25 Jun 2010

NY / GLOBAL COMPACT CLOSER

The Global Compact meeting ends today in New York – the UN initiative seeks to foster socially responsible business practices and has become the world’s largest and most ambitious project of its kind with at least 8,000 participants. UNTV / FILE

Posted at: June 25, 2010 4:53 pm

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STORY: NY / GLOBAL COMPACT CLOSER
SOURCE: UNTV / WORLD BANK / FBC MEDIA
TRT: 2.00
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

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25 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, dais
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert C. Orr, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning:
"This is this next stage of the Global Compact - call it the next decade - is extremely important for the UN. It gets to the heart of our new business model at the UN. Moving into 21st century problems, we will not be able to solve them without the kind of multi stakeholder approach represented by the Global Compact."

FILE - WORLD BANK - MAY 2008, INDIA

3. Wide shot, port with cranes

FILE - WORLD BANK - FEBRUARY 2010, MOZAMBIQUE

4. Med shot, cargo unloading in big nets

25 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals:
"We don't have development without environmental sustainability; we can't have environmental sustainability without development, and this actually go hand-in-hand. That may seem paradoxical, but unless we have orderly communities with improving living standards we are going to have a wrecked environment even more. So, we need to put the two parts together of sustainability and I think this conference made a major advance on that."

FILE - FBC MEDIA – 15 OCTOBER 2009, DEZHOU, SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA

6. Wide shot, truck entering China Solar Valley
7. Wide shot, people installing solar panels on the roof of Sun Moon Mansion

FILE - DONG – SEPTEMBER 2009, DENMARK

8. Various shots, offshore wind-farm

25 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals:
"Some of the things that need to be done, for example, for the world's poorest people to fight disease are not money making ventures but they definitely involve companies, because the companies have the technologies and the expertise that needs to be mobilized. That leads inevitably to models of public-private partnerships where companies are ready to do things that might not be of business interest, but are not philanthropy either."

27 JUNE 2008, HAIN LIFESCIENCE, GERMANY

10. Various shots, laboratory worker carrying out preparations for MDR-TB using the new molecular line probe assay test

STORYLINE:

The third Global Compact Leaders Summit concluded today (25 June) following its third session on the business contribution to development, moderated by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to the United Nations (UN)  Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
 
In the Summit's closing session, participants adopted, by acclamation, a "New York Declaration by Business," pledging to renew their commitment to the Global Compact principles, deepen their engagement, and strengthen their support for critical development goals, and increase transparency and dialogue.

At a press conference at the end of the summit, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning, Robert Orr, told reporters that the next stage of the Global Compact "is extremely important" as it "gets to the heart" of the organization's "new business model."

He added that it will not be possible to solve 21st century problems "without the kind of multi stakeholder approach represented by the Global Compact."

Sacks said that this conference made a major advance in establishing that "we don't have development without environmental sustainability" and "we can't have environmental sustainability without development" and added that "unless we have orderly communities with improving living standards we are going to have a wrecked environment."

He told reporters that "companies have the technologies and the expertise that needs to be mobilized" to - for example - fight disease in the world's poorest countries, and that "leads inevitably to models of public-private partnerships where companies are ready to do things that might not be of business interest, but are not philanthropy either."

The Declaration calls on governments to "cultivate enabling environments for entrepreneurship and innovation" and to set clear regulatory signals, especially on climate change.