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What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? This video clip tries to give competent but also entertaining answers to this question. The video is part of series "in a little green bag" at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. more[...]
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Water and Millennium Development Goals
During a press conference at UN Headquarters, Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden is presenting the impact of Water on the Millennium Development Goals. more[...]
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Usefulness of Corporate Citizenship Concept - Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon is the Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. In this clip, Professor Moon discusses the usefulness of Corporate Citizenship concept. more[...]
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Global Compact Launches Web Platform to Mobilize Business for Rio+20
New York, NY – January 23, 2012 – The UN Global Compact today launched a new website – compact4rio.org – in support of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum: Innovation & Collaboration for the Future We Want, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 15-18 June 2012. Organized by the Global Compact in cooperation with the Rio+20 Secretariat, the UN System and the Global Compact Local Network Brazil, the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum aims to strengthen the business contribution to sustainable development globally – seeking to bring greater scale to responsible business practices, to advance and diffuse sustainable innovation, and to stimulate broader collaboration between companies, governments, civil society and the UN. more[...]
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Sanitation campaign in Indian village starts with women and youth
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)UNICEF correspondent Atul Kumar reports from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on a campaign that tackles defecation in the open. more[...]
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Roma: Breaking the Poverty Cycle
The Roma, traditionally known as Gypsies around the world, have endured a life of exclusion and poverty. According to the UN Population Fund, UNFPA, ensuring access to sexual reproductive healthcare for Roma families is crucial in improving their living conditions. Helping women make informed choices as they start their families will empower them to gain greater control of their lives and futures. more[...]
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Marine Reserves - Restoring the Oceans
A growing body of scientific evidence that demonstrates, that the establishment of large-scale networks of marine reserves, urgently needed to protect marine species and their habitats, could be key to reversing global fisheries decline. more[...]
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Haiti: Wooden Soldiers for Sale
In Haiti, craftsmen are sculpting wooden UN soldiers at the Brazilian Military base. Located opposite MINUSTAH Headquarters, the place has been turned into a market selling perfectly handcrafted blue helmet soldiers. The constant demand for these special items has helped talented Haitian craftsmen enjoy a bit of economic stability for the moment. more[...]
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Foresight - Migration and Global Environmental Change
The project Migration and Global Environmental Change examines how profound changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years. Sir John Beddington, Professor Richard Black and Neil Adger explain what the final report concludes and what it means for the future of global migration. more[...]
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coral Reefs
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coral Reefs, in a Four-Minute Video. Ocean advocate Céline Cousteau and cartoonist Jim Toomey (creator of Sherman's Lagoon) teamed up with WRI to bring you the VIDEO Coral Reefs: Polyps in Peril . This short animated film tells the story of coral reefs with humor and admiration for these wondrous ecosystems. more[...]
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Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - The Global Compact and the Corporate Citizen
The Global Compact: Creating Sustainable Markets The UN Global Compact was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1999 and put forth the powerful idea that corporate engagement on global issues benefits both business and society over the long run. more[...]
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Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo
Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990. more[...]
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Bangladesh: Climate Change Threatens Livelihood
Climate change continues to threaten food security in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, where rising sea levels and seasonal storms worry farmers. Those living along the country's southern coast fear for their crops and livelihoods. Now the Government of Bangladesh is working with IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development to provide training to farmers with the aim of introducing new techniques to beat the crisis. more[...]
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