CONFERENCE: UN Global Compact Leaders Summit: Building a new era of sustainability
24-25 JUNE 2010 | NEW YORK
Organizer: United Nations Global Compact
Event dates: 24-25 June 2010
Venue: NEW YORK
The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 will bring together leaders from all sectors to elevate the role of responsible business and investment in bringing about the needed transformation to more sustainable and inclusive markets. This invitation-only event will occur on 24-25 June, 2010 in New York.
Our world is at a critical juncture
Future advances in global integration, poverty reduction, protection of our planet and, ultimately, peace critically depend on our ability to collectively address the most pressing global challenges. Accelerating the practice of corporate sustainability and responsibility is an urgent task in these complex times, when crises – from financial market break downs to environmental degradation – are increasingly global and connected. The stakes could not be higher, given that climate change threatens the security of food, water and energy – the interlocking resource pillars which underpin prosperity and the productivity of the economy. Putting long-term sustainability, comprehensive risk management and ethics at the top of the corporate agenda must be a priority for business everywhere.
Building a new era of sustainability
The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 will provide the platform for business to convene, collaborate and commit to building a new era of sustainability. At the Summit, business leaders will tackle priority areas that are central to corporate leadership today and essential for the transformation to sustainable markets – and ultimately the protection of our planet and the livelihoods of future generations:
- Comprehensively integrating principles into business strategy, operations and governance
- Connecting sustainability issues and actions
- Tackling climate change and the Millennium Development Goals
- Scaling up collective action and public-private partnerships
- Building support for effective global frameworks
- Leveraging investors and educators as ESG (environmental, social, governance) change agents
Celebrating ten years
Marking the 10th anniversary of the UN Global Compact’s launch, the Leaders Summit 2010 will highlight milestones, champions and best practices which have helped to advance the corporate responsibility agenda and contributed to UN goals – making the UN Global Compact the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative with 7,000 signatories in 135 countries. While the global context and rationale for corporate responsibility has shifted since launching the UN Global Compact in 2000, the vision remains the same: for companies everywhere to integrate universal principles into their strategies, operations and culture, thereby having a profound effect on United Nations goals, particularly the Millennium Development Goals.
Sponsorship opportunities
Only through generous financial sponsorship will it be possible for the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 to bring together leaders from across the globe to address pressing sustainability issues and showcase best practices, with the goal of accelerating wider adoption of universal principles by business. Sponsorship opportunities are open to companies with a commitment to sustainable and responsible practices through the UN Global Compact. Specifically, all Leaders Summit sponsors must have consistently completed an annual Communication on Progress (COP), or other similar reporting mechanism if a COP deadline has not yet passed, and have demonstrated leadership in the UN Global Compact. Sponsorship slots will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.