the MDGs; case stories of social enterprises to create employment and realize sustainable development; a case story of CSV (Creating Shared Value) in building an inclusive business ecosystem for the health of the community; a case Story of innovative technology contributing to corporate sustainability; and the 5W (World, Weather, Water, Wisdom, Welfare) Project, which aims to address key challenges with a particular focus on weather (global warming) and water shortage through indigenous wisdom and traditional knowledge for the welfare of the people in the world. |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Corporate Respect and Support for Human Rights: A Key
Foundation for Sustainability
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | The Global Compact’s Human Rights Principles call on business to respect and support human rights as an essential component of corporate sustainability, business’ contribution to sustainable development. The corporate responsibility to respect human rights has come into greater focus in recent years, especially the UN Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (June 2011). Avoiding any infringement of the human rights of others and addressing any adverse human rights impacts with which the business is involved, is the minimum required of all businesses everywhere, and an important precondition for sustainable development. To achieve sustainable development, all societal actors have a role to play, thus, in addition to respecting human rights, the Global Compact calls on businesses to take additional voluntary action to support or advance human rights. Such actions may be through core business activities, strategic social investments and philanthropy, advocacy and public policy engagement, and working in partnership and other collective action. With a mix of presentations, discussions and interactive exercises, participants in this session will share and explore concrete ways to ensure that corporate sustainability policies, processes, initiatives and commitments are grounded in human rights for maximum positive impact, especially for women, children, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Double Global Rate of Improvement in Energy Efficiency to
Achieve Sustainable Energy for All
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | In line with the Secretary-General s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and in cooperation with Caring for Climate, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that would help dramatically increase energy efficiency by 2030. Presentations by companies will highlight examples of innovative technologies, products and services that increase operational efficiencies, reduce resources consumption and increase competitiveness. Discussions with participants will focus on measures that would encourage the private sector to drive investment in energy efficiency measures. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Enterprise 2020: Multi-stakeholder Planning in Ukraine
| Partners | Global Compact Network Ukraine |
| Description | Sustainable development in Ukraine is the concept widely discussed within civil society organizations, businesses and academia. However, there is no national sustainability strategy and even economic strategies tend to focus on short term or medium-term goals. Realizing the social and environmental challenges as well as opportunities for embracing those, the Ukrainian business community together with civil society organizations launched a unique multi-stakeholder process of defining a vision for the enterprise of the future (with a 2020 target). The process identified acute challenges to Ukraine s social and economic development, risks for business and ways in which companies can engage to turn these risks and challenges into opportunities. The project grew in scale over time and included all major stakeholders. The example of Enterprise 2020 or, in other words, of the Future we Want exercise is a demonstration of a bottom-up approach to garnering political will to cooperate on sustainable development challenges. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Innovation & Collaboration for Food Security and
Sustainable Agriculture
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | This introduction to the Agriculture and Food thematic track of the Forum will feature a discussion on how the private sector, in collaboration with other actors, can make a significant contribution to food security and sustainable agriculture. The session will feature companies in the food, agriculture and beverage sectors that implement leading-edge practices, as well as key actors that work in close collaboration with the private sector to advance food security and sustainable agriculture. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Partnering in Innovation for Sustainable Development
| Partners | Global Compact Network Italy |
| Description | The workshop will focus on process innovations, product innovations, organisational innovations and market innovations. The session will showcase successful projects implemented by Italian companies operating in a global context. Recommendations to governments on how to best facilitate these efforts will be made. |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Profits and Opportunities at the Base of the
Pyramid
| Partners | Business Call to Action |
| Description | The private sector is an essential partner in advancing sustainable development and meeting the needs of the poor. Many companies operating in the developing world are going beyond traditional models of philanthropy, social investment and CSR to create inclusive business models that engage low-income populations as consumers, producers, suppliers, and distributors of goods and services, and which have the potential to deliver both commercial and social returns. This workshop will demonstrate how inclusive business supports sustainable development, creating both profits and opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Realizing the Value of Responsible Investment
| Partners | Global Compact, PRI |
| Description | This high-level plenary session will showcase progress made in incorporating sustainability in mainstream investments and how the emergence of responsible owners is driving corporate sustainability. The session will also address the long-term logic of responsible investment and the inter-locking role of investors, companies and policy makers in creating more sustainable capital markets. |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Sustainable Cities: Global Challenges, Local
Solutions
| Partners | Global Compact Cities Programme |
| Description | This session will focus on the power of collaboration between local government, business and civil society as a fundamental platform for tackling complex urban issues and mobilizing solutions across all domains of sustainability. Innovative models will be explored from a range of cities, including Porto Alegre, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Bogota and Rio de Janeiro, as well as a state-wide approach in Brazilian Paran��. All will highlight solutions that can be applied to or adapted for cities and regions facing similar issues. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Sustainable Water Use in Textile Production: A Case for
Cooperation
| Partners | Government of Sweden |
| Description | Over the last years, private-sector actors have begun to consider water scarcity as an increasing risk to investments and operations. A growing number of companies acknowledge the importance of proactively developing more sustainable water use patterns to avoid future economic losses due to diminishing and more polluted water resources and tougher legislation. The Sweden Textile Water Initiative (STWI) sets an interesting example of cooperation between competing businesses in the environmental field. The objective is to develop guidelines for sustainable water use, applying an upstream perspective . This session will present the outcome of the Sweden Textile Water Initiative and highlight the main lessons learned from the initial phase. Other companies, as well as decision makers, scientists and environmental NGOs will be invited to discuss the challenges and possibilities for corporations to take a proactive role in contributing to water-efficient solutions. |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: The Case for Corporate Sustainability Management and
Reporting in Developing Markets
| Partners | Government of Switzerland, GRI, Global Compact |
| Description | As developing markets increasingly attract foreign companies and investors, pressure is building on local businesses to manage risks and opportunities associated with Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti-corruption issues. This session will explore corporate sustainability management and reporting as a tool to improve sustainability performance, to boost local competitiveness, access to international markets and help attract foreign capital. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: A Green Economy through Sustainability Reporting: On
Report or Explain and G4
| Partners | GRI |
| Description | How does sustainability reporting link to the Green Economy? How can the outcomes of Rio+20 help ensure that sustainability reporting becomes standard practice globally, triggering greater transparency and accountability of companies worldwide? And how can governments, civil society and business benefit from sustainability reporting? The event will answer these questions from various perspectives, focusing on the new generation of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines G4 and the ‘report or explain’ approach to sustainability reporting regulation. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Board Adoption and Oversight of Sustainability
| Partners | Global Compact, PRI |
| Description | Board adoption and oversight is imperative for exceptional sustainability performance. This session will address the important role of the board of directors in defining sustainability priorities for a company and setting and achieving sustainability goals. Topics addressed will include recruitment of Directors with diverse perspectives, board education on sustainability, and the importance of rewarding sustainability through remuneration schemes. The work and outcomes of the Global Compact LEAD-PRI Taskforce on Incorporating Sustainability into Executive Remuneration, will be featured with the launch of guiding principles to link sustainability to incentive schemes. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Building a Global Union for Sustainability: The Role of
Business, Industry and NGOs
| Partners | Instituto Ethos |
| Description | The session will discuss the objectives of the Global Union for Sustainability, the Global Union for Sustainability Principles and modalities for monitoring the Rio+20 outcomes. During the session, organizers will invite participants who identify with the draft Global Union for Sustainability principles to support and commit to the principles. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Double Share of Renewable Energy in the Global Energy Mix
to Achieve Sustainable Energy for All’
| Partners | Global Compact, UNEP |
| Description | In line with the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and in cooperation with Caring for Climate, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that would help double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. Presentations and a panel discussion will highlight the current state of renewable energy, expected growth, and foreseeable challenges. These topics will be addressed in light of specific sectors and innovative technologies within the renewable energy space. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Global Compact Network Egypt Members Best Practices
| Partners | Global Compact Network Egypt |
| Description | In this session sustainability initiatives and projects implemented by local network members will be featured. Each case study focuses on the implementation of one of the issue areas of the Global Compact. During the session company representatives will present a case study and will speak to the evolution of sustainability approaches in their companies since they joined the Global Compact. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Making Sustainability Standards Work for those Most in
Need
| Partners | Government of Switzerland |
| Description | The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) will launch its first global report that looks at what standards and certifications are actually achieving. Every month, billions of dollars of products are traded with certifications that are perceived as a proxy for being sustainable. As the market value and importance of these voluntary sustainability standards grows, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that those most in need, namely the rural poor across the developing world, are positively impacted by the concurrent market transition towards sustainability . The panel session will provide a summary overview of the finding of the latest impact research on private voluntary standards as well as highlights of what policy makers and the private sector are doing to ensure that the rural poor can benefit from the opportunity presented by growing markets for sustainable products. The objective of the panel is to build support and collaboration for the launch of a global, shared approach to the impact assessment and monitoring of sustainability standards through the adoption of common indicators and reporting standards using the COSA framework. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: The Business and Industry Response to the Sustainability
Challenge: Impacts and Opportunities
| Partners | Global Compact Network Australia |
| Description | The session will focus on how the sustainability challenge is being met within the context of the business and industry response and its alignment with developing regulatory and reporting frameworks. The session will provide the Australian perspective, featuring case studies from small and large business signatories and an overview of the sustainability and climate change legal framework that will impact on the Australian economy and environment after 1 July 2012. What is business and industry already doing to meet the sustainability challenge and what challenges remain to be confronted, how are they reporting on it and what are the implications for Local Networks and other CSR and citizenship initiatives? What will be the role of social investment? |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Unlocking Private Investment in Clean Energy: The Role of
SMEs in the Developing World
| Partners | IADB, AFD |
| Description | This session will discuss solutions to the challenges facing corporations, financial institutions, investors, project developers and entrepreneurs in entering the low-carbon business space in emerging and developing countries; with a specific focus on the role of small and medium-sized enterprises. |
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11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Water Conservation Initiatives across Sectors
| Partners | Global Compact Network Indonesia |
| Description | The session will cover the business contribution to addressing water scarcity in Indonesia and other countries. The condition of the global water crisis will be presented while stressing the importance of global action for water conservation. The Indonesia Water Mandate Working Group will be introduced as well as the collaborative actions it has implemented during 2011-2012 to address water issues. Additionally, best practices from individual water conservation initiatives by Indonesian corporations, global corporations operating in Indonesia, NGOs and other organizations will be presented. |
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12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: 10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working
Group (Invitation Only)
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only. |
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Action towards Sustainable Livestock Sector Development
| Partners | FAO |
| Description | The Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development (GAA) is built on the notion that demand growth for livestock products will likely continue for decades as incomes and human population continue to grow. Such demand growth will need to be accommodated within the context of a finite and sometimes dwindling natural resource base, and will be faced with the need to respond to climate change, both through adaptation and mitigation. For this to happen, GAA proposes a change of practices through policy and institutional change, research and development, capacity building and accompanying investments that will lead to efficiency gains in natural resource use and reduced emission intensity, while providing social, economic and health benefits. A GAA is open to all stakeholders who agree with its objectives, its focus areas and the types of action, including information sharing, the development of metrics, resource assessments, technology exchange, capacity building, policy analyses and development, and communication and outreach. Stakeholders agree that the comparative advantage of a GAA lies in the strengthened partnership, interaction, and consensus actions that prevent duplication of effort and that increase its influence on research and development agendas |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Better Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | Smallholder farmers comprise a large portion of those people living in poverty throughout the world. To bring them out of poverty, farmers need higher quality crop production and better access to markets. This session will focus on what the private sector is doing to source crops from small farmers and what civil society, government and business are doing collectively to prepare smallholders for the demands of the market. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Business Contribution towards the National Goal for a
Low-Carbon Economy
| Partners | Global Compact Network Costa Rica |
| Description | This session will highlight how business has organized in Costa Rica to contribute to the National Carbon Neutral goal for 2021. The Eco Efficiency Work Group, a public-private partnership, provides companies with ongoing advice and tools to evaluate environmental impacts and measure ROI of reduction, mitigation and compensation efforts. The initiative was launched in November 2011 and currently includes 44 companies. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Business Engagement with Indigenous Peoples
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | This session will explore the role of corporate respect and support for indigenous peoples’ rights in corporate sustainability – business’ main contribution to sustainable development. What are the challenges and what are the opportunities? The Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will set the scene, highlighting indigenous peoples’ expectations of business, and will be followed by examples of how companies are responding. Companies participating in the Global Compact LEAD-Human Rights Taskforce will present their approach and best practices. The Taskforce will also share findings from its research and mapping of international standards on business engagement with indigenous peoples and seek further input with a view to develop a more coherent and concrete vision of business’ role in the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Collaboration and Innovation to Address Urban
Poverty
| Partners | Global Compact Cities Programme, World Vision |
| Description | This session tackles the challenge of urban poverty, one of the most pressing issues of this century. It draws on diverse perspectives and successful initiatives of: World Vision, a leading international development agency, and their work in La Paz, Bolivia; the Chocolat��o Sustainability Network in slum redevelopment in Porto Alegre, Brazil ; and the Mega-Cities strategy and longitudinal study of Rio’s favelas by Dr. Janice Perlman. The session will examine cross-sectoral strategies and the role of business sector engagement. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Communicating ESG Value Drivers at the Investor-Company
Interface
| Partners | Global Compact, PRI |
| Description | This session will bring together leading companies and investors to explore good practices and innovations in communicating environmental,social and governance (ESG) value drivers to financial markets – beyond reporting. The session will also feature the initial results of the ESG Investor Briefing project, a joint initiative of the Global Compact and the PRI to pilot a series of high-level investor calls similar to quarterly earnings calls. The pilot calls will serve as a laboratory to explore best practices in integrating ESG in mainstream investor communications. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Corporate Water Stewardship & Innovative Partnerships:
An Imperative for Improved Water Resource Mgt
| Partners | Alliance for Water Stewardship, Global Compact |
| Description | Social and environmental standards and certifications have proved to be successful incentives for business to adopt more sustainable practices. Despite this, scaling up social and environmental standards has proved challenging; their impacts remain experienced mainly at a farm or facility level. By emphasizing engagement beyond the fence line the AWS s International Water Stewardship Standard aims to achieve watershed-level impacts. The approach fits well with tools being developed by the CEO Water Mandate to promote common approaches and collective action, including Water Disclosure Guidelines and the Water Action Hub. This session will explore ways in which the AWS Standard, CEO Water Mandate tools and other initiatives can go beyond their perceived scope (certification and business engagement) and help to stimulate the innovative and cross-sectoral partnerships that are needed to achieve watershed-level sustainability. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Ensure Universal Access to Modern Energy Services to
Achieve Sustainable Energy for All
| Partners | Global Compact, UNDP |
| Description | In line with the Secretary-General s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that will help achieve universal energy access for all by 2030. Presentations and a panel discussion will highlight the innovative resources, technologies, financing, and business models available to achieve energy access for all with a focus on public-private and private-private partnership opportunities. A roundtable session will follow on the topics of: policy barriers and challenges, financing evolution, market conditions and enabling factors, and societal behavioral change. |
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2:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Foundations for Sustainability Leadership: Responsible
Management and Leadership Education
| Partners | Global Compact, PRME |
| Description | Responsible management and leadership education has a crucial role in enabling leaders to embrace the challenges involved in creating a sustainable and equitable world for the future we want. This interactive session will be orchestrated using the collaboratory concept introduced in the Agenda for Management Education for the World by the collaborative project 50+20. Three collaboratories will be built around key issues developed by working groups of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative of the UN Global Compact: Anti-Corruption; Gender equality; and Poverty reduction through business actions. The session aims at strengthening collaboration between academia and business and will work hands-on to develop pragmatic solutions for companies and academia on how to work together on key issues of the UN Global Compact. Corporate participants will have the opportunity to meet with leading management educators and researchers. The collaboratory concept consists of a facilitated discussion around an issue of global relevance of members of a community (business representatives, academics and researchers, students, and thought leaders across disciplines) who meet on equal terms in order to develop a viable solution. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Foundations of Social Investment
| Partners | Global Compact, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat |
| Description | The United Nations Global Compact s Principles for Social Investment (PSI) promote contributions that are purposeful, accountable, respectful and ethical. By distilling best-practices into a set of voluntary principles that guide the ongoing practice of social investment by organizations, the PSI seek to increase the positive impact and scalability of such contributions for the advancement of societies. This session provides an introduction to the PSI and the work of the Principles for Social Investment Secretariat, including the Social Investment Ambassadors and Pioneers programs. The session will also feature the presentation of a new report by the Global Compact LEAD task force on strategic social investment and philanthropy which identifies common challenges and good practices in these areas. Global business representatives will discuss the report and its findings. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Green Chemistry
| Partners | UNIDO |
| Description | The use of Green Chemistry can lead to advancements in innovation, spur economic development, reduce risks to human health and the environment, and deliver return on investment. This seminar will educate, promote and advance the application of green chemistry for sustainable production and consumption and protection of human health and the environment. Speakers will highlight current applications of green chemistry, success stories, and new challenges. Three messages of the seminar are intended to be 1) Educate the current and next generation of business leaders on the fiscal and social value of green chemistry; 2) Better organize an international network to advance science and promote green chemistry applications in business; 3) Quantify and demonstrate the value of green chemistry in the business supply chain, in protecting human health, expanding jobs and reducing or eliminating threats to the environment. |
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2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Launch of the Natural Capital Declaration: Perspectives
from Senior Executives
| Partners | UNEP-FI |
| Description | The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) represents a pioneering effort by leading financial institutions to commit to work towards integrating natural capital considerations in financial products and services. The declaration also calls upon governments to create frameworks that incentivize the private sector – including the financial sector – to operate responsibly regarding the sustainable use of natural capital. The event will provide an overview of all financial institutions that have endorsed the Natural Capital Declaration through CEO sign-off. Participants also learn first-hand from senior executives of an endorsing bank, investor and insurance firm about the underlying motivations to sign the NCD and how it adds to the conference theme of working towards a green economy. This event, organized by UNEP FI, the Global Canopy Programme, and the Fundacao Getulio Vargas – Centre for Sustainability (FGV-GVces). |
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2:00 PM – 5:30 PM: The Sustainable Supply Chain: Scaling-up the Impacts of
Sustainability Practice
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | Managing the social, environmental and economic impacts of supply chains is a key component for sustainable development, and a means for businesses to scale up their sustainability practices. As supply chains have grown in scale and complexity, so have the challenges to managing their sustainability impacts. However, there are also significant opportunities for companies to promote human rights, improve labour conditions, protect the environment and support ethical business conduct. The first segment of this session will showcase leading practices across a variety of sustainable supply chain issues, and look at how these relate to the Rio+20 agenda. The second segment will see the launch of the United Nations Global Compact Quick Self-Assessment & Learning Tool, developed in collaboration with BSR and Maplecroft. The launch will be followed by a BSR-lead workshop session on the Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, which will discuss how supply chain practices are implemented and will identify challenges and solutions supply chain managers may face following Rio+20. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Corporate Action on Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Services
| Partners | Global Compact, IUCN |
| Description | This session will explore how companies can integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) conservation into their overall corporate sustainability strategies by showcasing best practices and innovative solutions. The main objective of the session is to introduce the Framework for Corporate Action on BES as a way for companies to develop, implement and disclose BES policies and practices in order to address risks, manage impacts, seize opportunities and contribute to social targets. The session will also focus on delivering public policy recommendations to further mainstream BES conservation within the private sector. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Delivering a Programme on Sustainable Consumption and
Production in Food and Agriculture
| Partners | UNEP, FAO |
| Description | The event will present the joint FAO/UNEP programme for Sustainable Food Systems, with the support of the Swiss Government. The Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFSP) aims to improve resource use efficiency and reduce the pollution intensity of food systems at all points from production to consumption, while at the same time addressing issues of food and nutrition security. It is supported by the Sustainable Food Systems Task Force on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which is presently made up of 14 national governments, five UN agencies and programmes, eight civil society organizations, and three international business organizations representing 325 firms. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Financing Sustainable Energy for All
| Partners | Global Compact, PRI |
| Description | Meeting the global clean energy challenge requires unprecedented collaboration between the finance sector and governments. This session will explore how banks, insurance companies, pension funds, energy utilities and governments can work together to finance sustainable energy. The session will highlight practical examples of what has already been financed, and discuss ways of mitigating risk to stimulate further financing. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Global Governance for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
| Partners | FAO |
| Description | This event will convene representatives of FAO and, regional organizations and companies to share their views on strategies and priorities for reinforcing global governance in support of sustainable food and agriculture systems. This session will give an opportunity for the participating organizations and companies to profile flagship initiatives, action agendas, and cooperation mechanisms. This session will focus on global governance, the role of FAO, how governance arrangements can be reformed to better allow the private sector to invest into sustainable production systems and value chains. The new voluntary guidelines initiatives will be discussed as well as private sector participation to the Committee on World Food Security. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Launch of Green Industry Platform
| Partners | UNIDO |
| Description | Green Industry unlocks development opportunities as enterprises improve their resource productivity and environmental performance (greening of industries) and establish new operations that deliver environmental goods and services (creating green industries). The Green Industry Initiative is an initiative of UNIDO aimed at mainstreaming environmental, climate and social considerations into the operations of enterprises around the world. Uniting with the private sector, civil society and governments to support greening of the industrial sector as the main driver of green growth and a global transition to a green economy, UNIDO will launch the Green Industry Platform. This global multi-stakeholder platform aims to (i) mobilize governments, business and research institutions on a global scale to commit to develop a strategy to “green industry” and “create green industries”, (ii) strengthen, through the example of successful practices, the green industry global policy agenda in order to contribute to an appropriate intergovernmental framework, (iii) serve as a global forum and develop an Action Agenda for Green Industry. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: One Planet Living: Sustainable Communities and Business
from the UK to China
| Partners | BioRegional Development Group |
| Description | One Planet Living is a vision of a sustainable world in which people everywhere can enjoy a high quality of life, while living within the productive capacity of the planet. It is a sustainability framework which takes a people-centred approach based on equity, ecological and carbon footprints, clean production and ten principles for achieving sustainability. This session will introduce participants to the One Planet Living approach and framework, showcasing how it has been implemented in real projects around the world to achieve sustainability in urban areas. Participants will also be introduced to the newly launched One Planet Open Source online learning platform and other available toolkits for implementing the sustainability framework. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: The Finance and Economics of Sustainable Development in
Southern Africa
| Partners | Global Compact Network South Africa |
| Description | The private sector in Southern Africa recognize that Green Economy initiatives will create new opportunities for enterprise development, job creation and the renewal of commercial and residential environments. In particular it is understood that green innovation will play a part in the overall region’s sustainable development. But the private sector are faced with a lack of national and regional frameworks, government policies, and innovative ‘green’ products and services to drive green economy and green jobs initiatives at a faster pace. This session will provide an overview of approaches being taken throughout Southern Africa and will explore synergies and areas for regional cooperation in order to reach scale. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: The Reconceptualization of Business
| Partners | Global Compact, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat, Regional Centre for the Global Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Description | This session will mark the launch of a Global Compact / Principles for Social Investment Secretariat discussion paper, The Reconceptualization of Business , which offers an introduction to the various organizational models through which business contributes to sustainable community development. An international business panel will discuss examples of the ways in which businesses are reorganizing business practices to achieve commercial and broader social development objectives. This session is a joint effort between the Global Compact Office, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat and the Latin American Regional Global Compact Support Center. |
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4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Towards a Green and Resilient Economy: Addressing the
Climate-Water Nexus
| Partners | Global Compact, UNEP |
| Description | This session will explore how companies can integrate and build effective resilience measures into their business strategies, operations and throughout the value chain. Caring for Climate and CEO Water Mandate companies will offer perspectives on addressing the climate-water nexus and types of government action necessary to increase business engagement and investment in adaptation. Discussions will inform and advance activities, processes, commitments and partnerships that define corporate leadership in adaptation and contribute to building green and climate resilient economies. |
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5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: 10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working
Group (Invitation Only)
| Partners | Global Compact |
| Description | The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation o |
| Partners | UNIDO, UNEP |
| Description | The evening reception will celebrate the launch of the Green Industry Platform as well as the 20-year anniversary of the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) programme. Both initiatives are jointly organised by UNIDO and UNEP. |
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Conscious Consumption, Sustainable Business (Sponsor
Session)
| Partners | Grupo P��o de A����car |
| Description | This workshop convened with Instituto Akatu – will gather private enterprises, civil society and governments, aiming at publicly launching 10 steps to build more sustainable consumption and production modes. Based on this reference, participants will co-create more sustainable business models, besides identifying the conditions necessary for their implementation, taking into account changes in consumer s behavior, public policies and civil society actions necessary to support business materialization. |
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Mechanisms for Valuating Biodiversity: Challenges and
Proposals
| Partners | Banco Santander |
| Description | Biodiversity loss and the decline in ecosystem services affect society (in general) and business. All business sectors impact and depend on biodiversity, which represent risks and opportunities. The integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into core business can create significant added value for companies by reducing costs, developing low-impact technologies and protecting brands. However, this integration represents a challenge for many companies: how can we reduce economic invisibility of nature and evaluate ecosystem costs and benefits? |
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: The Future of Health (Sponsor Session)
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