Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum

Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum
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Hosted by the UN Global Compact, in cooperation with the Rio+20 Secretariat, the UN System and the Global Compact Local Network Brazil, the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum: Innovation and Collaboration for the Future We Want (15-18 June 2012) seeks to bring greater scale and quality to corporate sustainability practices, as a critical contribution to sustainable development. As a showcase for innovation and collaboration, the Forum is designed to be a launching ground for widespread action. With more than 2,500 participants in attendance, the Forum features over 100 sessions focused on six themes central to the Rio+20 agenda: Energy & Climate, Water & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Food, Social Development, Urbanization & Cities, and Economics & Finance. www.compact4rio.org

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Business Leaders Commit to Water Sustainability at Rio+20; In Special Communiqué, CEOs Urge Complementary Action From Governments
(3BL Media) Rio de Janeiro - June 18, 2012 - A group of 45 chief executive officers, representing a diverse range of global companies and regions, today announced a major commitment to advance corporate water management practices, and called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water security a top priority. In a special Communiqué carrying the...
Jun 18, 2012 1:30 PM ET
Business Models for Small-Scale Farmers and Solutions for Big Cities among the Innovations Put forward at Private Sector Track to Rio+20
(3BL Media) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - June 17, 2012 -  New ways to bring energy, light and water to the world´s rapidly expanding cities, and possibilities for small-scale farmers to emerge from poverty and feed the world´s growing population, emerged from the third day of the private sector track to the Rio + 20 summit. By 2050, 75 per cent of the world population will live...
Jun 17, 2012 9:30 PM ET
UN Global Compact and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce A Framework for Action on Social Enterprise and Impact Investing
(3BL Media) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - June 17, 2012 -  A new Framework for Action launched today offers investors, large corporations and Governments a valuable resource for engaging with and supporting an escalating global business trend – the rising number of for-profit social enterprises whose goods and services address social and environmental needs.  The product of a...
Jun 17, 2012 3:15 PM ET
Business Leaders in Rio Respond to UN Secretary-General’s Call for “Tipping Point” in Corporate Sustainability
(3BL Media) Rio de Janeiro, 16 June 2012 - The first full day of the private sector track to Rio +20 opened with business schools stepping up sustainable development curricula, investment firms backing natural capital accounting, and corporate action on biodiversity. “Corporate sustainability is an idea whose time has come...
Jun 16, 2012 8:00 PM ET
Rio+20: Business Leaders to Deliver on Strategies for Sustainability at 15-18 June Forum, Ahead of the Rio+20 Summit
(3BL Media) Rio de Janeiro - 15 June 2012 - “Innovation and collaboration are driving a bottom-up change process across many critical areas of contemporary life,” UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell said at the opening of a business forum that precedes the United Nations sustainable development conference in Rio de Janeiro. “To bring this movement up to a scale necessary to...
Jun 15, 2012 3:15 PM ET

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