Global Compact International Yearbook 2014
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues. This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context? The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data". Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Other issues are : Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International. Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues.
This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context?
The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data".
Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Other issues are :
Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International.
Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
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Good Practice<br />
environment<br />
Princess Noura bint AbdulRahman<br />
University for Women –<br />
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia<br />
Recognized as one of the world’s mega<br />
projects, the green building campus at<br />
Princess Noura bint AbdulRahman University<br />
(PNBAR) is the first of its kind in<br />
Saudi Arabia and uses the world’s largest<br />
district solar water heater.<br />
With an installed capacity of 17 MW, it<br />
provides hot water for all 40,000 students<br />
in the 8 sq km campus through its 36,000<br />
sq meter solar collector area. CCC was<br />
responsible for the construction and<br />
acted as a procurement partner.<br />
13 MW PV Solar Power Plant –<br />
Dubai - UAE<br />
Dubai’s first move toward using renewable<br />
energy was the inauguration of the<br />
largest operating Solar Photovoltaic (PV)<br />
Plant in the Middle East and North Africa<br />
in October 2013.<br />
The Solar Plant is Dubai’s largest, capable<br />
of displacing 15,000 tons of CO 2<br />
a<br />
year – the equivalent of removing 2,000<br />
cars from the road. It is also the largest<br />
Photovoltaic Plant in the region. It is the<br />
first stage of the planned Mohammed bin<br />
Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park – a vast<br />
complex with a planned output capacity<br />
of 1,000 MW by 2030.<br />
The new Photovoltaic Plant in Dubai was<br />
built by the American solar panel manufacturer<br />
First Solar, which will operate it on<br />
behalf of Dewa (Dubai Electricity & Water<br />
Authority). First Solar won this engineering,<br />
procurement, and construction (EPC)<br />
project amidst fierce competition, including<br />
from aggressive Chinese companies.<br />
First Solar won it based on an advanced<br />
technology called “thin-film PV.” The company’s<br />
thin-film modules have lower levels<br />
of power loss than any other photovoltaic<br />
technology. In general, all renewable<br />
energy technologies (solar, wind, wasteto-energy,<br />
etc.) are in the development<br />
stage. What is critical is the yield, the<br />
performance, and the durability after<br />
years of operation, but this is difficult to<br />
determine. The company also developed<br />
a water-less method to clean the panels<br />
to counteract the high amounts of dust.<br />
CCC successfully approached First Solar<br />
from among many local companies, demonstrating<br />
our strengths in logistics for<br />
remote areas, backup, local knowledge,<br />
and construction capabilities with our<br />
commitment to Safety and Quality. Although<br />
our price was not the lowest, First<br />
Solar made the right choice and did not<br />
“risk a delay.” The project was labeled a<br />
high-profile project by the UAE with an<br />
eye toward boosting Dubai as a destination<br />
to promote green energy and to reduce its<br />
carbon footprint, which will help Dubai<br />
for the upcoming Expo 2020.<br />
Although the construction value of the<br />
project is small (only US $13 million), the<br />
difficult part was coordinating the mobilization<br />
and construction in a very short<br />
period. Total duration was six months<br />
(May to September 2013), but this short<br />
period included rock finding, summer<br />
heat, sand storms, Ramadan leave, holidays,<br />
and Eid.<br />
The project ushers in the beginning of<br />
CCC’s pursuit to start the “Construction<br />
of Renewable Energy Projects.”<br />
Facts and figures:<br />
• The generating capacity is 13 MW of<br />
clean energy.<br />
• The project will generate 24 million<br />
kWh of electricity per year.<br />
• The project required more than 800<br />
man-days and 1.4 million man-hours<br />
to complete, all of which were accidentfree.<br />
• The project will eliminate 15,000 metric<br />
tons of CO 2<br />
per year.<br />
• Performance ratio is more than 83<br />
percent.<br />
• The project is powered by 152,880 PV<br />
modules, 32,000 rails, 18,000 beams,<br />
8,700 posts, 3,000 meters of fencing,<br />
13 inverter buildings, and 1 control<br />
33 kV substation.<br />
• The project covers an area of 280,000<br />
sq meters.<br />
• Operating date: 4th Quarter of 2013.<br />
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