16-18 August 2009
Stockholm, Sweden
The CEO Water Mandate convenes two working conferences per year to bring corporate water experts and practitioners together with a range of key stakeholders and partners, including civil society organizations, specialized water institutes, UN agencies, public authorities, and other interests.
For more information, please contact Gavin Power, UN Global Compact.
August 20 - 21, 2009
Shanghai, China
In the past decades, with the business expanding, companies have been considering the impacts of CSR as an important factor for business strategy. Product quality is not the only thing customer cares, contribution the company has done to society and environment becomes another important motive to encourage them to buy. This also turns out to be a factor for corporate sustainable development. We provide the most practical toolboxes in this event, including information, ideas and advice designed to help companies and their stakeholders address socio-economic and environmental challenges and integrate CSR into mainstream business practice.
For more information, please click here.
September 7 - 9, 2009
Vaasa, Finland
Topics include but are not limited to: Responsible leadership CR innovations CR in developing countries Responsible accounting and reporting CR & Diversity Ethical and fair trade CR in global economy Corporate governance CR in supply chains SMEs & CR Business ethics & NGOs CR standards and tools Corporate sustainability management Corporate social & cultural responsibility Sustainable entrepreneurship Ethical consumers
For more information, please click here or contact tarja.ketola@uwasa.fi.
22 September 2009
New York, USA
Held as the official lunch event during the Summit on Climate Change to which all world leaders have been invited. The Forum is designed to allow the private sector to make the case to Heads of State and Government that business has a strong interest in the negotiation of a balanced and effective United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Private sector leaders from all regions of the world will discuss how business can be part of the solution to climate change and how to enhance public-private cooperation.
For more information, please click here or contact Melissa Powell, UN Global Compact.
21 – 23 November 2009
Lima, Peru
The project "Hotels for Life" (“Hoteles por la Vida”) was launched in February 2009 in the run up to the 5th Latin American and Caribbean Forum on HIV and STIs (FORO). The project aims to raise awareness among the hotel industry in Lima about the importance of HIV prevention strategies and to address HIV-related stigma and discrimination issues in their hotels. The project is funded by UNAIDS and implemented by APROPO, a NGO specialized in HIV in the workplace.
APROPO provides capacity-building training workshops which include a situational analysis, education information on HIV prevention, an overview of the epidemic in Peru, information on how to tackle stigma and discrimination at work, etc.
As of June 2009, 20 workshops have taken place in 14 hotels reaching over 500 hotel employees. The project will reach its peak during the FORO with a campaign which will include the display of AIDS related leaflets and posters and distribution of free condoms in all participating hotels. Hotel staff will also bear a pin with the campaign’s logo.
For more information, please contact Maria Engel, Partnership Adviser, Private Sector Partnerships, Partnerships and External Relations, UNAIDS
