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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miLestOnes<br />
then-uneP director klaus töpfer in<br />
Johannesburg: world summit on sustainable<br />
development (wssd)<br />
2002<br />
As participation in the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> continued to grow at rapid speed in<br />
2002, the initiative introduced early elements of its emerging governance<br />
structure. In january 2002, the newly formed <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Advisory<br />
Council, an interdisciplinary high-level body comprising leaders from business,<br />
civil society, labor, and academia, appointed and chaired by the Secretary-<br />
General, held its first meeting in New York to discuss the evolution and future<br />
direction of the initiative. In june 2002, the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Office released<br />
its first Progress Report, presenting a comprehensive overview of the <strong>Global</strong><br />
<strong>Compact</strong> and progress made in the initiative’s core areas of activity.<br />
At the world Summit for Sustainable Development, held in johannesburg in<br />
September, the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> and UNDP launched the Growing Sustainable<br />
Business (GSB) initiative, recognizing that – in the absence of sufficient<br />
investment in developing countries – the MDGs would not be achieved<br />
without a sustainable contribution by the private sector. Coordinated and<br />
managed by UNDP to this day, the GSB offers a platform for companies<br />
that seek to develop commercially viable business projects within their<br />
core business or value chain. GSB projects have since been launched in 12<br />
countries around the world.<br />
On the national level, the year 2002 saw the launch of events for the <strong>Global</strong><br />
<strong>Compact</strong> in Spain, Turkey, Ghana, and Italy, among others. By the end of<br />
the year, the number of participants had reached 600 organizations. As of<br />
November 2002, the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Office began releasing a full list of<br />
participants on its website.<br />
PaRtneRsHiP<br />
june: Building Partnerships report<br />
published, which offers an overview of the<br />
growing cooperation between the United<br />
Nations and business<br />
educatiOn<br />
june: Academic Network established<br />
LOcaL netwORks<br />
December: First Learning Network Forum<br />
(ALNF) in Berlin identifies knowledge and<br />
learning gaps<br />
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<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2010</strong>
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