World Economic Forum Annual Report 2006/2007

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World Economic Forum Annual Report 2006/2007 24BuildingpublicprivatepartnershipsThe Forum’s Centre for Public–PrivatePartnership continued to see strongengagement from industry across a numberof critical global issues. In particular we sawthe start of a major collaboration on climatechange. This involved many of the Forum’sIndustry Partners working with the G8Gleneagles ‘Dialogue on Climate Change,Clean Energy and Sustainable Development’.Progress was made in the ongoing battle againstthe spread of HIV/AIDS. Companies involved in ourGlobal Health Initiative (GHI) launched a new effortin partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Health.This brought together a group of multinational andChinese companies, with a combined workforce of5 million. They also devised ground-breaking newmodels for corporate engagement in strengtheningpublic health systems in Africa and extendingHIV/AIDS and TB best practice to supply chains.With sustainability high on the global agenda,companies in our Food and Beverage IndustryPartners programme began a new partnershipto create sustainable agricultural value chains inAfrica through a pilot project in Kenya.We also saw major developments in ourInformation Technology and TelecommunicationsIndustry Partners programme. The Forum’sInternational Monetary Convention Project,meanwhile, issued its final report following twoyears of public–private roundtable meetings onthe future of the international monetary system.Gleneagles DialogueOver the past year the Forum has significantlyincreased the engagement of the businessPartners of the Rajasthan Education Initiative at a school in Jaipur, Rajasthan. They interact with teachers and studentsat schools with newly installed computers and other IT infrastructure.
World Economic Forum Annual Report 2006/2007 25community in initiatives to combat climate change.The centerpiece activity for our industry partnermembers is their engagement in the G8 +5governments’ Gleneagles Action Plan. This isan informal government–business dialogue onclimate change, clean energy and sustainabledevelopment, designed to develop long-termpolicies to manage climate change. The Foruminvited the World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment to also collaborate on thisengagement process.As part of this dialogue, a number of high-levelpublic–private work streams are now under way,working on policy ideas, north-to-south finance,and practical steps towards reducing carbonemissions in the short run. Outcomes from theseworking groups will be announced at the G8leaders meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, in July 2008.There have been some significant developmentsalready. For example:At the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, January2007, over 40 CEOs, international NGO heads,political leaders and other climate change expertswere convened within a workshop environment,to help develop the project focus and activities.In March 2007, the Forum co-hosted a majormeeting on financing clean energy with themultilateral development banks and the G8governments. More than 35 of the Forum’sIndustry Partners took part in the event, whichincluded a keynote speech delivered by GordonBrown, now the UK Prime Minister. The workshophas catalysed a series of public–private workinggroups on clean energy finance which will reporttheir ideas back to the World Bank–IMF AnnualMeeting in October 2007.In May 2007, more than 80 of the Forum’s IndustryPartners gathered for the first in a series of broadclimate change policy discussions with a rangeof environmental policy experts, including Yvo DeBoer, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC.Global Health InitiativeIt was a strong year for the Global Health Initiative(GHI). Our efforts to encourage the businesscommunity to play a critical role in finding solutionsto the problems of AIDS, TB and malaria havedelivered impressive results.One initiative, the Beyond Big Business Partnership,saw participation from large global companies suchas Eskom, Heineken, Standard Chartered Bank,Unilever and Volkswagen. With support from the4mIn 2006 the India Business Alliance to Stop TB reacheda total of 4 million people with a combination ofworkplace and community programmes.
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