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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Toward Rio: New E-Learning Tool Guides Companies on Supply Chain Sustainability
(3BL Media) New York - June 13, 2012 - Today the UN Global Compact, in collaboration with BSR and Maplecroft, launched the UN Global Compact Quick Self-Assessment and Learning Tool, an online platform developed to help companies evaluate their approach to supply chain sustainability and identify areas for improvement. The tool enables procurement, sourcing and other managers, to quickly...
Jun 13, 2012 1:00 PM ET
Toward Rio: Global Compact Aims to Advance Sustainability with Integrity
(3BL Media) New York - June 11, 2012 - To highlight the importance of ethics and compliance in delivering corporate sustainability’s full potential, the UN Global Compact has developed a new report, Sustainability with Integrity: Organisational Change to Collective Action. The publication illustrates a range of corporate actions to implement the Global Compact’s tenth principle on...
Jun 11, 2012 2:00 PM ET
Toward Rio: New Report to Address Scaling Up Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture for a Future with Zero Hunger
(3BL Media) New York - June 8, 2012 - The UN Global Compact today released a new report, Scaling Up Global Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, in advance of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, to be held 15-18 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The report highlights leading-edge practices being implemented by Global Compact participants around the world, in concert...
Jun 8, 2012 1:30 PM ET
Environment: Capitalist Conservationists
In advance of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), Financial Times environment correspondent Pilita Clark looks at how businesses are taking the lead in proposing green strategies.
Jun 7, 2012 5:00 PM ET
Toward Rio: Leading Business Sustainability Groups Make Case for Greater Scale and Collaboration
(3BL Media) New York/Amsterdam - June 7, 2012 - Two of the world’s most prominent business-oriented sustainability organizations – the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – today issued a joint statement highlighting the urgent need to take pioneering corporate sustainability practices to greater scale, and calling on governments to work more fully with the...
Jun 7, 2012 4:45 PM ET

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