Can Business Help Build International Harmony?
Mr. Georg Kell, UN Global Compact Executive Director, to brief journalists on a Global Corporate Sustainability Report and the forthcoming Global Compact Leaders Summit, to be held in New York on 19-20 September. [UN Photo/JC McIlwaine] The United Nations Global Compact Says, “Yes, Indeed!” By John Paluszek Is “Business For Peace” a non-sequitur? Not at all, especially for all who participated in the United Nations Global Compact’s “Business For Peace” launch event during the Compact’s mid-September “2013 Leaders Summit” in New York City. The two-day Summit — with some 1,500 registrants and high-level plenary sessions, special event programs and an “action fair” examining and advancing virtually every aspect of global sustainability – was a testimony to the Compact’s current impressive trajectory and velocity. The Compact now comprises some 8,000 companies around he world, all committed to operate in concert with its ten principles in environment, social ...