Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum

Agenda

14 June, 2012
15 June, 2012
16 June, 2012
17 June, 2012
18 June, 2012

14 June, 2012

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Opening Session (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME
Description	The 3rd Global Forum for Responsible Management Education is the official platform for management-related higher education institutions at both the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20. This session will underscore the critical need for increased adoption and action to advance responsible management education and leadership. By invitation only.
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2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Business Capabilities for Achieving Sustainable Development (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME
Description	This session will reveal current trends and potential pathways to achieve sustainable development. Global leaders will help identify top priorities for the next twenty years and make the case for urgent change and collaboration necessary to achieve the future we want. Higher education institutions have a unique role to spearhead this process by providing thought leadership and by training responsible leaders for the future we want. A plenary session will be followed by roundtable discussions focused on the question: How does sustainable development affect management education? By invitation only.
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6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Cocktail Reception (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME, Global Compact Network Brazil
Description	The reception is organized and supported by the Academic Commission of the Global Compact Network Brazil and Brazilian PRME signatories, with special thanks to the sponsors: Business School São Paulo, EBAPE/FGV, ESPM, Fundação Dom Cabral, ISAE/FGV, PUC Rio, SENAI/PR, and UFPR. By invitation only.

15 June, 2012

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Setting the Incentives for Responsible Management Education (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME
Description	This session will review the external factors that facilitate change within the global business/management school system and the challenges of managing those change processes. Key drivers of these processes will be covered, including: accreditation and rankings; student demand; political/legislative change affecting curricula and funding at the national level. A plenary session will be followed by roundtable discussions focused on the question: What are the external incentives (e.g., accreditation, rankings of business schools), and how can they further support the values of sustainable development and responsible management education? By invitation only.
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12:00 PM - 4:30 PM

The X Annual Local Networks Forum (Invitation Only)

Partners

Global Compact

Description

The Annual Local Network Forum (ALNF), as a vital part of the Global Compact’s governance framework, is the primary occasion for Local Networks from around the world to convene, share experiences, learn from each other and to network. This year’s ALNF will feature an overview of Global Compact networks and their role in the development of the initiative in the preceding year. The Forum will also have a forward-looking perspective of network differentiation with the introduction of "Sustainability Hubs". Other agenda items include new proposals by the governance and network funding sub-working groups, as well as discussions on the unique role of networks in facilitating collective action and policy dialogues. There will further be brief discussions to schedule regional meetings to be held later in the year. By invitation only.

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Innovation in Practice (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME
Description	Once a higher education institution begins to integrate the values of the Global Compact and PRME, challenges and opportunities arise around how to adapt its core business model, teaching methods, research, and campus practices. This session will highlight inspirational examples as well as resources and tools for successful implementation of the Principles. A plenary session will be followed by roundtable discussions focused on the question: What are the challenges and opportunities facing individual schools to implement and advance responsible management education and how can PRME support this process? By invitation only.
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3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working Group (Invitation Only)

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only.

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

3rd PRME Global Forum: Closing Session (Invitation Only)

Partners	PRME
Description	This session will identify key recommendations for higher education, business, and government leaders on what is needed to scale up the practices and innovative solutions addressed at the Global Forum. By invitation only.
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Official Opening Ceremony of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Marking the official opening of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, this session will emphasize the critical need for increased uptake and action to advance corporate sustainability. Participants will learn about the Forum objectives and will be presented with existing examples of innovation and collaboration aimed to inspire them as they prepare for the following two days. The Opening Ceremony will be followed by a cocktail reception.
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16 June, 2012

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Building a New Ecosystem for Sustainable Economy

Partners	Global Compact Network Korea
Description	As societal challenges and relationships between stakeholders become more complex, it is recognized that companies and other organizations need to build sustainable business ecosystems to create systematic and longer-term strategies. Korean companies have started to form this business ecosystem to foster innovation for social challenges and create systematic impact. This session will present and discuss collective action of Korean companies in support of the MDGs; case stories of social enterprises to create employment and realize sustainable development; a case story of CSV (Creating Shared Value) in building an inclusive business ecosystem for the health of the community; a case Story of innovative technology contributing to corporate sustainability; and the 5W (World, Weather, Water, Wisdom, Welfare) Project, which aims to address key challenges with a particular focus on weather (global warming) and water shortage through indigenous wisdom and traditional knowledge for the welfare of the people in the world.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Corporate Respect and Support for Human Rights: A Key Foundation for Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact's Human Rights Principles call on business to respect and support human rights as an essential component of corporate sustainability, business' contribution to sustainable development. The corporate responsibility to respect human rights has come into greater focus in recent years, especially the UN Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (June 2011). Avoiding any infringement of the human rights of others and addressing any adverse human rights impacts with which the business is involved, is the minimum required of all businesses everywhere, and an important precondition for sustainable development. To achieve sustainable development, all societal actors have a role to play, thus, in addition to respecting human rights, the Global Compact calls on businesses to take additional voluntary action to support or advance human rights. Such actions may be through core business activities, strategic social investments and philanthropy, advocacy and public policy engagement, and working in partnership and other collective action. With a mix of presentations, discussions and interactive exercises, participants in this session will share and explore concrete ways to ensure that corporate sustainability policies, processes, initiatives and commitments are grounded in human rights for maximum positive impact, especially for women, children, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Double Global Rate of Improvement in Energy Efficiency to Achieve ‘Sustainable Energy for All’

Partners	Global Compact
Description	In line with the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and in cooperation with Caring for Climate, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that would help dramatically increase energy efficiency by 2030. Presentations by companies will highlight examples of innovative technologies, products and services that increase operational efficiencies, reduce resources consumption and increase competitiveness. Discussions with participants will focus on measures that would encourage the private sector to drive investment in energy efficiency measures.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Enterprise 2020: Multi-stakeholder Planning in Ukraine

Partners	Global Compact Network Ukraine
Description	Sustainable development in Ukraine is the concept widely discussed within civil society organizations, businesses and academia. However, there is no national sustainability strategy and even economic strategies tend to focus on short–term or medium-term goals. Realizing the social and environmental challenges as well as opportunities for embracing those, the Ukrainian business community together with civil society organizations launched a unique multi-stakeholder process of defining a vision for the enterprise of the future (with a 2020 target). The process identified acute challenges to Ukraine’s social and economic development, risks for business and ways in which companies can engage to turn these risks and challenges into opportunities. The project grew in scale over time and included all major stakeholders. The example of Enterprise 2020 or, in other words, of the Future we Want exercise is a demonstration of a bottom-up approach to garnering political will to cooperate on sustainable development challenges.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Innovation & Collaboration for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Partners	Global Compact
Description	This introduction to the Agriculture and Food thematic track of the Forum will feature a discussion on how the private sector, in collaboration with other actors, can make a significant contribution to food security and sustainable agriculture. The session will feature companies in the food, agriculture and beverage sectors that implement leading-edge practices, as well as key actors that work in close collaboration with the private sector to advance food security and sustainable agriculture.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Partnering in Innovation for Sustainable Development

Partners	Global Compact Network Italy
Description	The workshop will focus on process innovations, product innovations, organisational innovations and market innovations. The session will showcase successful projects implemented by Italian companies operating in a global context. Recommendations to governments on how to best facilitate these efforts will be made.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Profits and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid

Partners	Business Call to Action
Description	The private sector is an essential partner in advancing sustainable development and meeting the needs of the poor. Many companies operating in the developing world are going beyond traditional models of philanthropy, social investment and CSR to create inclusive business models that engage low-income populations as consumers, producers, suppliers, and distributors of goods and services, and which have the potential to deliver both commercial and social returns. This workshop will demonstrate how inclusive business supports sustainable development, creating both profits and opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Realizing the Value of Responsible Investment

Partners	Global Compact, PRI
Description	This high-level plenary session will showcase progress made in incorporating sustainability in mainstream investments and how the emergence of responsible owners is driving corporate sustainability. The session will also address the long-term logic of responsible investment and the inter-locking role of investors, companies and policy makers in creating more sustainable capital markets.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Sustainable Cities: Global Challenges, Local Solutions

Partners	Global Compact Cities Programme
Description	This session will focus on the power of collaboration between local government, business and civil society as a fundamental platform for tackling complex urban issues and mobilizing solutions across all domains of sustainability. Innovative models will be explored from a range of cities, including Porto Alegre, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Bogota and Rio de Janeiro, as well as a state-wide approach in Brazilian Paranà. All will highlight solutions that can be applied to or adapted for cities and regions facing similar issues.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Sustainable Water Use in Textile Production: A Case for Cooperation

Partners	Government of Sweden
Description	Over the last years, private-sector actors have begun to consider water scarcity as an increasing risk to investments and operations. A growing number of companies acknowledge the importance of proactively developing more sustainable water use patterns to avoid future economic losses due to diminishing and more polluted water resources and tougher legislation. The Sweden Textile Water Initiative (STWI) sets an interesting example of cooperation between competing businesses in the environmental field. The objective is to develop guidelines for sustainable water use, applying an “upstream perspective”. This session will present the outcome of the Sweden Textile Water Initiative and highlight the main lessons learned from the initial phase. Other companies, as well as decision makers, scientists and environmental NGOs will be invited to discuss the challenges and possibilities for corporations to take a proactive role in contributing to water-efficient solutions.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Case for Corporate Sustainability Management and Reporting in Developing Markets

Partners	Government of Switzerland, GRI, Global Compact
Description	As developing markets increasingly attract foreign companies and investors, pressure is building on local businesses to manage risks and opportunities associated with Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti-corruption issues. This session will explore corporate sustainability management and reporting as a tool to improve sustainability performance, to boost local competitiveness, access to international markets and help attract foreign capital.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

A Green Economy through Sustainability Reporting: On Report or Explain and G4

Partners	GRI
Description	How does sustainability reporting link to the Green Economy? How can the outcomes of Rio+20 help ensure that sustainability reporting becomes standard practice globally, triggering greater transparency and accountability of companies worldwide? And how can governments, civil society and business benefit from sustainability reporting? The event will answer these questions from various perspectives, focusing on the new generation of the Global Reporting Initiative's Sustainability Reporting Guidelines – G4 – and the 'report or explain' approach to sustainability reporting regulation.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Board Adoption and Oversight of Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact, PRI
Description	Board adoption and oversight is imperative for exceptional sustainability performance. This session will address the important role of the board of directors in defining sustainability priorities for a company and setting and achieving sustainability goals. Topics addressed will include recruitment of Directors with diverse perspectives, board education on sustainability, and the importance of rewarding sustainability through remuneration schemes. The work and outcomes of the Global Compact LEAD-PRI Taskforce on Incorporating Sustainability into Executive Remuneration, will be featured with the launch of guiding principles to link sustainability to incentive schemes.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Building a Global Union for Sustainability: The Role of Business, Industry and NGOs

Partners	Instituto Ethos
Description	The session will discuss the objectives of the Global Union for Sustainability, the Global Union for Sustainability Principles and modalities for monitoring the Rio+20 outcomes. During the session, organizers will invite participants who identify with the draft Global Union for Sustainability principles to support and commit to the principles.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Double Share of Renewable Energy in the Global Energy Mix to Achieve ‘Sustainable Energy for All'

Partners	Global Compact, UNEP
Description	In line with the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative and in cooperation with Caring for Climate, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that would help double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. Presentations and a panel discussion will highlight the current state of renewable energy, expected growth, and foreseeable challenges. These topics will be addressed in light of specific sectors and innovative technologies within the renewable energy space.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Global Compact Network Egypt Members Best Practices

Partners	Global Compact Network Egypt
Description	In this session sustainability initiatives and projects implemented by local network members will be featured. Each case study focuses on the implementation of one of the issue areas of the Global Compact. During the session company representatives will present a case study and will speak to the evolution of sustainability approaches in their companies since they joined the Global Compact.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Making Sustainability Standards Work for those Most in Need

Partners	Government of Switzerland
Description	The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) will launch its first global report that looks at what standards and certifications are actually achieving. Every month, billions of dollars of products are traded with certifications that are perceived as a proxy for being sustainable. As the market value and importance of these voluntary sustainability standards grows, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that those most in need, namely the rural poor across the developing world, are positively impacted by the concurrent market transition towards “sustainability”. The panel session will provide a summary overview of the finding of the latest impact research on private voluntary standards as well as highlights of what policy makers and the private sector are doing to ensure that the rural poor can benefit from the opportunity presented by growing markets for sustainable products. The objective of the panel is to build support and collaboration for the launch of a global, shared approach to the impact assessment and monitoring of sustainability standards through the adoption of common indicators and reporting standards using the COSA framework.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

The Business and Industry Response to the Sustainability Challenge: Impacts and Opportunities

Partners	Global Compact Network Australia
Description	The session will focus on how the sustainability challenge is being met within the context of the business and industry response and its alignment with developing regulatory and reporting frameworks. The session will provide the Australian perspective, featuring case studies from small and large business signatories and an overview of the sustainability and climate change legal framework that will impact on the Australian economy and environment after 1 July 2012. What is business and industry already doing to meet the sustainability challenge and what challenges remain to be confronted, how are they reporting on it and what are the implications for Local Networks and other CSR and citizenship initiatives? What will be the role of social investment?
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Unlocking Private Investment in Clean Energy: The Role of SMEs in the Developing World

Partners	IADB, AFD
Description	This session will discuss solutions to the challenges facing corporations, financial institutions, investors, project developers and entrepreneurs in entering the low-carbon business space in emerging and developing countries; with a specific focus on the role of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Water Conservation Initiatives across Sectors

Partners	Global Compact Network Indonesia
Description	The session will cover the business contribution to addressing water scarcity in Indonesia and other countries. The condition of the global water crisis will be presented while stressing the importance of global action for water conservation. The Indonesia Water Mandate Working Group will be introduced as well as the collaborative actions it has implemented during 2011-2012 to address water issues. Additionally, best practices from individual water conservation initiatives by Indonesian corporations, global corporations operating in Indonesia, NGOs and other organizations will be presented.
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working Group (Invitation Only)

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Action towards Sustainable Livestock Sector Development

Partners	FAO
Description	The Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development (GAA) is built on the notion that demand growth for livestock products will likely continue for decades as incomes and human population continue to grow. Such demand growth will need to be accommodated within the context of a finite and sometimes dwindling natural resource base, and will be faced with the need to respond to climate change, both through adaptation and mitigation. For this to happen, GAA proposes a change of practices through policy and institutional change, research and development, capacity building and accompanying investments that will lead to efficiency gains in natural resource use and reduced emission intensity, while providing social, economic and health benefits. A GAA is open to all stakeholders who agree with its objectives, its focus areas and the types of action, including information sharing, the development of metrics, resource assessments, technology exchange, capacity building, policy analyses and development, and communication and outreach. Stakeholders agree that the comparative advantage of a GAA lies in the strengthened partnership, interaction, and consensus actions that prevent duplication of effort and that increase its influence on research and development agendas
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Better Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Smallholder farmers comprise a large portion of those people living in poverty throughout the world. To bring them out of poverty, farmers need higher quality crop production and better access to markets. This session will focus on what the private sector is doing to source crops from small farmers and what civil society, government and business are doing collectively to prepare smallholders for the demands of the market.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Business Contribution towards the National Goal for a Low-Carbon Economy

Partners	Global Compact Network Costa Rica
Description	This session will highlight how business has organized in Costa Rica to contribute to the National Carbon Neutral goal for 2021. The Eco Efficiency Work Group, a public-private partnership, provides companies with ongoing advice and tools to evaluate environmental impacts and measure ROI of reduction, mitigation and compensation efforts. The initiative was launched in November 2011 and currently includes 44 companies.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Business Engagement with Indigenous Peoples

Partners	Global Compact
Description	This session will explore the role of corporate respect and support for indigenous peoples' rights in corporate sustainability - business' main contribution to sustainable development. What are the challenges and what are the opportunities? The Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will set the scene, highlighting indigenous peoples' expectations of business, and will be followed by examples of how companies are responding. Companies participating in the Global Compact LEAD-Human Rights Taskforce will present their approach and best practices. The Taskforce will also share findings from its research and mapping of international standards on business engagement with indigenous peoples and seek further input with a view to develop a more coherent and concrete vision of business' role in the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Collaboration and Innovation to Address Urban Poverty

Partners	Global Compact Cities Programme, World Vision
Description	This session tackles the challenge of urban poverty, one of the most pressing issues of this century. It draws on diverse perspectives and successful initiatives of: World Vision, a leading international development agency, and their work in La Paz, Bolivia; the Chocolatào Sustainability Network in slum redevelopment in Porto Alegre, Brazil ; and the Mega-Cities strategy and longitudinal study of Rio's favelas by Dr. Janice Perlman. The session will examine cross-sectoral strategies and the role of business sector engagement.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Communicating ESG Value Drivers at the Investor-Company Interface

Partners	Global Compact, PRI
Description	This session will bring together leading companies and investors to explore good practices and innovations in communicating environmental,social and governance (ESG) value drivers to financial markets - beyond reporting. The session will also feature the initial results of the ESG Investor Briefing project, a joint initiative of the Global Compact and the PRI to pilot a series of high-level investor calls similar to quarterly earnings calls. The pilot calls will serve as a laboratory to explore best practices in integrating ESG in mainstream investor communications.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Corporate Water Stewardship & Innovative Partnerships: An Imperative for Improved Water Resource Mgt

Partners	Alliance for Water Stewardship, Global Compact
Description	Social and environmental standards and certifications have proved to be successful incentives for business to adopt more sustainable practices. Despite this, scaling up social and environmental standards has proved challenging; their impacts remain experienced mainly at a farm or facility level. By emphasizing engagement beyond the fence line the AWS’s International Water Stewardship Standard aims to achieve watershed-level impacts. The approach fits well with tools being developed by the CEO Water Mandate to promote common approaches and collective action, including Water Disclosure Guidelines and the Water Action Hub. This session will explore ways in which the AWS Standard, CEO Water Mandate tools and other initiatives can go beyond their perceived scope (certification and business engagement) and help to stimulate the innovative and cross-sectoral partnerships that are needed to achieve watershed-level sustainability.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Ensure Universal Access to Modern Energy Services to Achieve ‘Sustainable Energy for All’

Partners	Global Compact, UNDP
Description	In line with the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, participants will discuss private sector engagement and public policy measures that will help achieve universal energy access for all by 2030. Presentations and a panel discussion will highlight the innovative resources, technologies, financing, and business models available to achieve energy access for all with a focus on public-private and private-private partnership opportunities. A roundtable session will follow on the topics of: policy barriers and challenges, financing evolution, market conditions and enabling factors, and societal behavioral change.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Foundations for Sustainability Leadership: Responsible Management and Leadership Education

Partners	Global Compact, PRME
Description	Responsible management and leadership education has a crucial role in enabling leaders to embrace the challenges involved in creating a sustainable and equitable world for the future we want. This interactive session will be orchestrated using the collaboratory concept introduced in the Agenda for Management Education for the World by the collaborative project 50+20. Three collaboratories will be built around key issues developed by working groups of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative of the UN Global Compact: Anti-Corruption; Gender equality; and Poverty reduction through business actions. The session aims at strengthening collaboration between academia and business and will work hands-on to develop pragmatic solutions for companies and academia on how to work together on key issues of the UN Global Compact. Corporate participants will have the opportunity to meet with leading management educators and researchers. The collaboratory concept consists of a facilitated discussion around an issue of global relevance of members of a community (business representatives, academics and researchers, students, and thought leaders across disciplines) who meet on equal terms in order to develop a viable solution.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Foundations of Social Investment

Partners	Global Compact, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat
Description	The United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Social Investment (PSI) promote contributions that are purposeful, accountable, respectful and ethical. By distilling best-practices into a set of voluntary principles that guide the ongoing practice of social investment by organizations, the PSI seek to increase the positive impact and scalability of such contributions for the advancement of societies. This session provides an introduction to the PSI and the work of the Principles for Social Investment Secretariat, including the Social Investment Ambassadors and Pioneers programs. The session will also feature the presentation of a new report by the Global Compact LEAD task force on strategic social investment and philanthropy which identifies common challenges and good practices in these areas. Global business representatives will discuss the report and its findings.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Green Chemistry

Partners	UNIDO
Description	The use of Green Chemistry can lead to advancements in innovation, spur economic development, reduce risks to human health and the environment, and deliver return on investment. This seminar will educate, promote and advance the application of green chemistry for sustainable production and consumption and protection of human health and the environment. Speakers will highlight current applications of green chemistry, success stories, and new challenges. Three messages of the seminar are intended to be 1) Educate the current and next generation of business leaders on the fiscal and social value of green chemistry; 2) Better organize an international network to advance science and promote green chemistry applications in business; 3) Quantify and demonstrate the value of green chemistry in the business supply chain, in protecting human health, expanding jobs and reducing or eliminating threats to the environment.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Launch of the Natural Capital Declaration: Perspectives from Senior Executives

Partners	UNEP-FI
Description	The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) represents a pioneering effort by leading financial institutions to commit to work towards integrating natural capital considerations in financial products and services. The declaration also calls upon governments to create frameworks that incentivize the private sector - including the financial sector - to operate responsibly regarding the sustainable use of natural capital. The event will provide an overview of all financial institutions that have endorsed the Natural Capital Declaration through CEO sign-off. Participants also learn first-hand from senior executives of an endorsing bank, investor and insurance firm about the underlying motivations to sign the NCD and how it adds to the conference theme of working towards a green economy. This event, organized by UNEP FI, the Global Canopy Programme, and the Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Centre for Sustainability (FGV-GVces).
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Sustainable Supply Chain: Scaling-up the Impacts of Sustainability Practice

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Managing the social, environmental and economic impacts of supply chains is a key component for sustainable development, and a means for businesses to scale up their sustainability practices. As supply chains have grown in scale and complexity, so have the challenges to managing their sustainability impacts. However, there are also significant opportunities for companies to promote human rights, improve labour conditions, protect the environment and support ethical business conduct. The first segment of this session will showcase leading practices across a variety of sustainable supply chain issues, and look at how these relate to the Rio+20 agenda. The second segment will see the launch of the United Nations Global Compact Quick Self-Assessment & Learning Tool, developed in collaboration with BSR and Maplecroft. The launch will be followed by a BSR-lead workshop session on the Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, which will discuss how supply chain practices are implemented and will identify challenges and solutions supply chain managers may face following Rio+20.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Corporate Action on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services

Partners	Global Compact, IUCN
Description	This session will explore how companies can integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) conservation into their overall corporate sustainability strategies by showcasing best practices and innovative solutions. The main objective of the session is to introduce the Framework for Corporate Action on BES as a way for companies to develop, implement and disclose BES policies and practices in order to address risks, manage impacts, seize opportunities and contribute to social targets. The session will also focus on delivering public policy recommendations to further mainstream BES conservation within the private sector.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Delivering a Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Food and Agriculture

Partners	UNEP, FAO
Description	The event will present the joint FAO/UNEP programme for Sustainable Food Systems, with the support of the Swiss Government. The Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFSP) aims to improve resource use efficiency and reduce the pollution intensity of food systems at all points from production to consumption, while at the same time addressing issues of food and nutrition security. It is supported by the Sustainable Food Systems Task Force on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which is presently made up of 14 national governments, five UN agencies and programmes, eight civil society organizations, and three international business organizations representing 325 firms.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Financing ‘Sustainable Energy for All’

Partners	Global Compact, PRI
Description	Meeting the global clean energy challenge requires unprecedented collaboration between the finance sector and governments. This session will explore how banks, insurance companies, pension funds, energy utilities and governments can work together to finance sustainable energy. The session will highlight practical examples of what has already been financed, and discuss ways of mitigating risk to stimulate further financing.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Global Governance for Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Partners	FAO
Description	This event will convene representatives of FAO and, regional organizations and companies to share their views on strategies and priorities for reinforcing global governance in support of sustainable food and agriculture systems. This session will give an opportunity for the participating organizations and companies to profile flagship initiatives, action agendas, and cooperation mechanisms. This session will focus on global governance, the role of FAO, how governance arrangements can be reformed to better allow the private sector to invest into sustainable production systems and value chains. The new voluntary guidelines initiatives will be discussed as well as private sector participation to the Committee on World Food Security.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Launch of Green Industry Platform

Partners	UNIDO
Description	Green Industry unlocks development opportunities as enterprises improve their resource productivity and environmental performance (greening of industries) and establish new operations that deliver environmental goods and services (creating green industries). The Green Industry Initiative is an initiative of UNIDO aimed at mainstreaming environmental, climate and social considerations into the operations of enterprises around the world. Uniting with the private sector, civil society and governments to support greening of the industrial sector as the main driver of green growth and a global transition to a green economy, UNIDO will launch the Green Industry Platform. This global multi-stakeholder platform aims to (i) mobilize governments, business and research institutions on a global scale to commit to develop a strategy to "green industry" and "create green industries", (ii) strengthen, through the example of successful practices, the green industry global policy agenda in order to contribute to an appropriate intergovernmental framework, (iii) serve as a global forum and develop an Action Agenda for Green Industry.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

One Planet Living: Sustainable Communities and Business from the UK to China

Partners	BioRegional Development Group
Description	One Planet Living is a vision of a sustainable world in which people everywhere can enjoy a high quality of life, while living within the productive capacity of the planet. It is a sustainability framework which takes a people-centred approach based on equity, ecological and carbon footprints, clean production and ten principles for achieving sustainability. This session will introduce participants to the One Planet Living approach and framework, showcasing how it has been implemented in real projects around the world to achieve sustainability in urban areas. Participants will also be introduced to the newly launched One Planet Open Source online learning platform and other available toolkits for implementing the sustainability framework.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Finance and Economics of Sustainable Development in Southern Africa

Partners	Global Compact Network South Africa
Description	The private sector in Southern Africa recognize that Green Economy initiatives will create new opportunities for enterprise development, job creation and the renewal of commercial and residential environments. In particular it is understood that green innovation will play a part in the overall region's sustainable development. But the private sector are faced with a lack of national and regional frameworks, government policies, and innovative 'green' products and services to drive green economy and green jobs initiatives at a faster pace. This session will provide an overview of approaches being taken throughout Southern Africa and will explore synergies and areas for regional cooperation in order to reach scale.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Reconceptualization of Business

Partners	Global Compact, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat, Regional Centre for the Global Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean
Description	This session will mark the launch of a Global Compact / Principles for Social Investment Secretariat discussion paper, ‘The Reconceptualization of Business’, which offers an introduction to the various organizational models through which business contributes to sustainable community development. An international business panel will discuss examples of the ways in which businesses are reorganizing business practices to achieve commercial and broader social development objectives. This session is a joint effort between the Global Compact Office, Principles for Social Investment Secretariat and the Latin American Regional Global Compact Support Center.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Towards a Green and Resilient Economy: Addressing the Climate-Water Nexus

Partners	Global Compact, UNEP
Description	This session will explore how companies can integrate and build effective resilience measures into their business strategies, operations and throughout the value chain. Caring for Climate and CEO Water Mandate companies will offer perspectives on addressing the climate-water nexus and types of government action necessary to increase business engagement and investment in adaptation. Discussions will inform and advance activities, processes, commitments and partnerships that define corporate leadership in adaptation and contribute to building green and climate resilient economies.
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working Group (Invitation Only)

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only.

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Launch of the Green Industry Platform Reception

Partners	UNIDO, UNEP
Description	The evening reception will celebrate the launch of the Green Industry Platform as well as the 20-year anniversary of the Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) programme. Both initiatives are jointly organised by UNIDO and UNEP.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Conscious Consumption, Sustainable Business (Sponsor Session)

Partners

Grupo Pão de Açúcar

Description

This workshop – convened with Instituto Akatu - will gather private enterprises, civil society and governments, aiming at publicly launching 10 steps to build more sustainable consumption and production modes. Based on this reference, participants will co-create more sustainable business models, besides identifying the conditions necessary for their implementation, taking into account changes in consumer’s behavior, public policies and civil society actions necessary to support business materialization.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Mechanisms for Valuating Biodiversity: Challenges and Proposals (Sponsor Session)

Partners

Banco Santander

Description

Biodiversity loss and the decline in ecosystem services affect society (in general) and business. All business sectors impact and depend on biodiversity, which represent risks and opportunities. The integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into core business can create significant added value for companies by reducing costs, developing low-impact technologies and protecting brands. However, this integration represents a challenge for many companies: how can we reduce economic invisibility of nature and evaluate ecosystem costs and benefits?

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

The Future of Health (Sponsor Session)

Partners

Amilpar

Description

Health systems are one of the most complex systems to manage due to the complicated equation: financing x costs x quality x access x increasing and aging population. There are critical problems in developing and developed countries as well as problems in the public and the private sector. We live in a systemic crisis, with local peculiarities, and with a high level of dissatisfaction of all those involved. This session will promote the comparison of visions for the future of health and the valuable experiences of physicians who work in the front-line of health in Brazil (business, government and the third party sector), with replicable solutions in different societies.

17 June, 2012

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

A Changing World: Business as Unusual

Partners	Global Compact Network Pakistan, UN ESCAP, Global Compact Network Bangladesh, Global Compact Network Vietnam
Description	Business as usual is not enough to achieve corporate sustainability. It is clear that if corporate sustainability is to be achieved, business innovation is required. This meeting will feature two social enterprise case studies from the Asia-Pacific region which represent innovative and viable business solutions to environmental or social challenges. Speakers will discuss the components of an enabling environment for corporate sustainability, the motivations for business innovation and the challenges they face. Discussants will also explore the roles of TNCs, SMEs, government, NGOs and consumers in promoting responsible business as well as the effect globalization has had on these different actors in achieving sustainability.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Aligning Business Practice with the Human Right to Water and Sanitation

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Highlighting what companies can and should be doing in practice to respect the human right to water and sanitation, this session aims to introduce a framework for applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to water management. The session will offer a range of good practice measures that companies can be taking to respect and support the right to water.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Anti-Corruption Risk Assessment as Basis for a Sustainable Organisation

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Conducting a periodic, informed assessment of corruption risks is an important step to building a sustainable organisation. With the increased pressure from governments and investors on companies to prevent corruption risks, there is high demand for an integrated and holistic guidance to aid companies in conducting anti-corruption risk assessments for business. This session will introduce the Guidance on Anti-Corruption Risk Assessments, and discuss how robust risk assessment practices can be effectively integrated into company operations.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Business, Peace and Sustainable Development

Partners	Global Compact, PRI
Description	Peace and stability are essential prerequisites for sustainable development, calling on all actors in society to work together to create the peaceful conditions in which business can thrive and make significant contributions. This session will showcase innovative corporate practices contributing to peace and stability. Participants will discuss how such practices can be brought to scale across sectors and geographies. In addition participants will seek to identify additional actions that business should take, and recommendations for governments regarding how they can help business to advance sustainable development in high-risk areas will be articulated.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Children and Business: Making the Connection for Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact, UNICEF, Save the Children
Description	Both as a vulnerable group, but also as important change agents and our future, children are a key stakeholder on the agenda of the Rio+20 Summit. It is in everyone's interest that their well being is ensured, and that the world they grow up in will be a sustainable one. This event will provide an opportunity for business leaders and other stakeholders to explore how their decisions can maximise the positive impacts and minimize the negative impacts on children. Additionally the event will look specifically at how Global Compact Local Networks are advancing children's rights. How businesses can best implement the Children's Rights and Business Principles will be underscored throughout.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Looking Into the Future of Sustainability: An Approach to Sustainable Cities and Renewable Energy.

Partners	Global Compact Network Spain
Description	Recognizing the unique sustainability challenges and opportunities facing cities, many metropolises are incorporating a Smart Cities model to find solutions toward a number of sustainability goals, including efficient resource management and improved quality of life. Smart Cities produces a mutually beneficial global energy model in which communities and businesses can both benefit environmentally and economically from renewable energy production. This event will highlight work being undertaken by companies across Spain to realize the concept of Smart Cities, and the potential of renewable energy in the urban context. The session will include presentations from leading Spanish multinational companies such as Endesa, Telefónica, Agbar, BBVA and Acciona.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Mitigate Risks and Increase Resilience of Small Farmers, Innovative Partnerships and Lasting Impact

Partners	Government of Switzerland
Description	Farmers have traditionally faced important risks related to weather conditions; such risks often prevent farmers in developing countries from moving out from subsistence agriculture and into marketable surpluses. These risks are rising due to climate change. Insurance providers – both with and without partners – have increasingly developed innovative solutions in order to mitigate such risks, including climate index based insurance schemes and the use of information technology. This panel will provide the opportunity for exchange on private sector incentives and interests to enter such markets and will explore, based on concrete cases, innovative forms of public-private partnerships that reinforce lasting scalable impact.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Sustainable Energy for All: Mobilizing Action and Partnerships around ‘High Impact Opportunities’

Partners	Global Compact
Description	To further advance the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative, this roundtable session will discuss the following issues: policy barriers and challenges, financing evolution, market conditions and enabling factors, and societal behavioral change. The results and outcomes of the roundtables will be captured as input to the Corporate Sustainability Forum Outcome Document to be provided to the National Delegation session at the conference.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Business Case for the Green Economy

Partners	Global Compact, UNEP, UNEP-FI
Description	The Business Case for the Green Economy: Opening High-Level Plenary Session (09:00am-10:30am) will gather thought leaders from business, financial institutions and governments who will offer insight and vision on the opportunities and challenges of financing the transition to a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty alleviation. The business case for action, particularly addressing the challenge of finance and initiatives underway will be highlighted.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Role and the Benefit of Voluntary Actions and Programmes

Partners	Global Compact Network Indonesia
Description	This session will highlight best practices of voluntary based actions and programmes that involve Global Compact Network and engage communities. Topics covered will include climate, water; social development, health and economics of sustainable development in line with Global Compact principles. This session will describe the dynamics of stakeholder partnership and role of each stakeholder in such action or programme.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Role of Local Networks for Sustainable Development in Emerging Democracies

Partners	Global Compact Network Bulgaria, Global Compact Network United Kingdom
Description	This session will present two approaches of business-led local networks – in emerging and developed democracies. The approaches highlight companies actively engaging with each other in collective action toward catalytic change. The discussion will map out different paths possible for companies and local networks on the road to sustainable development. Sustainability hubs are management models that develop an enabling environment, enhancing companies' collaboration, communication and interaction on the issue of sustainable development.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Building Markets for Greener Products

Partners	US Environmental Protection Agency
Description	Every day consumers- whether individuals, businesses or institutions- make purchases that leave an “environmental and social footprint.” Countries and other stakeholders are coming together at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development to explore ways to grow our economies while improving living conditions and protecting our environment. The Building Markets for Greener Products initiative seeks to promote more sustainable consumption and production by: a) creating demand through commitments to sustainable procurement and b) promoting the development of open and transparent access to credible data to help green supply chains and products, including through expanded use of product life-cycle data systems and tools.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Building Partnerships for Urban Futures: Leveraging Strengths, Driving Change through Shared Values

Partners	UN-HABITAT
Description	Elevating the urban agenda and dealing with the fastest urbanization rates in history must start by forging the most effective alliances between private, public and social interests around shared values to address urban core challenges and build solutions. This is the essence of the World Urban Campaign, a catalytic and transformative partnership that is meant to engage civil society, the business sector, the research community and Governments in a global movement that elevates the urban agenda through a positive vision and understanding of the tremendous benefits cities can bring. Beyond an advocacy partnership, the World Urban Campaign shall provide the knowledge and action-oriented platform to address the complexity of the urban agenda through an integrated and systemic approach to urban issues. It harnesses the right partners to share converging interests and leverage their strengths and core competencies. The partnership has the in-built capacity to reach the required scale to generate impact in and across cities. Partners of the World Urban Campaign will present their approaches in cities, identify drivers of change, share experiences on how strengths and innovation can be leveraged and shared values be positively harnessed to generate positive change. Speakers include high-level representatives from corporations and their partners at the city level.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Green Gold - Financing the Green Economy

Partners	Global Compact, UNEP, UNEP-FI
Description	Green Gold: Financing the Green Economy (11:00am-12:30pm), thought leaders from financial institutions will offer insight and vision on how the finance sector can support green business and industry, thus catalyzing a corporate transition to the Green Economy.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

How Local Networks are Inspiring Business to Advance Human Rights

Partners	Global Compact Network Australia, Global Compact Network Germany
Description	In this session, local networks will be encouraged to share their recent experiences in advancing the human rights principles of the Global Compact. The session will draw from a comparative analysis of practical and recent local network activities and initiatives, highlighting different strategies, tools and resources currently being used in different countries and regions. This session will build on existing efforts of local networks with the hope of spurring continued collaboration, cooperation and communication.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Integrated Reporting and Innovation: Communicating in the 21st Century

Partners	IIRC, Global Compact Network United Kingdom
Description	Integrated Reporting is transforming the way that companies understand, manage and report on their strategy and performance. In some countries, integrated reporting is already mandatory, in others, companies are seizing the opportunity to innovate and influence the future of corporate reporting. This session will look at how to reap the benefits of a move towards integrated reporting and learn from the challenges others have faced. It will provide practical insights from leading companies and investors, who are incorporating this information into their investment decisions.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Resource Efficiency and Enterprise Competitiveness

Partners	UNIDO, IFC, Government of Switzerland
Description	The programme on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) is a preventive, enterprise-level approach to improving resource use, reducing environmental pollution and contributing to sustainable industrial development. UNEP and UNIDO jointly implement a programme supporting the establishment of National Cleaner Production Centres. Today, there are 48 centres and programmes worldwide. This event will illustrate that RECP is based on the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products and services in order to increase overall efficiency and to reduce risks to human health and the environment. Further, the event will address the financing needs of the manufacturing sector as it seeks to become more resource efficient, reduce its carbon emissions and benefits from the growing market for green products and services. The session will also focus on the cleaner technology and technology transfer aspects related specifically to energy efficiency and climate change mitigation.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Technology and Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Agriculture

Partners	CropLife, World Farmers' Organization
Description	Recent discussions on agriculture have questioned the role technology has played in moving agriculture forward, and what role private and public sectors can play in advancing innovation. At the same time, it has become clear that the uptake gap in best practices and techniques is limiting the impact that new technologies can have on productivity and sustainability. Essential to addressing this gap is a need to put in place the supporting mechanisms to help farmers adopt new techniques and sound management systems. Knowledge sharing mechanisms, such as extension services, need to be revitalized and expanded to ensure innovation reaches farmers' fields and contributes to sustainable agriculture. This session will focus on two ‘sides of the coin’, discussing both the role innovative technologies can play to advance sustainable agriculture and the role of knowledge sharing mechanisms to improve the deployment and uptake of innovations and best practices. Speakers will focus on practical experiences and on the ground examples of how this can be done and of the impacts of innovative methods on farmers’ livelihoods, environment and productivity.
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working Group (Invitation Only)

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Caring for Climate Meeting (Signatories Only)

Partners	Global Compact, UNEP, UNFCCC
Description	A signatories only session to take stock of the progress made within the initiative and to discuss transparency and disclosure efforts, climate change commitments and future C4C activities. Signatories will have the opportunity to provide input to future Caring for Climate priorities and workplan. Invitation only.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Challenges to Financial Inclusion in Brazil (Sponsor Session)

Partners	Bradesco
Description	The panel will address financial inclusion practices that are being developed in Brazil, considering different local circumstances and economic growth with a focus on base-of-the-pyramid approaches. Issues to be discussed include financial education, products and services targeted to low-income populations, and a case study of actions undertaken in the Amazon region.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Emerging Best Practice in Corporate Water Disclosure

Partners	Global Compact
Description	This multi-stakeholder session will discuss and assess the range of water risk and stewardship-related tools and initiatives, so as to gain a coherent shared understanding of the disclosure landscape, which will in turn inform the development of the Mandate's forthcoming Water Disclosure Guidelines.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Framework for Action: Social Enterprise & Impact Investing

Partners	Global Compact, The Rockefeller Foundation
Description	This session will launch the joint Global Compact/Rockefeller Foundation framework for action designed to assist potential impact investors - including large institutional investors and companies in better understanding the rapidly evolving social enterprise sector and how they might engage with it. Discussions will focus particularly on how directing capital to social enterprise can allow companies and investors to achieve financial returns and reach new growth markets while simultaneously fostering socially beneficial impacts. Panellists will showcase the business rationale, strategic considerations and specific modes - such as financial investments, incubation, partnerships and public policy measures - for investors, companies and governments to engage in impact investing. Participants will further discuss ways to carry forward the recommendations for accelerating growth put forth in the framework.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Good Business Models for a Sustainable Future

Partners	ITC
Description	Hosted by Simone Cipriani (ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative), Good Business Models for a Sustainable Future will show that doing good and making profit is possible through inclusive business models. This focused session will engage key players from civil society and various business sectors such as Leonardo Boff, Aminata Traore, Auret van Heerden, Ilaria Venturini Fendi and Oskar Metsavaht, in a debate launching an International Advisory Committee to promote sustainable business partnerships that are fair, green and benefit the poorest of the poor.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Rio Forward: Transformative Solutions for a Green Economy

Partners	Carbon Disclosure Project, The Climate Group
Description	Innovative solutions that address climate challenges and sustainable development goals will be showcased as well as ways of scaling up transformative solutions that enable a rapid transition towards the green economy. Discussions will focus on defining transformative actions and related targets – and the types of commitments needed from various stakeholders – in addition to policy frameworks that will help accelerate these efforts. This session will provide an anchor to inform and advance the transformative solutions workstream of Caring for Climate and The Climate Group
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Standards Driving Sustainability through Financial Markets

Partners	IFC
Description	Developing a green economy will require both the development of new green sectors and a shift in how existing companies do their business. Financial institutions have a significant role to play in both of these areas. Flexible financing can be used to incentivize the development of new sectors and mitigate risks to unlock financing at scale, while environmental and social standards can influence existing businesses to adopt greener practices. This session will explore the role that standards are playing in driving sustainability from the perspective of the financial institution, the regulator and the client.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Sustainability with Integrity: From Organizational Change to Collective Action

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Corruption undermines the positive impacts that a corporation's sustainable practices can achieve. This session will review the impact of corruption on environmental degradation and vulnerable populations. Participants will engage in solutions-oriented discussions to determine how companies can play a positive role in advancing sustainable development by reducing corruption and enhancing anti-corruption measures. The session will explore best practices, including independent corporate actions and collective action approaches.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Sustaining Life on Earth: Innovative Public-Private Partnerships to Combat Ecosystem Services Loss

Partners	Global Compact Network Turkey
Description	This interactive panel session will focus on the need for enhanced collective action to combat biodiversity loss, which is threatening the wellbeing of planet and people alike. Using examples from Europe, Turkey and Africa, the session will highlight innovative public-private partnerships between the UN, government and civil society to mitigate and offset biodiversity impacts and to advance conservation efforts.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Global Compact European Companies Towards Rio+20 and Beyond

Partners	Global Compact Network Italy
Description	European Global Compact Local Networks have produced a best practices collection focused on sustainable development initiatives and programs carried out by European companies to help advance sustainable business models and markets coherently within the lens of Rio+20. The publication, titled “The European UN Global Compact Companies towards Rio+20 and Beyond. A Best Practices Collection”, contains 100 case stories coming from more than 20 countries in Europe. This session will highlight key elements of this resource, and how it can be leveraged to support implementation of business practices that align with sustainable development objectives.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Path to Resource Efficient Cities: Innovation in Action

Partners	UNEP
Description	The session will address the critical importance of cities in building a sustainable future, looking particularly at the building, transport, waste and water sectors. Discussion will focus on the market potential and constraints of current building and city designs; policy trends and financing opportunities for innovative city and building design; and use of common tools (sharing, benchmarking, and aggregating) to better measure city impact on environmental sustainability.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Resource Efficiency Revolution: Decoupling for Change

Partners	UNEP, UNIDO
Description	This session will discuss progress made and existing challenges to the transformation to a low-carbon economy from the perspective of the manufacturing sector, including small and medium-size enterprises.
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2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Transformational Partnerships for Food, Nutrition and Development

Partners	Global Compact
Description	This event will showcase examples of successful collaboration for food and nutrition security. Dialogue will center on ways of addressing public and private objectives while bringing about systemic positive impacts. In addition, this session will offer an opportunity for companies to announce new partnership commitments with UN entities.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Creating Impacts from Clean and Renewable Energy Usage in Rural Economy

Partners	Global Compact Network Nigeria
Description	Showcasing the impact and work of companies and partners in Nigeria, this session will cover efforts to enable switching to clean and sustainable energy sources among the rural poor. The session will review the economic empowerment attributes of some sustainable projects that are hinged on providing access to clean and renewable energy resources in rural settings.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

From 1992 to 2012: 20 Years of Mainstreaming Sustainability in the Financial Sector

Partners	UNEP-FI
Description	This session will highlight progress and trends in embedding sustainability issues into financial institutions - a critical component of delivering a truly green economy. 20 years of UNEP FI will be assessed, and participants will evaluate future challenges in integrating ESG issues into the daily operations, processes and policies within three pillars of the financial services sector: lending, investment and insurance.
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Lighting the Clean Revolution: Business and Transformational Change in an Urban Environment

Partners	The Climate Group
Description	The Climate Group, in partnership with Philips Lighting, will launch the "Lighting the Clean Revolution" Report and announce a commitment to an international outdoor lighting standard. The session will explore the global energy efficiency opportunity presented by LEDs, as well as highlight examples of city leadership on technology deployment. In addition, there will be discussion of work undertaken in low-carbon planning in China (China Redesign), and the smart technologies for low-carbon urban planning (Smart Cities).
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Secure Food Systems, Drivers for a Sustainable Tomorrow

Partners	UNEP, FAO
Description	This session will: 1) highlight the direct interdependencies between food insecurity and global food systems, 2) identify key areas in which business and industry can support systemic change to more sustainable food systems, and 3) showcase the business case for taking action – highlighting opportunities, challenges (including finance) and initiatives already underway.
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5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Global Compact LEAD Reception

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Representatives of Global Compact LEAD participants are invited to attend a networking cocktail reception on the roof of the Windsor Barra Hotel from 5.30-7.30pm.

5:45 PM - 7:15 PM

Partnerships for Sustainable Growth (Sponsor Session - Invitation Only)

Partners	Anglo American
Description	This session will describe partnerships for sustainable growth on the ground in real projects. It will also explore how such partnerships between stakeholders can be taken to the next level to foster green growth, covering the environmental, social and economic dimensions of the sustainability mix. By invitation only.
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

10th Meeting of the Global Compact Anti-Corruption Working Group (Invitation Only)

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The Global Compact Working Group on the Tenth Principles against Corruption will meet on the topic of embedding compliance, ethics and integrity for the future we want. By invitation only.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Education on Sustainable Development: How to Engage the Consumer (Sponsor Session)

Partners

Whirlpool

Description

An important agent of the new “green economy” is the consumer. Every day new rules, politics, products, technologies, innovations are casted with focus in sustainability aspects. How can consumers get informed on all of these concepts? Which kind of information is useful for them to adopt new habits? How should companies, press and regulation councils contribute to increase their sustainability knowledge? In this session we will discuss these questions and which are the ways to engage consumers in sustainable development.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

UNEP-FI 20th Anniversary Celebration: Special Focus on Latin America

Partners	UNEP-FI, Itaú Unibanco
Description	A cocktail reception celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the UN Environment Programme Finance Intiative, jointly hosted by UNEP-FI and Itau Unibanco.
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18 June, 2012

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Accelerating Green Growth through Public-Private Partnerships

Partners	3GF, Global Compact
Description	Existing PPP’s for green growth will explore the role PPP’s can play in reducing information, policy and behavioral barriers to scaling green growth investment. Innovations and best practices will be shared as well as lessons learned..
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Activities and Challenges to Promote Innovation for Sustainable Development

Partners	Global Compact Network Japan
Description	This session will gather executives from leading Japanese businesses to discuss innovative approaches that their companies are taking to advance sustainable practices and to contribute to addressing global sustainable development challenges. Representing Finance, Food and ICT sectors, each presenter will highlight forward-looking approaches and solutions to ensuring a positive impact of their strategies and operations. The emerging practices highlighted will initiate a conversation among the chief executives regarding the types of collaborative actions needed in Japan to build a better, more sustainable society throughout the region.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Business Leadership and the Role of Cooperation in Sustainable Development

Partners	Global Compact Network Brazil
Description	The annual event of the Global Compact Network Brazil will gather business leaders, public authorities and government representatives. Recognizing that sustainability leaders value cooperation - both in business management and in advancing the sustainable development agenda - making their companies more competitive and profitable, and at the same time preserving resources and enhancing human development, the event will address the key role played by business in influencing consumption patterns towards a more sustainable future.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

CEOs and NGOs Views on Innovation for Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact Network France
Description	The Chairmen/CEOs of GDF SUEZ, SCHNEIDER Electric and TOTAL will debate these strategic issues with three top representatives of civil society. They will share experiences, practices and present innovations in the areas of shareholder dialog and partnership with NGOs and social entrepreneurs. The conditions and the innovations required to implement shared value creation will be discussed. After three joint presentations, CEOs and NGOs will answer questions from the audience. This session is organized as a dynamic workshop on social dialogue and how to build it up.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Changing the World through Fashion

Partners	Global Compact Nordic Network
Description	Building on the world’s largest event on sustainable fashion held in Copenhagen on 3 May 2012 (The Copenhagen Fashion Summit) this session will explore the results of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and discuss how policy-recommendations from the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) Consumer project and The NICE Code of Conduct and Manual for the Fashion and Textile Industry will influence the global industry. Furthermore, the session includes insights from sustainable fashion leaders and concrete cases from luxury and high-street fashion, the designer, the solution provider and the producer.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Cities at the Heart of the Future We Want

Partners	UNITAR
Description	This panel will highlight cities growing interest to initiate dialogue with business sectors in view of elaborating frameworks that would provide enabling environments conducive to sustainability and social responsibility. This session will present contributions from the City of Antwerp, host of the world 2nd largest petrochemical port and the world diamond centre; the City of Atlanta, host of the world largest airport; the City of Guayaqil and Veolia Environment.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Enabling Achievement of Water Sustainability Objectives: Collective Action & the Water Action Hub

Partners	Global Compact
Description	The case for collective action is built on the premise that water-related risks are shared between business, government, communities, and the environment, and that equitable processes through which all affected parties can come together and contribute to mitigating these shared risks is a powerful tool for combating this century’s emerging water issues. This premise leads directly to a “shared-risk, shared action model” whereby common problems that pose risks to businesses, governments, civil society can best be addressed through joint efforts that generate common understanding, strategies, and solutions – essentially “shared value.” This session will profile the CEO Water Mandate’s Water Action Hub as an enabling platform to help companies understand their options for collaborating with others on water issues, and who they can work with in a particular geography to address shared risk. The session will orient around a facilitated multi-stakeholder discussion of the merits and challenges of water-related collective action and partnerships more generally.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Enabling Green and Inclusive Markets: A Case for Public Private Collaboration

Partners	DCED, Global Compact
Description	The session will give policy makers and the private sector a unique opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art approaches in facilitating green and inclusive businesses through an improved enabling environment. Participants will have the opportunity not only to get inspiration from thought-leading practitioners, researchers and policymakers but also to get a glimpse on first-hand-experience from promising approaches to public-private collaboration. Results from a study on policy measures to create synergies in promoting green growth and inclusive businesses will be presented during the session .
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

From Responsibility to Investment: Accelerating Social Enterprise (Sponsor Session)

Partners	SK
Description	With the launch of the Framework for Action for Impact Investment and Social Entrepreneurship, an opportunity has been prepared to stimulate thinking for promoting social entrepreneurship from the corporation’s point of view. This session aims to deepen the discussion on how a corporation could engage with social enterprises. Panellists will showcase their experiences in promoting social enterprises in the global context and will stimulate thinking on the role of corporations in nurturing the eco-system and building the infrastructure for social enterprises. Panel discussion followed by floor interaction will conclude with suggestions for expediting corporate social participation by transforming its approach from responsibility towards investment.
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Partnerships for Globally Sustainable Agriculture

Partners	Global Compact Local Network Malaysia
Description	The panel will present a key partnership initiative that has been developed as a basis for sustainable agriculture: Responsible Sourcing Guidelines (RSGs) deliver supply-chain visibility to buyers based on reputational strengths of companies involved and precise mapping of sources and logistics between producers and markets. This is a complimentary approach to the certification-based systems that have proven successful for major transnational companies, but are too costly for smallholders and other players that form the bulk of production systems. The panel invites comments from two governments with significant domestic as well as export-driven agricultural industries. The session learning is rounded off with a view from a key UN agency on how RSGs, based on both trust and evidence, are a sound basis for public-private partnerships in food production.
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9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Sustainable Stock Exchanges 2012 Global Dialogue

Partners	Global Compact, UNCTAD, PRI, UNEP-FI
Description	This full-day event will explore how stock exchanges can work together with investors, regulators and companies to enhance corporate performance and transparency on ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) issues. Building on previous SSE dialogues in New York (2009) and Xiamen, China (2010), this event will focus on the role of the world’s exchanges in encouraging responsible, long-term investment and creating sustainable financial markets. For more information on the SSE initiative, please visit www.SSEinitiative.org.
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Tourism for Tomorrow’s Green Economy/Sustainable Tourism

Partners	World Travel and Tourism Council, Global Compact Network Sri Lanka, Global Compact Network Malaysia
Description	The focus of this session will be to share travel and tourism perspectives of sustainability at all levels. Key challenges and progress that has been made will be presented as well as the steps that need to be taken by the industry as a whole. The key themes to be discussed will include the business case for sustainability, innovation, community engagement, collaboration, accountability and responsibility. In addition, local and regional perspectives on sustainable tourism will be shared, and examples of policy initiatives that have an impact on the environmental social and economic aspects of sustainability will be provided.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Driving Inclusive and Green Growth in Agriculture through Public-Private Collaboration Platforms

Partners	Global Compact, Government of Denmark, UNDP
Description	This plenary session will focus on the need for enhanced and more systematic public-private collaboration for sustainable agriculture. It will examine how country level public-private collaborative platforms can catalyze change in terms of ensuring empowerment and inclusion as well as improving sustainability and competitiveness in key value chains. The discussion will draw on country level public-private platforms and will present how these efforts could be scaled up, with the aim of mobilizing broad support and commitments.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Leadership for a Clean Revolution

Partners	The Climate Group
Description	Speakers will review the role of leadership on the transition to a low-carbon economy, including examples of successful leadership today, analysing the drivers of this leadership and reviewing the characteristics of leading organisations. The event will further discuss the mission and objectives of the Clean Revolution Campaign, a major initiative by The Climate Group, the UN and the World Bank. At this event, a report will be released on the state of leadership in the clean revolution.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Sustainia: Building the World of Tomorrow

Partners	Sustainia
Description	Sustainia is a vision of what a sustainable world would look like and be like to live in – based on facts, solutions and available technologies. Sustainia builds on ready and available solutions and best practices with a focus on the way we communicate, engage and collaborate in order to transform our society. In this session, partners will lay out the model behind Sustainia and will engage participants in a discussion on the forward-looking actions necessary to make Sustainia a reality.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Understanding Effective Water-related Collective Action in Practice

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Corporate water stewardship has emerged as a response strategy to water risk. Stewardship helps companies identify and manage water-related business risks, and through collective action, allows them to contribute to and help enable more sustainable management of shared freshwater resources. This session will explore the key aspects of successful collective action in practice, focusing on companies’ experiences with on-the-ground engagements and partnerships.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Women's Empowerment Principles: Local Opportunities to Turn Principles into Progress

Partners	Global Compact, UN Women
Description	This session will explore country-level opportunities for UN Global Compact Local Networks, local UN Women offices and National Committees, governments, civil society organizations, businesses and others to take action to promote the gender dimension of corporate sustainability. A key tool in this regard are the Women's Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women, offering seven concrete steps business can take to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community.
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CEO Water Mandate Endorser Planning Meeting (Invitation Only)

Partners

Global Compact

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The endorser-only meeting will provide an opportunity for endorsers and the Mandate Secretariat to identify and digest key learnings from the Forum's sessions and discuss the development of the Mandate’s ongoing projects (Water Action Hub, Guide to Aligning Business Practice with the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, Water Disclosure Guidelines, etc.). It will help plan administrative aspects of the initiative and determine immediate next steps, such as its upcoming sessions at Stockholm World Water Week (August 2012) and the date and location of its next annual multi-stakeholder working conference. By invitation only.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Women and Sustainable Development: The Role of Business (Invitation Only)

Partners

Global Compact Network Brazil, UN Women

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This high-level lunch with Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, will bring together top executives to highlight how business can maximize its contribution to sustainable development by placing women at the heart of all corporate sustainability efforts and taking concrete steps to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The practical guidance offered by the Women's Empowerment Principles - Equality Means Business, a joint initiative of UN Women and The UN Global Compact, will be promoted. This lunch is by invitation only and being co-hosted by the Brazilian Global Compact Network and UN Women Brazil & Southern Cone. By invitation only.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Energy+: An International Initiative to Leverage Commercial Investments and Climate Finance

Partners	Government of Norway
Description	Transformational change will be required to increase access to modern energy, improve energy efficiency and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To provide universal modern energy access by 2030, annual investment needs to average more than 5 times the current level of USD 9 billion. ODA is insufficient to meet this need. The public sector, including multilateral and bilateral institutions, needs to use its funds and tools to leverage commercial investments and to develop effective public-private community partnerships. Results-based financing can be used to create required incentives to improve the enabling environment for commercial investments in the energy sector. Emerging lessons from dialogue with the private sector will be presented at the event, and the question of how climate finance could potentially become a major source of finance for renewable energy development will be addressed.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Gender Equality for Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact, UN Women
Description	Despite increased efforts, corporate sustainability and gender equality concerns often remain disconnected. This session will explore how business can maximize its contribution to sustainable development by prioritizing and integrating gender equality and women's empowerment as key components of corporate sustainability. Examples of concrete, innovative business approaches and practices in this area will be highlighted.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

New Geographies of Corporate Sustainability

Partners	Global Compact, Global Compact Local Network Brazil, Global Compact Local Network India, Global Compact Network China
Description	A economic power has been shifting towards high-growth and emerging economies such as China India and Brazil, this session will highlight innovations, approaches and perspectives on corporate sustainability in emerging economies, which are bound to have significant impact on the global corporate sustainability discourse and practice. Based on research and the discussions at workshops convened by Global Compact LEAD and Global Compact Local Networks in the Spring of 2012, this session will test and enrich the insights gained from the workshops, and capture emerging market solutions presented during the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum itself. By delving into cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, this session will also explore the unique role businesses play in emerging markets to drive innovation and forge partnerships that contribute to sustainable development.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Responsible Water Management Practices in Conflict-Affected & High-Risk Areas

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Conflict and high-risk areas pose a variety of threats to society, natural resources and to businesses with operations there. The ways in which companies manage both land and water resources can have either positive or negative impacts – both on their business and society more broadly. Through responsible business practices, companies can manage risks and play an important role in contributing to peace and sustainable development. This session will highlight how companies can make a positive contribution to the sustainable management of water in high-risk operating environments where the implications of their actions or inactions are much more pronounced. The CEO Water Mandate will present a new framework for understanding the nature of water challenges in conflict-affected/high-risk areas and how these affect business.
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Sweet Spot: Cocoa’s Promise of Sustainability, Equity, Profitability for Smallholders & Business

Partners	IFAD
Description	This event will showcase examples of successful business relationships in the cocoa sector that benefit both smallholders and business. It will examine the key success factors and challenges in these experiences and the extent to which these experiences in the cocoa sector could be replicated or scaled up in other settings. The event will show that “success” should be defined by its sustainability, which in turn should be understood in its three dimensions: social, environmental and economic. The event will highlight the policies and practices that have proven effective in supporting and galvanizing innovative commercial relations between smallholder farmers in developing countries and markets for sustainable products, through the promotion of climate-smart, organic, and fair trade practices. These have brought economic benefits for smallholder farmers, environmental benefits to the land under production, and social returns through strengthened communities and empowered individuals. The event will be opened and moderated by the President of IFAD, Mr. Kanayo F. Nwanze. Presenters will share their experiences of working in partnership to develop sustainable agricultural practices in the production of cocoa through IFAD-supported projects in Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, and Indonesia.
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4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Compact 4 Rio: High-Level Closing Plenary

Partners	Global Compact
Description	Compact 4 Rio will convene chief executives from business, leaders from civil society, Government, and the United Nations together with Forum participants to distil the outcomes of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum and will provide the opportunity to identify key policy recommendations to government leaders on what is needed to scale up innovation and public-private collaboration in support of sustainability goals. The session will also serve as a launching ground for new innovative and action-oriented commitments which will contribute to advancing the sustainability agenda. To maximize dialogue, participants will be seated at thematic roundtables with peers representing the multi-stakeholder nature of the event. The session will be followed by a Closing Cocktail Reception from 19.00-22.00 at the Windsor Barra Hotel.
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