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