12th International Business Forum (IBF) 2007.
Business Engagement for Governance and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Washington D.C. October 2007.
Objective:
The forum focused on the role private business can and should play in shaping tomorrow's global governance structures, and suggested corresponding adjustments required by the public sector.
- Business Actions on Climate Change
- Private Sector Roles in Combating Corruption
- Lessons from Business Contributions to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Outcomes:
The Forum highlighted practices of companies, as individual stakeholders and in partnership, that are conducive to viable global governance structures and support dynamic and broad-based economic development. Results from the working groups, are:
- Climate Change: The Impact on Corporate Strategy
- Small and medium enterprises as a source of innovation
- Finance sector and climate change
- From Macro to Micro and Back: Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change
- Accounting and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Corporate Sector: What Gets Measured, Gets Managed
- Combating Corruption: Setting One's Own Standards
- Promoting Transparency in the Extractive Industry: The Case of Nigeria
- Are Partnerships a Path to Good Governance?
- The Recovery of Stolen Assets: A Mechanism to Counter Corruption
- Business Associations in the Fight Against Corruption
- Lessons from the Discussion on Business and MDGs
- Sustainable Production in Low and Middle Income Countries
- The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Small and Medium Enterprises: Using the Examples of Denmark, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Hand-in-hand: Tapping Expertise to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
- Business and Nutrition: Reaching 4 Billion Poorest
Position:
Delegate representative in workshops / working groups and plenary sessions.
Summary:
12th IBF - Top10-Priorities (Business & MDGs_WBI-Inwent).pdf