Today partnership is certainly the key characteristic of activities related to sustainable development.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), are publishing a 120-page booklet giving leaders of Geneva’s international organizations the chance to tell the story of their alliances for sustainable development.
Partnerships for the Planet: Stories from Geneva is being launched in English and in French for World Environment Day 2007 (5 June) and is being made available to business delegations at the Global Compact Leaders Summit taking place in Geneva July 5-6. A website – partnerships4planet.ch – is going online on the same day (5 June) as part of a dynamic publication project enabling the organizations to contribute other stories of their partnerships from Geneva.
Authors of the more than 40 main articles include Mrs Calmy.Rey, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Presidents of WBCSD and of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), environmental leader Achim Steiner, head of UNEP, WTO chief Pascal Lamy and Georg Kell of the UN Global Compact.
The publication highlights the ways in which organizations have attempted to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow’s environmental issues. These include clustering to ensure the concentration of resource in chemicals and waste management and the monumental scientific coordination effort that has been required for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) whose work has justifiably received so much media attention in recent months.
