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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teCK<br />
aDDreSSInG tHe GLOBaL<br />
HeaLtH ISSue OF<br />
ZInC DeFICIenCY<br />
By Alannah Cervenko, Teck<br />
As one of the world’s largest producers of zinc, Teck is<br />
committed to helping solve the global health issue of<br />
zinc deficiency. Zinc is an essential micronutrient for<br />
human health and crucial for normal growth and brain<br />
development. Each year, nearly 450,000 children die as a<br />
result of not having enough zinc in their diets. Millions<br />
more suffer from complications associated with zinc<br />
deficiency, including stunted growth and a weakened<br />
immune system that leaves them unable to fight illnesses.<br />
At the Copenhagen Consensus in 2008,<br />
a group of leading global economists<br />
ranked micronutrient supplements –<br />
specifically zinc and vitamin A – as the<br />
top international development priority<br />
out of more than 40 interventions<br />
considered. The group determined that<br />
every dollar spent on increased access<br />
to zinc supplementation results in $17<br />
in economic benefits. In the countries<br />
with the highest burdens, the economic<br />
benefits of zinc supplementation can<br />
be up to 100 times higher than the cost.<br />
In 2011, Teck launched its Zinc & Health<br />
program to raise awareness and contribute<br />
to short- and long-term solutions<br />
to zinc deficiency worldwide. To date,<br />
more than 40 million people have been<br />
reached as a result of Teck’s programs<br />
and partnerships, and millions more will<br />
benefit from efforts to improve education<br />
and training.<br />
Therapeutic zinc<br />
Each day, diarrhea kills more than 1,500<br />
children under the age of five. Ninety<br />
percent of these child deaths happen in<br />
developing countries in Asia and Africa,<br />
where clean drinking water, sanitation,<br />
and access to urgent medical care is limited.<br />
Therapeutic zinc, combined with<br />
oral rehydration salts (ORS), is a simple,<br />
inexpensive treatment for diarrhea and<br />
can prevent future episodes for up to<br />
three months.<br />
90 <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2014</strong>
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