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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Publishing house:<br />
macondo Media Group<br />
Foreword:<br />
Ban Ki-moon<br />
Publisher:<br />
Dr. Elmer Lenzen<br />
Solely responsible for the editorial contributions under the<br />
heading “Best practice” are the companies themselves.<br />
Named articles do not reflect the opinion of the publisher.<br />
Editorial staff:<br />
Marion Book (Senior Editor), Judith Bomholt (Editor), Gerd<br />
Pfitzenmaier (Associate Editor), Malte Jonas Klingenhäger<br />
(Assistant)<br />
Photo Director:<br />
Marion Book<br />
Art Director:<br />
Alexander Pawlak<br />
Text Editor:<br />
Robert Furlong<br />
Translations:<br />
Casey Butterfield<br />
Editorial Advisory Board:<br />
Habiba Al Marashi (Emirates Environmental Group), Dr.<br />
Achieng Ojwang (National Business Initiative South Africa),<br />
Matthias Stausberg (United Nations <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong>), Ralph<br />
Thurm, (Deloitte), Dr. Cornis Theunis van der Lugt (United<br />
Nations Environmental Programme)<br />
Authors of this edition (in alphabetical order):<br />
Editorial section: Shulamit Alony, Dr. Dorothée Baumann,<br />
William Jefferson Clinton, Paul Dickinson, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf,<br />
Prof. Daniel C. Esty, John Finisdore, Joschka Fischer, James<br />
Gifford, Georg Kell, Huguette Labelle, Dr. Elmer Lenzen, Ernst<br />
R. Ligteringen, Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Thomas I. Palley,<br />
Prof. V. Kasturi Rangan, Prof. Andreas Rasche, Prof. Andreas<br />
Georg Scherer, Mirjam Schöning, Anita Sharma, Dr. Jane<br />
Smart, Matthias Stausberg, Achim Steiner, Prof. Klaus Töpfer,<br />
Tensie Whelan, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul<br />
Best practice section: Emma Arvidsson, M. Bhaskar, Dr.<br />
Wolfgang Bloch, Dr. Andreas Blüthner, Dagny Bühler<br />
Thierfelder, Soledad Burbano, Francesca Carnesella, Eduardo<br />
Dantas, Sandra David, Julija Dietrich, Hans-Günther Dymek,<br />
Julio Eisman, Dietlind Freiberg, Lilian Furrer, María del<br />
Rosario García, Simonetta Giordani, Dr. Wolfgang Große<br />
Entrup, Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE, Dr. Reiner<br />
Hengstmann, Stephan Howeg, Hélène Jessua, Jeff Joerres,<br />
Carina Lundberg Markow, Benedetta Masignani, Simona Matt,<br />
Walid Nagi, Ana María Naranjo Alzate, José Pascowitch, Ralf<br />
Pfitzner, Andrea Ragni, Sabina Ratti, Jeffrey Revels, Christine<br />
C. Schneider, Michael Scholing-Darby, Magdalena Sekkenes,<br />
Stefan D. Seidel, Juan Ramón Silva, Ralf Steuer, Frank Stokes,<br />
Susanne Stormer, Andreas Streubig, Daniel Suarez, Elizete<br />
Neto Tavares Paes, Jimena Maria Toro, Fridolin Weindl, Rainer<br />
Wend<br />
Photo Credits:<br />
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe (P. 3, 24, 31), UN Photo/Andrea<br />
Brizzi (P. 4 above, 6/7), Stephan Kerkhofs/Fotolia.com (P. 4<br />
below, 34/35), nyul/Fotolia.com (P. 5, 52), UN Photo/Rick<br />
Bajornas (P. 9 above), The <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> photo (P. 9 below),<br />
The William J. Clinton Foundation/Ralph Alswang (P. 10),<br />
UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz (P. 11), Siemens press picture (P.<br />
12), Transparency <strong>International</strong> (P. 13), Rainforest Alliance<br />
(P. 14), IASS (P. 15), GRI (P. 16), PRI (P. 17), CDP (P. 18),<br />
Bundestagsbüro Wieczorek-Zeul (P. 19), Alexander Reitter/<br />
Fotolia.com (P. 20), Andreas Rasche (P. 23), bigfoto.com (P.<br />
25), UNEP (P. 26), Présidence de la Republique France (P. 27),<br />
UN Photo/Mark Garten (P. 28), GC Summit China Final Report<br />
(P. 29), UN Photo/Evan Schneider (P. 30, 37), UN Photo/Marco<br />
Castro (P. 32), Matthias Stausberg (P. 33 left), UN Photo/<br />
Martine Perret (P. 36 above), Rob Bouwman/Fotolia.com (P.<br />
36 below), Maren Bessler/pixelio.de (P. 38 right), Klicker/<br />
pixelio.de (P. 41 above), Thomas Koehler/photothek.net (P.<br />
41 below), Michael Bührke/pixelio.de (P. 42 above), Thorben<br />
Wengert/pixelio.de (P. 42 below), Daniel C. Esty (P. 44 below),<br />
IUCN (P. 45), John Finisdore (P. 49), Shulamit Alony (P. 51),<br />
LChad McDermott/Fotolia.com (P. 54/55), Dorothee Baumann<br />
(P. 56 left), Andreas G. Scherer (P. 56 right), Yuri Arcurs/<br />
Fotolia.com (P. 57), Kasturi Rangan (P. 59), Thomas I. Palley<br />
(P. 63), WFP/Debbi Morello (P. 66), Mirjam Schöning (P. 68),<br />
Anita Sharma (P. 69), Acciona (P. 72/75), Adecco Group (P. 77),<br />
AMEC (P. 78), Argos (P. 80/81), Autostrade Per L´Italia/Donato<br />
di Bello (P. 82), Autostrade Per L´Italia (P. 83), BASF (P. 85),<br />
Bayer HealthCare AG (P. 87), Bayer CropScience (P. 88 above),<br />
Bayer Material Science (P. 88 below), Bosch (P. 90-92 above),<br />
Bosch/ Thomas Bauer (P. 92 below), Bradesco (P. 94/95), BSH<br />
(P. 96/97), Carrefour (P. 98/99), COOP (P. 100/101), Copagaz<br />
(P. 103 below), Copagaz/Beto Novaes (P. 103 above), Copeinca<br />
(P. 104), Camposol (P. 105), Deutsche Bank/Angel Herrero de<br />
Frutos (P. 106/107), Deutsche Bank (P. 108), Michael Betts/<br />
Getty Images (P. 109), Deutsche Post DHL (P. 110/112/113),<br />
Deutsche Post DHL/ Nikolaus Brade (P. 111), Deutsche<br />
Telekom (P. 114), ENI (P. 117/118), Folksam (P. 121), Grundfos<br />
(P. 122), Hathay Bunano (P. 124/125), Henkel (P. 126/127),<br />
ICA/ Martin Lof (P. 128), ICA (P. 129), ISA/Adriana Goenaga<br />
Pe-a (P. 130), KPMG (P. 132), Pixmedia (P. 133), KPMG (P. 135),<br />
Lufthansa/Jens Polkowski, FRAEIK (P. 137 left), Lufthansa<br />
(P. 137 right), Manpower (P. 138/139), Mansour Group (P.<br />
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