HOW CLIMATE CHANGE WILL AFFECT FOOD SECURITY Throughout the world, poor people are becoming poorer as a result of failing food systems and changing climates. For many more, the buffer provided by regular employment and a steady income is being eroded by the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. As millions more become poor, […]
Has the Triple Bottom Line Failed, Mr. Elkington? “No” would be my one-word answer to the editors’ question. Indeed, the very fact that the editorial team of the International Global Compact Yearbook decided to commission this essay – some 15 years after the genesis of the “triple bottom line” agenda – itself speaks volumes. […]
William Jefferson Clinton I am pleased to contribute to the 2010 International Yearbook as it commemorates the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Global Compact. When it was established in 2000, the UNGC ushered us into the new millennium with clear guidelines for engaging the global marketplace in socially responsible business practices. In the […]
Make or Break Year for Biodiversity Climate change has been described as the biggest market failure of all time – the loss of biodiversity and nature’s economically-important services must surely be running a close second, if not an equal first. Year in and year out, the world economy may be losing services from forests […]
Everyone Benefits from a Better World: The Role of Business in Society Georg Kell Executive Director United Nations Global Compact Fifteen years ago, it was the fragile nature of the relationship between business and society that led the UN Secretary-General to propose that business and the United Nations jointly initiate a “global compact […]