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.
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.
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.
Themes
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.
Themes
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Themes
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
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
Themes
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.
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.
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.
Themes
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.
Themes
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.
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).
Themes
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.
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.
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.
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
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: A Changing World: Business as Unusual 
