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Again for the 2007 edition of Challenge Bibendum several international organisations supported the event by organizing events in the context of Challenge Bibendum 2007. These conferences and dialogues stimulated debate in favour of action for sustainability.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Meeting Mobility for Development – Stakeholder Dialogue in Shanghai November 13, 2007 – 60 participants |
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a coalition of around 200 leading international companies engaged in a number of studies and joint working groups with the aim of establishing the right strategies to develop their business in a sustainable manner, to simultaneously face the growing environmental and social global issues, and then develop advocacy campaigns targeting the relevant institutions at national and international level, to enable the necessary regulations and public-private partnership to be set up.
It was decided to conduct four “stakeholder dialogue” (=SHD) sessions in developing countries around the world, to assess the current state of awareness about mobility as an enabler of development and to gather the expectations and opinions of local stakeholders on how to achieve a better mobility and thus develop economic exchanges.
Michelin co-organized with WBCSD a stakeholder session on November 13th, at Tongji University (Shanghai), just before the start of the 9th Challenge Bibendum.
The agenda of the SHD consisted in an opening address by a keynote speaker, then the consultants summarized the recent facts and trends of the state of mobility in Shanghai and China, then six to eight break-out working groups on themes like safety, health and pollution, urbanization, took place, followed by a wrap-up by Professor PAN Haixiao, expert in Urban Planning at Tongji University.
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World Health Organization (WHO) Meeting Private Companies and Road Safety November 13-14, 2007 – 200 participants |
Road traffic injuries have become one of the leading causes of death and disability globally and hamper economic development. Private sector companies are increasingly being recognized as important stakeholders in road safety. As large fleet owners they can make substantial contributions to road safety efforts through their own road safety strategies and they can also support road safety through their corporate social practices.
Through presentations of case studies and open discussion, the business case was made for all companies to have a fleet safety strategy and support global road safety efforts. The objectives of the meeting was:
• To identify the private sector’s “added value” and increase its involvement in road safety
• To share information on how private sector companies can improve safety on the road for their own employees and their contractors
• To discuss how private sector companies can support national and international road safety initiatives and identify key projects which companies can support
• To explore other steps that could be taken by the international community to increase awareness in road safety efforts by private companies.
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United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Meeting G8’s Global Engineering Partnership – Asian Workstream November ??, 2007 – 80 participants |
Bioenergy is a fast growing market that has seen huge investments over the past years – in 2006 it was 21billion US$ - driven by
(i) the need to reduce CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels to address climate change,
(ii) the wish to strengthen energy security by diversifying sources and producing countries, and
(iii) the development agenda aiming at providing access to energy to the energy poor and additional income for rural communities.
In order to maximize these benefits without creating new environmental or social pressures, bioenergy planning and management is necessary. One way to help planning and management is through a set of internationally accepted set of sustainability principles and criteria.
The International Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuel is an initiative aiming at developing such an assurance standard in a multi-stakeholder approach. A first set of principles has been developed based on existing national and commodity-based schemes. In 4 working groups these principles were further developed by defining criteria. Regional outreach meetings bringing together representatives from different ministries, industry, farmers and civil society contributed to this work.
By early 2008, EPFL aimed to have draft standards developed in conjunction with non-governmental organizations, companies, governments and inter-governmental groups from all over the world.
UNEP, having been entrusted with developing the sustainability work stream within the G8’s Global Bioenergy Partnership, is a member of the Steering Board of the EPFL Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. This position allows to feed the technical findings into the intergovernmental processes relevant to biofuels.
