Global Compact International Yearbook Ausgabe 2010
A profound retrospective of the first decade of the UN Global Compact, challenges in the light of the year of biodiversity, and instruments for an adequate Corporate Citizenship are some of the issues highlighted in the new 2010 edition of the “Global Compact International Yearbook”. Among this years prominent authors are Ban Ki-moon, Bill Clinton, Joschka Fischer and Achim Steiner. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “As the Global Compact enters its second decade, it is my hope that this Yearbook will be an inspiration to bring responsible business to true scale.” Formally presented during the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York, the yearbook is now for sale. Looking back at the past ten years, the United Nations Global Compact has left its mark in a variety of ways, helping shape the conservation about corporate responsibility and diffusing the concept of a principle-based approach to doing business across the globe. Chapter two deals with Biodiversity: UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner emphasizes the importance of protecting the nature: “Climate change has been described as the biggest market failure of all time – the loss of biodiversity and nature’s economically-important services must surely be running a close second, if not an equal first. Year in and year out, the world economy may be losing services from forests to freshwaters and from soils to coral reefs, with resulting costs of up to $4.5 trillion or more. Decisive action needs to be taken to reverse these declines or the bill will continue to climb – and with it any hopes of achieving the poverty-related Millennium Development Goals and a sustainable 21st century for six billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050.” Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, adds: “Now is the time for concrete action from the business community to save life on earth. The alternative is an impoverished planet that can no longer support a healthy, vibrant global economy. The stakes in this fight could not be higher. As the slogan of the International Year reminds us, ‘Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life.’”
A profound retrospective of the first decade of the UN Global Compact, challenges in the light of the year of biodiversity, and instruments for an adequate Corporate Citizenship are some of the issues highlighted in the new 2010 edition of the “Global Compact International Yearbook”. Among this years prominent authors are Ban Ki-moon, Bill Clinton, Joschka Fischer and Achim Steiner. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: “As the Global Compact enters its second decade, it is my hope that this Yearbook will be an inspiration to bring responsible business to true scale.” Formally presented during the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York, the yearbook is now for sale. Looking back at the past ten years, the United Nations Global Compact has left its mark in a variety of ways, helping shape the conservation about corporate responsibility and diffusing the concept of a principle-based approach to doing business across the globe.
Chapter two deals with Biodiversity: UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner emphasizes the importance of protecting the nature: “Climate change has been described as the biggest market failure of all time – the loss of biodiversity and nature’s economically-important services must surely be running a close second, if not an equal first. Year in and year out, the world economy may be losing services from forests to freshwaters and from soils to coral reefs, with resulting costs of up to $4.5 trillion or more. Decisive action needs to be taken to reverse these declines or the bill will continue to climb – and with it any hopes of achieving the poverty-related Millennium Development Goals and a sustainable 21st century for six billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050.” Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, adds: “Now is the time for concrete action from the business community to save life on earth. The alternative is an impoverished planet that can no longer support a healthy, vibrant global economy. The stakes in this fight could not be higher. As the slogan of the International Year reminds us, ‘Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life.’”
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Best Practice<br />
Partnership<br />
activities. In addition, KPMG in India<br />
has initiated a KPMG-SIFE Business<br />
Ethics grant, which is offered to teams<br />
that exhibit a proper understanding<br />
of business ethics and have also incorporated<br />
a strong ethical element<br />
into their projects.<br />
2. KPMG in Brazil has been supporting<br />
SIFE Brazil for ten years. The chairman<br />
of KPMG in Brazil plays an active role<br />
in the new Council Board of SIFE in<br />
Brazil. Also, KPMG in Brazil was a<br />
main sponsor of the 2008 National<br />
Competition; three KPMG Partners<br />
were judges at the event; and a KPMG<br />
audit manager and supporting team<br />
member helped to coordinate and<br />
audit the processes for credibility.<br />
3. Since 2002, KPMG in Nigeria has been<br />
providing bookkeeping services, internet<br />
access, payroll administration,<br />
and sponsoring the logistical aspects<br />
of the annual national competition.<br />
KPMG in India’s Partner<br />
school program<br />
Expansion of our involvement to the<br />
primary and mid-level education sectors<br />
was a natural progression of our commitment<br />
toward encouraging and fostering<br />
academic excellence. This program is<br />
in addition to our other education programs,<br />
and we hope to make a tangible<br />
difference in the lives of children in our<br />
communities.<br />
Our current partner schools, both<br />
with classes for students from kindergarten<br />
to the 10th grade are:<br />
• Literacy India, Delhi:<br />
Literacy India started in 1996 with<br />
the objective of empowering underprivileged<br />
children and women. With<br />
a diverse range of programs, Literacy<br />
India works with women and children<br />
in villages to impart basic education,<br />
and also to help them develop skills<br />
in performing arts, science, and technology.<br />
• St Joseph’s High School, Colaba, Mumbai:<br />
St Joseph’s High School was founded<br />
in 1929 by the Convent of Jesus and<br />
Mary. The school aims at imparting<br />
education for the overall development<br />
of a child’s personality, and lays emphasis<br />
on outdoor activities and physical<br />
training.<br />
The Brazil team at the 2009 SIFE<br />
World Cup in Berlin<br />
national and regional SIFE operations.<br />
KPMG member firm Partners support<br />
SIFE by being national, regional, and<br />
international judges and sit on various<br />
SIFE advisory boards.<br />
Following are three specific examples<br />
of member firm involvement:<br />
1. The chairman of the KPMG Foundation<br />
in India is the vice chairman of<br />
SIFE India, and three KPMG employees<br />
support the regional coordination<br />
for SIFE in Bangalore and Delhi to<br />
promote and increase SIFE activities<br />
in India. KPMG also provides judges,<br />
mentors, and verifiers for the regional<br />
Our initiatives in education span schools<br />
and colleges across India. Through programs<br />
such as SIFE and KA India, we<br />
provide a platform for school and college<br />
students to build their understanding of<br />
the business environment around them.<br />
Both these programs are dynamic tools<br />
for our Staff to engage actively with the<br />
citizens of tomorrow and shape their<br />
outlooks.<br />
During the past year, we began our<br />
Partner school program, which seeks to<br />
strengthen the infrastructure, IT, and<br />
teaching inputs in selected schools. We<br />
strongly believe that a sound educational<br />
framework plays a key role in furthering<br />
community development and creating a<br />
valuable human resource network.<br />
Partner school program<br />
Hospice Africa<br />
KPMG in Ireland wanted to reach out to<br />
people in the developing world living in<br />
extreme poverty. When the charity Hospice<br />
Africa established a Dublin support<br />
office, KPMG Ireland’s CEO made it his<br />
responsibility to help them by seconding<br />
a director to act as interim CEO, whose<br />
job it was to advise and assist the Board<br />
for six months in developing the vision,<br />
goals, processes, and procedures for the<br />
organization. This skills-based support<br />
will leverage a cash donation from the<br />
Irish firm to fund a new clinical building<br />
in Uganda over the next three years,<br />
which will be a center of excellence in<br />
palliative care. Its benefits will stretch<br />
internationally as medical staff will be<br />
invited to share learning and best practice<br />
to take back to their own countries.<br />
In September 2009, KPMG’s work with<br />
Hospice Africa won the Chambers Ireland<br />
CSR Award for best international<br />
project, providing public recognition<br />
for the project as a leading example of<br />
corporate social responsibility.<br />
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