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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Agenda<br />
10 th Anniversary<br />
Partnership<br />
April: <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> and OCHA launch<br />
new business guide on emergency aid<br />
Anti-Corruption<br />
December: UN Convention against<br />
Corruption enters into force<br />
Partnership<br />
December: UN General Assembly<br />
encourages <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Office to<br />
promote partnerships<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Summit in China: 500 international business<br />
leaders and representatives of government and civil society<br />
assembled. It is the largest event ever held in China on the topic<br />
of responsible business.<br />
Local Networks<br />
December: New guidance document for<br />
Local Networks released<br />
2005<br />
For the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong>, the year 2005 has brought not only<br />
further growth and new initiatives, but also major structural<br />
changes. What was required was to better link global strategies<br />
with local action, ensure integrity, improve the quality<br />
of businesses’ commitment and give the companies and<br />
organisations involved a stronger share in the initiative’s<br />
strategic and operational development. Consultation was<br />
entrusted to John G. Ruggie, who was then Special Adviser<br />
to the Secretary-General on the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong>, and Georg<br />
Kell, Executive Head of the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Office. SG Kofi<br />
Annan endorsed this new Governance Framework in August<br />
2005 and launched the implementation process. In keeping<br />
with the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong>’s voluntary and network-based character,<br />
the governance framework is light, non-bureaucratic<br />
and designed to foster greater involvement in, and ownership<br />
of, the initiative by participants and other stakeholders<br />
themselves. Governance functions are shared by seven<br />
entities, each with differentiated tasks within a multi-centric<br />
framework including Leaders Summits, Local Networks, a<br />
Board, the GC office and the Inter-Agency Team.<br />
September: <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong><br />
releases “Business UNusual<br />
– Facilitating United Nations<br />
Reform through Partnerships”<br />
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