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On Saturday morning, 18 November, participants at
the three-day Global Responsibility Founding Forum attended one
or several of eight workshop sessions on sustainability-related
themes. The workshops addressed: (1) Benchmarking as an
incentive for corporate performance improvement; (2) NGOs:
allies and adversaries; (3) Social and environmental concerns as
a driving force for investment; (4) Prevention is better than
cure: a look at the healthcare sector; (5) The growing market
for responsible sports; (6) Towards sustainable development and
tourism: intermediaries communicating responsibility; (7)
Communicating social and ethical issues; and (8) From
environmental to sustainable product related communications.
In
the afternoon, participants gathered for the closing session.
Javed Ahmad, Global Responsibility CEO, underscored his pride in
the overall quality of the Forum and, on an emotional level, his
sense that something important and of great potential was
underway. Ulrich Goluck, spoke on “trust and service in
a transparent world.” He stressed the importance of
value-based commerce and closed by saying that we are learning
to live by creating and exchanging trust and service.
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For
Sustainable Developments' full summary of this event, in a
format of your choice, please click on the links below.
You
will find images and RealAudio coverage of
each of the days listed, by clicking on the link to that day (underneath
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Ivo
Knöpfel, Head of Research, Sustainable Asset Management.
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Franz
Knecht, Founder / Managing Partner, ConNexis.
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| Halina
Ward discusses the emerging agenda of corporate social responsibility
in the context of globalization, particularly with respect to
NGO concerns regarding the impacts of globalization. |
Halina
Ward, Royal Institute for International Affairs.
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Javed
Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer of Global Responsibility.
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Javed
Ahmad closes the Global Responsibility Founding Forum,
underscoring his pride on a professional level in the overall
quality of the Forum and, on an emotional level, his sense that
something important and of great potential was underway. |
| Jonathan
Bendit describes the development of SHEiiBA (Safety health and
environment intra industry benchmarking associations), a
collaborative benchmarking tool that allows information exchange
between companies. |
Jonathan
Bendit, Director of Corporate Benchmarking Services.
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Stakeholder
role players.
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Kay
Sexton, Executive Director, AccountAbility, co organizer of
workshop session
featuring
a “crisis” role playing activity.
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Participants
were presented with the fictional situation of a UK-based
company, “Sports Unlimited”, that has just learnt that a TV
programme will expose the company’s labor practices in its
tennis racquet factory in Africa. The programme will show that
young male workers work at below national minimal wages and that
the factory manager has confiscated their passports.
Participants role-played in two groups: members of the company
board at a meeting to discuss their response to the crisis; and
company stakeholders, such as investors, shareholders, and a
human rights NGO, at a meeting to discuss their response to the
situation. |
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Company
board of directors role players.
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Martin
Charter, Center for Sustainable Product design at the Surrey
Institute of Art & Design, University College.
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Image
from the workshop on "environmental to sustainable product
related communication." |
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Manfred
M�hlberger, Healthcare Without Harm.
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Participants
at the workshop on "Towards sustainable travel and
tourism."
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David
Stubbs, Executive Director, Committed to Green Foundation.
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Participants
at the closing of the Forum.
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Eva
L�vbrand, Global Responsibility Event Coordinator.
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Ulrich Goluck.
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Ulrich Goluck closes the Forum with a speech on �trust
and service in a transparent world.� |
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The
Sustainable Developments Team:
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Richard
Campbell. |
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Jonathan
Krueger.
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David
Fernau, a delegates view. |
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