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 />
Local work played an especially significant role in the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> in 2007.<br />
While there are still blanks on the map in the seventh year since the Initiative was<br />
founded, their number is declining. Among the largest companies in the <strong>Global</strong><br />
<strong>Compact</strong> (by market capitalization), mining, the oil and gas sector and the utilities<br />
sector have well-above-average representation. No signatories, or only a few, can be<br />
found among the global leaders in the real estate sector, among mobile telephone<br />
companies and the media.<br />
Of course, the main event of 2007 was the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> Leaders Summit, whose<br />
second edition took place on 5th and 6th July 2007 in Geneva. The Summit set new<br />
directions for the Initiative’s future. With over 1,100 participants from more than<br />
80 nations, it was the largest summit ever held by the United Nations on sustainable<br />
economic activity. As the Summit’s final document, participants approved<br />
the “Geneva Declaration”, whose 21 points again emphasise the importance of a<br />
values-conscious private sector for a sustainable global economy. Likewise, the<br />
Geneva Declaration calls on United Nations member states to offer government<br />
incentives, beyond regulations, for responsible business activity.<br />
2007<br />
Environment<br />
March: Principles on Climate Leadership<br />
launched<br />
Environment<br />
July: Launch of initiatives Caring for<br />
Climate and CEO Water Mandate<br />
Education<br />
July: Business schools want to advance<br />
corporate citizenship<br />
COP<br />
September: COP program becomes widely<br />
recognized<br />
Human Rights<br />
December: <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> begins yearlong<br />
campaign to raise business awareness<br />
On 1 January 2007, Ban Ki-moon became the eighth Secretary-<br />
General of the United Nations. In July he attended the <strong>Global</strong><br />
<strong>Compact</strong> Leaders Summit in Geneva.<br />
Local Networks<br />
December: Report issued – Local Networks<br />
gaining in strength and impact<br />
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