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Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum Program for June 18

by Richard Matthews
June 18, 2012
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Accelerating Green Growth through Public-Private
Partnerships

Partners 3GF, Global Compact
Description Existing PPP’s for green growth will explore the
role PPP’s can play in reducing information, policy and behavioral barriers to
scaling green growth investment. Innovations and best practices will be shared
as well as lessons learned..
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

9:00 AM  –  10:30 AM:  Activities and Challenges to Promote Innovation for
Sustainable Development

Partners Global Compact Network Japan
Description This session will gather executives from leading
Japanese businesses to discuss innovative approaches that their companies are
taking to advance sustainable practices and to contribute to addressing global
sustainable development challenges. Representing Finance, Food and ICT sectors,
each presenter will highlight forward-looking approaches and solutions to
ensuring a positive impact of their strategies and operations. The emerging
practices highlighted will initiate a conversation among the chief executives
regarding the types of collaborative actions needed in Japan to build a better,
more sustainable society throughout the region.
Themes

9:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Business Leadership and the Role of Cooperation in
Sustainable Development

Partners Global Compact Network Brazil
Description The annual event of the Global Compact Network
Brazil will gather business leaders, public authorities and government
representatives. Recognizing that sustainability leaders value cooperation –
both in business management and in advancing the sustainable development agenda
– making their companies more competitive and profitable, and at the same time
preserving resources and enhancing human development, the event will address the
key role played by business in influencing consumption patterns towards a more
sustainable future.
Themes

9:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  CEOs and NGOs Views on Innovation for
Sustainability

Partners Global Compact Network France
Description The Chairmen/CEOs of GDF SUEZ, SCHNEIDER Electric
and TOTAL will debate these strategic issues with three top representatives of
civil society. They will share experiences, practices and present innovations in
the areas of shareholder dialog and partnership with NGOs and social
entrepreneurs. The conditions and the innovations required to implement shared
value creation will be discussed. After three joint presentations, CEOs and NGOs
will answer questions from the audience. This session is organized as a dynamic
workshop on social dialogue and how to build it up.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

9:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Changing the World through Fashion

Partners Global Compact Nordic Network
Description Building on the world’s largest event on
sustainable fashion held in Copenhagen on 3 May 2012 (The Copenhagen Fashion
Summit) this session will explore the results of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit
and discuss how policy-recommendations from the Nordic Initiative Clean and
Ethical (NICE) Consumer project and The NICE Code of Conduct and Manual for the
Fashion and Textile Industry will influence the global industry. Furthermore,
the session includes insights from sustainable fashion leaders and concrete
cases from luxury and high-street fashion, the designer, the solution provider
and the producer.
Themes

9:00 AM  –  10:30 AM:  Cities at the Heart of the Future We Want

Partners UNITAR
Description This panel will highlight cities growing interest
to initiate dialogue with business sectors in view of elaborating frameworks
that would provide enabling environments conducive to sustainability and social
responsibility. This session will present contributions from the City of
Antwerp, host of the world 2nd largest petrochemical port and the world diamond
centre; the City of Atlanta, host of the world largest airport; the City of
Guayaqil and Veolia Environment.
Themes

9:00 AM  –  10:30 AM:  Enabling Achievement of Water Sustainability Objectives:
Collective Action & the Water Action Hub

Partners Global Compact
Description The case for collective action is built on the
premise that water-related risks are shared between business, government,
communities, and the environment, and that equitable processes through which all
affected parties can come together and contribute to mitigating these shared
risks is a powerful tool for combating this century’s emerging water issues.
This premise leads directly to a “shared-risk, shared action model” whereby
common problems that pose risks to businesses, governments, civil society can
best be addressed through joint efforts that generate common understanding,
strategies, and solutions – essentially “shared value.”  This session will
profile the CEO Water Mandate’s Water Action Hub as an enabling platform to help
companies understand their options for collaborating with others on water
issues, and who they can work with in a particular geography to address shared
risk. The session will orient around a facilitated multi-stakeholder discussion
of the merits and challenges of water-related collective action and partnerships
more generally.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

9:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Enabling Green and Inclusive Markets: A Case for Public
Private Collaboration

Partners DCED, Global Compact
Description The session will give policy makers and the
private sector a unique opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art approaches in
facilitating green and inclusive businesses through an improved enabling
environment. Participants will have the opportunity not only to get inspiration
from thought-leading practitioners, researchers and policymakers but also to get
a glimpse on first-hand-experience from promising approaches to public-private
collaboration. Results from a study on policy measures to create synergies in
promoting green growth and inclusive businesses will be presented during the
session .
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes


9:00 AM  –  10:30 AM:  From Responsibility to Investment: Accelerating Social
Enterprise 

Partners SK
Description With the launch of the Framework for Action for
Impact Investment and Social Entrepreneurship, an opportunity has been prepared
to stimulate thinking for promoting social entrepreneurship from the
corporation’s point of view. This session aims to deepen the discussion on how a
corporation could engage with social enterprises. Panellists will showcase their
experiences in promoting social enterprises in the global context and will
stimulate thinking on the role of corporations in nurturing the eco-system and
building the infrastructure for social enterprises. Panel discussion followed by
floor interaction will conclude with suggestions for expediting corporate social
participation by transforming its approach from responsibility towards
investment.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

9:00 AM  –  10:30 AM:  Partnerships for Globally Sustainable
Agriculture

Partners Global Compact Local Network Malaysia
Description The panel will present a key partnership
initiative that has been developed as a basis for sustainable agriculture:
Responsible Sourcing Guidelines (RSGs) deliver supply-chain visibility to buyers
based on reputational strengths of companies involved and precise mapping of
sources and logistics between producers and markets. This is a complimentary
approach to the certification-based systems that have proven successful for
major transnational companies, but are too costly for smallholders and other
players that form the bulk of production systems. The panel invites comments
from two governments with significant domestic as well as export-driven
agricultural industries. The session learning is rounded off with a view from a
key UN agency on how RSGs, based on both trust and evidence, are a sound basis
for public-private partnerships in food production.
Themes

9:00 AM  –  3:30 PM:  Sustainable Stock Exchanges 2012 Global Dialogue

Partners Global Compact, UNCTAD, PRI, UNEP-FI
Description This full-day event will explore how stock
exchanges can work together with investors, regulators and companies to enhance
corporate performance and transparency on ESG (environmental, social and
corporate governance) issues. Building on previous SSE dialogues in New York
(2009) and Xiamen, China (2010), this event will focus on the role of the
world’s exchanges in encouraging responsible, long-term investment and creating
sustainable financial markets. For more information on the SSE initiative,
please visit www.SSEinitiative.org.
Materials
  • Agenda
Theme

9:00 AM  –  12:30 PM: Tourism for Tomorrow’s Green Economy/Sustainable Tourism

Partners World Travel and Tourism Council, Global Compact
Network Sri Lanka, Global Compact Network Malaysia
Description The focus of this session will be to share travel
and tourism perspectives of sustainability at all levels. Key challenges and
progress that has been made will be presented as well as the steps that need to
be taken by the industry as a whole. The key themes to be discussed will include
the business case for sustainability, innovation, community engagement,
collaboration, accountability and responsibility. In addition, local and
regional perspectives on sustainable tourism will be shared, and examples of
policy initiatives that have an impact on the environmental social and economic
aspects of sustainability will be provided.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

11:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Driving Inclusive and Green Growth in Agriculture through
Public-Private Collaboration Platforms

Partners Global Compact, Government of Denmark,
UNDP
Description This plenary session will focus on the need for
enhanced and more systematic public-private collaboration for sustainable
agriculture. It will examine how country level public-private collaborative
platforms can catalyze change in terms of ensuring empowerment and inclusion as
well as improving sustainability and competitiveness in key value chains. The
discussion will draw on country level public-private platforms and will present
how these efforts could be scaled up, with the aim of mobilizing broad support
and commitments.
Themes


11:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Leadership for a Clean Revolution

Partners The Climate Group
Description Speakers will review the role of leadership on
the transition to a low-carbon economy, including examples of successful
leadership today, analysing the drivers of this leadership and reviewing the
characteristics of leading organisations. The event will further discuss the
mission and objectives of the Clean Revolution Campaign, a major initiative by
The Climate Group, the UN and the World Bank. At this event, a report will be
released on the state of leadership in the clean revolution.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

11:00 AM  –  12:30 PM: Sustainia: Building the World of Tomorrow

Partners Sustainia
Description Sustainia is a vision of what a sustainable world
would look like and be like to live in – based on facts, solutions and available
technologies. Sustainia builds on ready and available solutions and best
practices with a focus on the way we communicate, engage and collaborate in
order to transform our society. In this session, partners will lay out the model
behind Sustainia and will engage participants in a discussion on the
forward-looking actions necessary to make Sustainia a reality.
Themes


11:00 AM  –  12:30 PM: Understanding Effective Water-related Collective Action in
Practice

Partners Global Compact
Description Corporate water stewardship has emerged as a
response strategy to water risk. Stewardship helps companies identify and manage
water-related business risks, and through collective action, allows them to
contribute to and help enable more sustainable management of shared freshwater
resources. This session will explore the key aspects of successful collective
action in practice, focusing on companies’ experiences with on-the-ground
engagements and partnerships.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

11:00 AM  –  12:30 PM:  Women’s Empowerment Principles: Local Opportunities to
Turn Principles into Progress

Partners Global Compact, UN Women
Description This session will explore country-level
opportunities for UN Global Compact Local Networks, local UN Women offices and
National Committees, governments, civil society organizations, businesses and
others to take action to promote the gender dimension of corporate
sustainability. A key tool in this regard are the Women’s Empowerment
Principles, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women, offering
seven concrete steps business can take to empower women in the workplace,
marketplace and community.
Themes

12:30 PM  –  2:00 PM:  CEO Water Mandate Endorser Planning Meeting (Invitation
Only)

Partners Global Compact
Description The endorser-only meeting will provide an
opportunity for endorsers and the Mandate Secretariat to identify and digest key
learnings from the Forum’s sessions and discuss the development of the Mandate’s
ongoing projects (Water Action Hub, Guide to Aligning Business Practice with the
Human Right to Water and Sanitation, Water Disclosure Guidelines, etc.). It will
help plan administrative aspects of the initiative and determine immediate next
steps, such as its upcoming sessions at Stockholm World Water Week (August 2012)
and the date and location of its next annual multi-stakeholder working
conference. By invitation only.

12:30 PM  –  2:00 PM: Women and Sustainable Development: The Role of Business
(Invitation Only)

Partners Global Compact Network Brazil, UN Women
Description This high-level lunch with Michelle Bachelet,
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, will bring together
top executives to highlight how business can maximize its contribution to
sustainable development by placing women at the heart of all corporate
sustainability efforts and taking concrete steps to empower women in the
workplace, marketplace and community. The practical guidance offered by the
Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business, a joint initiative of
UN Women and The UN Global Compact, will be promoted. This lunch is by
invitation only and being co-hosted by the Brazilian Global Compact Network and
UN Women Brazil & Southern Cone. By invitation
only
.

2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM:  Energy+: An International Initiative to Leverage
Commercial Investments and Climate Finance

Partners Government of Norway
Description Transformational change will be required to
increase access to modern energy, improve energy efficiency and to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. To provide universal modern energy access by 2030,
annual investment needs to average more than 5 times the current level of USD 9
billion. ODA is insufficient to meet this need. The public sector, including
multilateral and bilateral institutions, needs to use its funds and tools to
leverage commercial investments and to develop effective public-private
community partnerships. Results-based financing can be used to create required
incentives to improve the enabling environment for commercial investments in the
energy sector. Emerging lessons from dialogue with the private sector will be
presented at the event, and the question of how climate finance could
potentially become a major source of finance for renewable energy development
will be addressed.
Materials
  • Agenda
Themes

2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM:  Gender Equality for Sustainability

Partners Global Compact, UN Women
Description Despite increased efforts, corporate
sustainability and gender equality concerns often remain disconnected. This
session will explore how business can maximize its contribution to sustainable
development by prioritizing and integrating gender equality and women’s
empowerment as key components of corporate sustainability. Examples of concrete,
innovative business approaches and practices in this area will be highlighted.
Themes

2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM:  New Geographies of Corporate Sustainability

Partners Global Compact, Global Compact Local Network
Brazil, Global Compact Local Network India, Global Compact Network
China
Description A economic power has been shifting towards
high-growth and emerging economies such as China India and Brazil, this session
will highlight innovations, approaches and perspectives on corporate
sustainability in emerging economies, which are bound to have significant impact
on the global corporate sustainability discourse and practice. Based on research
and the discussions at workshops convened by Global Compact LEAD and Global
Compact Local Networks in the Spring of 2012, this session will test and enrich
the insights gained from the workshops, and capture emerging market solutions
presented during the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum itself. By delving
into cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, this session will also
explore the unique role businesses play in emerging markets to drive innovation
and forge partnerships that contribute to sustainable development.
Themes

2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM:  Responsible Water Management Practices in
Conflict-Affected &

High-Risk Areas

Partners Global Compact
Description Conflict and high-risk areas pose a variety of
threats to society, natural resources and to businesses with operations there.
The ways in which companies manage both land and water resources can have either
positive or negative impacts – both on their business and society more broadly.
Through responsible business practices, companies can manage risks and play an
important role in contributing to peace and sustainable development. This
session will highlight how companies can make a positive contribution to the
sustainable management of water in high-risk operating environments where the
implications of their actions or inactions are much more pronounced. The CEO
Water Mandate will present a new framework for understanding the nature of water
challenges in conflict-affected/high-risk areas and how these affect
business.
Th

2:00 PM  –  3:30 PM: The Sweet Spot: Cocoa’s Promise of Sustainability, Equity,
Profitability for Smallholders & Business


For more information click here. 
Partners IFAD
Description This event will showcase examples of successful
business relationships in the cocoa sector that benefit both smallholders and
business. It will examine the key success factors and challenges in these
experiences and the extent to which these experiences in the cocoa sector could
be replicated or scaled up in other settings. The event will show that “success”
should be defined by its sustainability, which in turn should be understood in
its three dimensions: social, environmental and economic. The event will
highlight the policies and practices that have proven effective in supporting
and galvanizing innovative commercial relations between smallholder farmers in
developing countries and markets for sustainable products, through the promotion
of climate-smart, organic, and fair trade practices. These have brought economic
benefits for smallholder farmers, environmental benefits to the land under
production, and social returns through strengthened communities and empowered
individuals. The event will be opened and moderated by the President of IFAD,
Mr. Kanayo F. Nwanze. Presenters will share their experiences of working in
partnership to develop sustainable agricultural practices in the production of
cocoa through IFAD-supported projects in Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone,
and Indonesia.

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